178 AGARIC ACE^E Stropharia 



colour as P., sienna at base. G. adnexed, ventricose, pale 

 purplish-brown. 

 Dung, sawdust, earth. Sept. 2| X 2^ x J in. Not unlike 818. 



812. S. merdaria Quel. (from its habitat ; merda, dung) a b c. 



P. convexo-plane, smooth, hygrophanous, yellow or brownish 

 then straw-colour ; marg. appendiculate with white V. St. stuffed, 

 floccose, dry, straw-white or brownish, base white-villous. 

 G. adnato-rounded or subdecurrent, purplish-fuscous. 



Gregarious, subcsespitose. Dry dung, road scrapings. Aug. - Oct. 

 l X ij X in. 817 is perhaps form major Fr. of this species. Easily 

 overlooked, colour of pileus exactly that of dry horse-dung. 



813. S. stereoraria Quel. (from the habitat ; stercus, dung) a b c. 



P. hemispherical, smooth, yellow ; mid. darker ; marg. substriate. 



St. stuffed, yellowish. A. viscid. G. very broad, subdistant, 



purple-slate. 

 Dry dung in pastures. May-Nov. i X 3| X & in. 



814. S. semiglobata Quel. (from the half-globose pileus) a b c. 



P. yellowish. St. fistulose, smooth, colour as P., thickly covered 



with transparent gluten below the glutinous A. G. very broad, 



pale purplish, clouded purple-black. 

 Gregarious. Dung, rabbit, horse, in pastures ; common. April-Nov. 



l x 5 X in. Usually smaller than 813, but sometimes twice the size 



of type. 



b. SpintngercE. 



815. S. eaput-medusse Karst. (from a fancied resemblance in the 



pileus to the head of Medusa ; caput, a head) a b c. 



P. expanded, obtusely umbonate, scaly -squarrose, soon naked, 

 pale white umber ; mid. umber ; sc. sepia. St. hollow, white 

 above, squarrose and white umber below superior A., if present. 

 G. ventricose, at length separating free, pallid umber or olive- 

 shaded, spotted ferruginous, edges white. 



Subcsespitose. Woods, pine, about fir-stumps, base of elm ; rare. Sept.- 

 Oct. 3 X 3^ X in. Becoming darker when dry. 



816. S. serobinaeea Sacc. (from the appearance of the pileus as if 



sprinkled with sawdust, scrobis) a b. 

 P. expanded, obtuse, tan; mid. ochreous-tan, or grey or brown 



shaded, clad with minute, fugitive sepia squamules. St. hollow, 



fibrillose, whitish, squamulose below the fugitive A. G. crowded, 



purple. 

 Subcsespitose. On or near stumps, ash ; rare. Aug.-Oct. i$ X 3 X J in. 



Thinner and more graceful than 815. 



817. S. ventrieosa Mass, (from the ventricose gills) a. 



P. expanded, broadly gibbous, even, smooth, subviscid in wet 

 weather, tawny-ochreous, becoming paler. St. hollow, ventricose 

 below with a rooting base, minutely squamulose, pale yellow. 

 A. large, persistent. G. slightly adnexed, ventricose, sub- 

 crowded, purplish-brown. 



Caespitose. On the ground. i X 3 X \ in. Perhaps only a form of 812 

 form major Fr. 



