Harper—Species of Pholiota and Stropharia. 1017 
scaly above the annulus, whitish or yellowish. Annulus mem¬ 
branaceous with a ragged margin, white floccose below and 
striate with even ridges on the upper surface. Spores purple 
brown, 6—8x10—12^. 
Note —Stropharia hardii, Atk. in Hard’s Mushrooms, Edible and 
Otherwise, pp. 321-322, is based on plants similar to Stropharia depilata 
if we may judge from the description and photograph. The size, pale 
bright ochraceous pileus and transversely floccose stem suggest Stro¬ 
pharia depilata but the spores are only 3—5x5—V and it is not said 
whether the pileus is viscid or dry though it appears viscid in the 
photograph. 
Stropharia aeruginosa, (Curt.) PI. LXIV. 
The plants photographed grew on the ground in a grassy place 
by a brush pile, Eeebish Island, Mich., October, 1911. They 
are smaller than Stropharia depilata but have a similar thick 
glutinous pellicle on the pileus and curly white scales on the 
stem. The gluten is bright green as in some species of Hygro- 
phorus but the plants become white or stained with red or yellow 
as the dry. 
Pileus convex to plane or umbonate, smooth or squamosa, 
even on the margin, covered with a thick green gluten which 
stains reddish or yellowish or fades to white in drying. Flesh 
watery white. Lamellae close, ventricose, broadly notched 
and linear decurrent on the stem, whitish turning to pink and 
dark brown mottled, Stem even or slightly enlarged and white 
myceloid at the base, smooth or silky above the annulus, floccose 
scaly below, greenish or bluish becoming white or more or less 
cinereous at the base. Annulus fibrous, stained with the spores, 
Spores dark brown with a rusty rather than a purple tinge 
4—5x8—1 CP. 
Note —Stropharia alho-cyanea, Desmaz occurs in our region. It is 
smaller than Stropharia aeruginosa with a green viscid pileus but a 
white dry stem. It agrees with Stropharia aeruginosa in hahit and 
place of growth. The distinguishing marks are the small size and 
white dry stem. This is Stropharia pseudocyanea in Morgan’s Re¬ 
vision of North American species of Stropharia Jour. Myc. April, 1908, 
p. 74. 
Stropharia micropoda, Morg., Jour. Myc. April, 1908, p. 73, was 
described from plants growing subcaespitose on dead branches of oak 
and hickory at Preston, Ohio. The plants are about the size of Stro¬ 
pharia albo-cyanea and have the pileus covered with similar green 
