312 AGARICUS. 



Stropharia. lin.) thick, hollow, equal, fragile, dry, smooth, sometimes fibrillose 

 below the ring, shining white or becoming yellow. Ring medial, 

 membranaceous, white. Gills deeply rounded and sometimes 

 emarginate, ventricose, broad, crowded, pallid then sometimes 

 violaceous-fuscous, sometimes cinereous-fuscous. 



Spores fuscous on a white ground, vinous- or fuscous-purplish on a black 

 ground. In woods the stem is elongated. 



In meadows and borders of thickets. Rare. Aug. 



According to Bulliard, &c., the spores are black. Name ju.eXa?, black; 

 o-wepjiia, seed. Black-spored. Bull. t. 540. /. i. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 413 

 (phaeospermus). Hym. Eur. p. 285. Icon. t. 130. /. 2. Berk. Out. p. 168. 

 B. & Br. n. 1254. C. Hbk. n. 398. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 370. Quel. t. 24. /. 

 3 (pileus white). 



699. A. squamosus Fr. Pileus 2.5-7.5 cent. (1-3 in.) broad, 

 ochraceous, fleshy, thin, hemispherical then flattened, more fre- 

 quently obtuse or gibbous with an obsolete umbo, viscoso-pellic- 

 ulose when moist, not viscous when dry; sprinkled vi\ft\. superficial 

 pilose-fasciculate concentric scales. Stem 7.5-12.5 cent. (3-5 in.) 

 long, 4 mm. (2 lin.) thick, tubular, at first stuffed, soon hollow, 

 slender, equal, tough, pallid upwards, ferruginous below, pulver- 

 ulent above the entire membranaceous distant ring, villous-scaly 

 below. Gills adnate, broad, crowded, plane, cinereous then 

 blackish, white at the edge. 



Below the ring the stem is sometimes A) squarrose with fibrillose reflexed 

 scales ; sometimes B) wholly covered over with dense strigose down. A. Pers. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 2077. f- * B. A. distans Pers. Fl. Dan. t. 2077. /. 2. Var. with 

 pileus fuscous, on trunks of alder. Weinm. p. 243. 



In woods and open ground. Frequent. Sept.-Oct. 



Spores 10 x 7 mk. W.G.S. Name squama, a scale. Scaly. Fr. Monogr. 

 i. p. 414. Hym. Eur. p. 285. Berk. Out. p. 168. t. io./. 6. C. Hbk. n. 399. 

 S. Mycol. Scot. n. 371. 



A. thraustus Kalchbr. Fung. Hung. t. i$. f. 4 exactly resembles 

 A. squamosus or distans Fl. Dan. t. 2077. f. 2 with the easily 

 separating scales of the pileus removed. The description how r ever 

 differs, inasmuch as it is represented as very fragile and hygroph- 

 anous, in which it approaches A. albonitens. 



Spores oblong, ovate, .015 mm. long. Name fyavw, to break. Brittle, 

 easily broken. Rannoch. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 286. B. &> Br. n. 1659. 

 Grevillea, vol. vi. p. 101. S. Mycol. Scot. p. 70. % 



700. A. Percevali B. & Br. Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, ochra- 

 ceous, fleshy, umbonate then flattened, slightly viscid, white- 

 floccose here and there especially at the margin ; flocci at length 



