CLASSIFICATION 327 



S. melasperma.—Csip 1-2 in. across, convex, then plane or flat, 

 slightly viscid, then dry and pale straw-colour ; gills deeply sinuate, 

 becoming greyish black ; stem 1-2 in. long, apex striate, white, 

 ring white, near top of stem. 



Differs from 5. coronilla in striate apex of stem I 



On the ground in pastures. 



S. squamosa. — Cap i|-3 in. across, becoming almost flat, viscid, 

 with concentrically arranged superficial scales, yellowish tan ; gills 

 blackish, edge whitish ; stem 3-4 in. long, rusty and scaly below 

 the distant ring, whitish and smooth above. 



On the ground in woods. 



var. thraustus. — Scales soon disappearing from the cap. 



var. aurantiaca. — Cap orange or brick-red. 



** Growing on dung. Ring often incomplete. 



S. luteo-nitens. — Cap up to i in. across, conico-campanulate, 

 viscid, yellow, edge squamulose ; gills greyish black ; stem i-i| in. 

 long, whitish, ring imperfect. 



On dung. 



S. merdaria. — Cap up to i in. across, soon almost flat, dingy 

 yellowish brown or pale bay ; gills yellowish, then umber ; stem 

 about I in. long, flocculose, pale, ring torn, fugacious. 



On dung. Gregarious or somewhat tufted. 



5. stercoraria. — Cap about i in. across, hemispherical, then ex- 

 panded and discoid, yellow ; gills blackish olive, sometimes brown- 

 ish purple ; stem 4-5 in. long, whitish ^^•ith a j^ellow tinge, flocculose 

 below the imperfect ring. 



Close to 5. semiglohata, differing in having a distinct cord-like 

 pith in the stem, and by the flocculose stem when young, and the 

 flat cap at maturity. 



On dung. 



5. semiglohata (PI. XXIV, fig. i). — Cap up to | in. across, per- 

 sistently subglobose, viscid, pale yellow ; gills greyish, clouded 

 with black ; stem 3-5 in. high, smooth, viscid, yellowish, ring 

 imperfect. 



On dung. 



2. Cap without a viscid pellicle, adpressed, fibrillose. 



S. caput-medusce. — Cap 1-2 in. across, expanded, often with de- 

 pressed spots, squamulose, umber-brown at the centre, rest dingy 

 ochre ; gills pale umber ; stem 2-4 in. long, with concentric rings 

 of spreading squamules below the ring, smooth above, whitish. 

 In pine woods near the roots of trunks. Tufted. 



S. scobinacea. — Cap 1-2 in. across, expanded, gibbous, striate, 



covered with adpressed, blackish squamules which may disappear, 



brownish, edge greyish violet ; gills reddish white, then puri)lish, 



edge crenulate ; stem 3-4 in. long, white, fil-)rillose, ring fugacious. 



On trunks. Tufted. 



