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veil fragments; flesh whitish or somewhat concolorous, taste mild; gills 

 medium-close or slightly distant, spotted, at first gray-slate color, later gray- 

 black, squarely adnate or with a slight decurrent tooth, 4-8 mm. broad ; stem 

 long and slender, light-brown, pruinose above the annulus, with conspicuous 

 white scales below, equal or slightly enlarged below, hollow, 8-15 cm. long, 

 3-6 mm. thick ; annulus well developed, superior, becoming black above from 

 the spores." 



2. Stropharia acuminata (Scop.) comb. nov. 

 Agaricus acuminatus Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. 2, 2: 447. 1772. 

 Agaricus viridulus Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. Ind. 1. 1774. 

 Agaricus aerugmosus Curt. Fl. Lond. 70. 1788. 

 Stropharia aeruginosa Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. no. 1872. 



Pileus gregarious or subcespitose, fleshy, convex to plane, sub- 

 umbonate, 5-10 cm. broad ; surface verdigris-green, then yellowish, 

 covered with mucus, with separable viscid pellicle, sometimes 

 dotted with scattered white scales, especially on the margin; con- 

 text soft, whitish or tinged with blue; lamellae adnate or sinuate, 

 rather broad, crowded, pallid to grayish, at length purplish-brown, 

 whitish-flocculose on the edges ; spores ovoid or ellipsoid, smooth, 

 subhyaline with a faint yellowish-brown tint under the microscope, 

 7-10 x 4-5/*; stipe equal, hollow, viscid, scaly below the annulus, 

 bluish, 5-8 cm. long, 5-12 mm. thick ; annulus distant, rather 

 evanescent. 



Type locality : Carniola. 



Habitat : On the ground among leaves or in woods ; also in 

 fields in moist regions of Europe. 



Distribution : Rare from New England to South Carolina and 

 west to California; abundant in Europe. 



Illustrations: Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 530, f. 1; Cooke, Brit. 

 Fungi pi. 55 j (555) ; Curt. Fl. Lond. pi. 309; Gill. Champ. Fr. 

 pi. 132 (650) ; Hussey, 111. Brit. Myc. 1 : pi. 35; Pat. Tab. Fung. 

 /. 231; Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. pi. 1; Sow. Engl. Fungi pi. 264; 

 Trans. Wise. Acad. Sci. 17 : pi. 64. 



This very attractive species is rare in the United States, but I 

 have found it abundant in Sweden, England, and other parts of 

 Europe. 



3. Stropharia umbonatescens (Peck) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 



1021. 1887 



Agaricus umbonatescens Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 30 : 

 41. 1878. 



