408 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



On trunks. Caespitose ; pileus fragile. In Cooke's figure 

 the stem is in every example ttickened at the base. 



Eather ;Caespitose, stem hollow, about 3 in. long, 3 lines 

 thick, eqli^l or sometimes slightly ventricose; sometimes 

 floccoso-sqiiamose, at others fibrillose, white, apex naked (not 

 mealy) ; ring an inch and more from the pileus, thin, 

 white, fugacious. Pileus rather fleshy, thin, fragile, ovate 

 then expanded, 3-4 in. broad, even, glabrous, soft to the 

 touch, brownish then clay-colour. Flesh thin, white, almost 

 absent from the margin. Gills adnate, linear, 1-2 lines 

 broad, crowded, joined behind, brownish, rather deliquescent, 

 edge same coloured, entire. Allied to S. appendiculata. 

 (Fries.) 



Stropharia hypsipoda. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thin, convex then almost plane, 

 glabrous, hygrophanous, brownish-yellow and with the 

 margin slightly striate when moist, pale and with the margin 

 even when dry; gills adnate then seceding, rather distant, 

 pale then dark brown ; stem 3-5 in. high, 2-4 lines thick, 

 equal or slightly thickened at the base, glabrous, whitish, 

 hollow ; ring median, persistent ; spores elliptical, brown, 

 12-14 X 6-7 /J.. 



Agaricus (^Stropharia) hypsipm. Fries, Epic, p. 218; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 201 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 619. 



In damp places amongst grass, moss, &c. Solitary. 

 Fragile. 



Stem fistulose, fragile, 3-4 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, equal, 

 glabrous, white; ring medium, distant from the pileus, 

 membranaceous, white. Pileus rather fleshy, campanulate 

 then convexo-plane, obtuse, 2 in. and more broad, even, 

 glabrous, hygrophanous, livid-brownish when moist, margin 

 slightly striate ; altogether even (not corrugated), clay- 

 colour. Gills adnate, at length separating from the stem, 

 rather distant, white then brown. (Fries.) 



PILOSACE. Fries, (figs. 6, 7, p. 351). 



Sporophore differentiated from the stem ; gills free from 

 the stem ; general and partial veil both absent, hence there 

 is no ring on the central stem ; spores purple-brown. 



