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mous size. A coarse, but wholesome species, often turning 

 yellow when l)ruised. There is also a sealy ta^vny form. 



313. A. (Psalliota) cretaceus, Fr. ; pileus fleshy, campa- 

 nulate, then couvexo-plane, even, nearly smooth or rivulose ; 

 stem hollow, equally attenuated, even, white; ring simple, 

 reflexed, and again ascending ; gills remote, broader in front, 

 for a long time white. (Plate 10, fig. 5.) 



In meadows and stoves. Not common. Generally pure 

 white. The stem is suidc into the substance of the pilous so 

 as to make the gills remote. At first sight looks much like a 

 Lepiota, as, for example, A. naucinus. 



314. A. (Psalliota) silvaticus, Schtbff. ; pileus fleshy, thin, 

 campanulate, then expanded, gibbous, fibrillose or squamose; 

 stem hollow, at first stuffed with delicate threads, unequal, 

 dirty- white ; gills free, crowded, thin, dry, reddish, then 

 hrown.—Schceff. t. 242. 



In woods. Not uncommon. Pileus brownish. Smell 

 strong. 



315. A. (Psalliota) echinatus, Roth; pileus slightly fleshy, 

 campanulate, then expanded, obtuse, at first densely pulveru- 

 lent, then scaly; stem fistulose, equal, floceoso-pulverulent 

 below the ring ; gills free, crowded, blood-red. 



On peat-beds, in gardens. Rare. Milton, Northampton- 

 shire, etc. Pileus about 1^ inch across, of a dingy smoky 

 purple, as is also the stem. Spores sometimes colourless. A 

 most curious species. 



316. A. (Psalliota) versicolor, With. ; pileus fleshy, cou- 

 vexo-plane, scurfy, scales of the disc crowded ; stem spongy, 

 bulbous, dirty-white, inclining to brown ; ring persistent ; 

 gills decurrent, pallid, then reddish-])rown. 



Edgbaston. Pileus greenish-brown. This has not been 

 recognized since the time of AVithcring. 



