398 FUNGtia-PLOEA. 



yellowish, less viscid. In this form the ring is incomplete, 

 whereas in the type it is spreading, entire, persistent. 



The essential points of this species are : stem hollow, soft, 

 equal, squamulose or fibrillose, and viscid below the ring at 

 first, more or less hluish-green, ring distant ; pileus fleshy 

 but not compact, campanulato-convex then expanded, sub- 

 Timbonate (in most cases obtuse), with a viscid pellicle, 

 ground yellowish but from the mucus bluish ; gills adnate, 

 plane, 2 lines and more broad, not crowded, soft, whitish, 

 then brown, finally with a purple shade. Sometimes cae- 

 spitose. (Fries.) 



Stropharia albo-cyanea. Desm. 



Pileus -^T-l in. across, rather fleshy, convexo-campanulate, 

 then expanded, umbonate, even, viscid, bluish-green then 

 pale ; gills narrowly adnexed, narrow, pale flesh-colour, then 

 brown, at length purplish ; stem 1-2 in. long, 1 line thick, 

 equal, flexuous, dry, even, whitish or tinged with green, 

 hollow; ring present but incomplete; spores elliptical, 

 brownish-purple, 7-8 x 3-4 /x. 



Agaricus albo-cyaneus, Desmaz., Catal., p. 22 ; Cke., lUustr., 

 pi. 562 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 198. 



On the ground and on dung. The pileus often becomes 

 tinged with straw-colour when dry. Smaller, more slender, 

 and softer than S. aeruginosa, pellicle of the pileus also 

 thinner, and not readily separable. 



Stem hoUow, soft, at length fragile, about 2 in. long, 3— t 

 lines thick, equal, ascending or flexuous, almost naked below 

 the ring, not viscid, white. Eing some lines distant, white, 

 or stained with the brown spores, stem above the ring mealy. 

 Pileus fleshy, convex, then plane, glabrous, always naked 

 (not squamose) and viscid, but the gluten is limpid, not 

 coloured, white and shining when young, then bluish-green. 

 Plesh soft, watery. Gills adnate, thin, scarcely crowded, 

 rather broad, at first white, then rather sinuate, brownish. 

 Sometimes caespitose. Pellicle of the pileus scarcely 

 separable. (Fries.) 



Stropharia Worthingtoni. Fr. 

 Pileus about 1 in. across, flesh thin, campanulate, even, 

 smooth, viscid, yellow; stem 2-3 in. long, 1 line or more 



