152 OUTLINES OF BEITISII FUNGOLOGY. 



Var. aurantiacus, Cke. ; pileus orange or brick-red. 

 Among grass. 



778. A. (Stropharia) Percevali, B. and Br. ; pileus 

 2 in., ochraceous, fleshy, umbonate^ then flattened, slightly 

 viscid, white-floccose chiefly at margin, flesh dull umber ; 

 flocci deciduous ; stem attenuated upwards, hollow and 

 pallid above, umber within, transversely scaly, rooting ; 

 ring narrow, more or less persistent ; gills adfixed, very 

 distant, white, then somewhat cinereous, at length pallid 

 umber. 



On sawdust. Wallington, Northumberland. 



779. A. (Stropharia) Worthingtonii, Fr. ; pileus 1 in., 

 yellow, slightly fleshy, campanulate, even, smooth, viscid ; 

 stem fistulose, slender, flexuose, smooth, dark blue ; ring 

 incomplete, distant ; gills adnate, broad, brown-cinnamon. 



In pastures. Epping Forest, etc. 



** Merdarii. — Growing on dung, lihuj often incomjilete. 



780. A. (Stropharia) luteo-nitens, Fr. ; pileus 1-2 in., 

 fleshy, thin, conical, campanulate, umbonate, viscid, yellow ; 

 margin squamulose, stem hollow, even, pruinose above the 

 distant ring ; gills adnexed, ventricose, cinereous, becoming 

 blackish. 



On sawdust, dung, and humus. 



781. A. (Stropharia) merdarius, Fr. ; gregarious ; pileus 

 2 in., yellow, then straw colour, fleshy, at first obtusely 

 campanulate, then convexo-plane, gibbous, smooth, pellicu- 

 lose, moist, hygrophanous, slightly viscid, margin thin, 

 deflexed, even ; flesh white ; stem tough, stuffed with a 

 pith, equal, somewhat flexuose, flocculoso-villous and 

 slightly silky, dry, straw-white, white-villous at base, striate 

 at apex from the decurrent teeth of gills ; ring torn, 



