148 OUTLIXES OF BRITISH FUNGOLOGY. 



lose, broken up into large persistent brown scales, areolate 

 in centre ; margin very obtuse, thick, covered with pyra- 

 midal warts ; flesh turning red when cut ; stem solid, stuffed 

 with delicate threads, at first nearly equal, at length swollen 

 in centre and attenuated at base, fibrillose and areolate 

 below, nearly smooth near the pileus ; ring thick, large, 

 deflexed, broken, areolato-verrucose beneath ; gills free, 

 brownish flesh-colour. 



Under oaks. Bodelwyddan. Esculent. 



759. A. (Psalliota) arvensis, Schceff. (p. 166) ; 3-6 in. 

 Epping Eorest. 



Var. villditicus, Brand.; acquiring a large size audvery scaly. 

 On the ground. 



Vai'. purpurascens, Cke. ; pileus becoming tinged with 

 purple. 



In woods, etc. 



760. A. (Psalliota) pratensis, Schceff. ; pileus 2-3 in., 

 fleshy, ovoid, then expanded, becoming smooth or squamu- 

 lose, whitish, then cinereous ; stem stuff'ed, thickened at 

 the base, naked ; ring median, simple, deciduous ; gills free, 

 narrow, acute, rounded behind, cinereous, at length brown. 



In pastures and woods. Odour and taste pleasant. 



761. A. (Psalliota) cretaceus, Fr. (p. 167) ; 3 in. 

 Epping Forest. 



762. A. (Psalliota) campestris, L. (p. 165) ; 3 in, Epping 

 Eorest. 



Var. hortensis, Cke. ; pileus fibrillose or squamulose, 

 brownish. 



= Var. elongatus and var. Buchanaui. 

 These are the cultivated forms of hot beds. 

 Var. costatus, Fr. ; pileus sulcate, repand. 

 In woods. 



