STEOPHAEIA. 401 



On the ground in pastures, &o. 



Pilous yellow, hardly pelliculose, not glutinous, and firm 

 like the stem. 



Distinguished from S. inunota and S. albocyanea by the 

 compact flesh and stouter nature. Stem firm, stufied, short, 

 1-1 J in. long, 3 lines and more thick, attenuated downwards, 

 even, white, not squamose; ring superior, deflexed, white. 

 Pileus fleshy, convex then plane, obtuse, obsoletely viscid, 

 commonly dry, yellow, even, but often cracked into squa- 

 niules; flesh compact, white. Gills adnate, without a decur- 

 rent tooth, crowded, plane, white then purple-umber. (Fries.) 



Stropharia melasperma. Bull. (fig. 8, p. 351.) 

 Pileus 1-2 in. across, fleshy, convex then plane and often 

 slightly depressed at the centre, soft, even, slightly viscid, 

 soon dry, the cuticle often broken into patches, centre straw- 

 colour, margin whitish; gills adnexed, deeply sinuate, 

 crowded, ventricose, 2-3 lines broad, whitish, then greyish- 

 violet, at length greyish-black ; stem 1-2 in. long, nearly 

 equal, silky-fibrillose, often curved at the base, becoming 

 smooth, apex striate, stuffed, white ; ring white, rather close 

 to the pileus, deciduous ; spores elliptical, brownish-purple, 

 10x6 /i. 



Agarieus melaspermus, Bulliard, Champ., tab. 540, fig. 1 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 198 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 636. 



On the ground in pastures, &c. Flesh of pileus white, of 

 the stem pale straw-colour. Eesembling S. coronilla in 

 general appearance and stature, but distinguished by the 

 equal stem with the apex striate. 



Stropharia squamosa. Pr. 



Pileus l|-3 in. across, flesh thin, convex then almost piano, 

 often wavy, rather viscid, with scattered concentrically 

 arranged, superficial floccose scales, yellowish-tan ; gills 

 adnate, crowded, 2-3 lines broad, brown then blackish, edge 

 whitish ; stem 3-4 in. long, 2-4 lines thick, tough, straight 

 or slightly flexuous, villoso-squamose below the distant ring, 

 smooth above, whitish, i'erruginous towards the base, partly 

 hollow; spores elliptical, 12 x 6 /*. 



Agarieus (Stropharia) squamosus, Pries, Syst. Myc. i. 

 p. 284; Cke., Hdbk., p. 199; Cke., Illustr. pi. 563. 



On the ground in woods, &c. 



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