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light yellow^ then livid purple with gluten^ fleshy^ convexo- 

 plane, somewhat umbonatCj pelliculose^ viscid, smooth, 

 slightly striate at margin ; flesh thin, soft, white ; stem 

 fistulose, equal, flexuose, often decumbent, soft, dry, 

 shining-white, silky-fibrillose below the medial, distant, 

 fugacious ring ; gills adnate, with a decurrent tooth, whitish, 

 then becoming fuscous, whitish at the sides when bruised. 



In pastures. Ely, Epping Forest, etc. 



774*. A. (Stropharia) obturatus, Fr. ; pileus light yellow, 

 thick, convex, then plane, obtuse, obsoletely viscid, com- 

 monly dry, even, often rimosely squamulose ; flesh compact, 

 shining white ; stem firm, stuffed, attenuated downwards, 

 even, whitish ; ring superior, deflexed, white ; gills adnate, 

 crowded, plane, white, then purple-umber, often sterile and 

 remaining white. 



On the ground, among grass. Rare. 



775. A. (Stropharia) coronillus, Bull. ; pileus fleshy, 

 hemispherical, then flattened, convex, even, rather viscid, 

 ochraceous, fulvous, then pale ; margin at first whitish floc- 

 cose, flesh white ; stem white, stuft'ed, then fistulose, fibril- 

 lose, attenuated downwards, base equal or slightly bulbous ; 

 ring adhering to the stem, median, sulcato-plicate ; gills 

 crowded, sinuately adnate, whitish, purple-violet, then 

 blackish, edge whitish, pruinose under a lens. 



By waysides. Epping Forest. Odour somewhat of 

 radishes. 



776. A. (Stropharia) melaspermuSj^M//. (p. 168); 1-2 in. 



777. A. (Stropharia) squamosus, F?'. (p. 168) ; 1-3 in. 

 Epping Forest, 



Var. thraustus, Kalchbr. ; more graceful and slender 

 than the typical form ; squamules of pileus deciduous, very 

 fragile and hygrophanous. Epping Forest. 



