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HYMENOMYCETES 
greenish. 5 . 3-4 in., slender, fibrillose, yellow within and 
without, curved, more or less wavy, hollow. Taste intensely 
bitter. Poisonous. It has been recorded from Glyncorrwg 
collieries with stems 4 ft. long. “ One of the common 
agarics, abounding at the base of young trees and gate¬ 
posts in a state of decay, and similar situations. The dense 
clusters it forms are frequently composed of several hundred 
plants, and the stems, which accommodate themselves in 
length and direction to their situation, are so crowded and 
compressed at their base as to appear more or less united in 
bundles, whence the origin of the specific name” (Greville). 
H. sublateritius {later, a brick—somewhat brick-coloured) 
is closely allied to the above, but is a larger (P. 2-4 in.) and 
more showy plant, seldom so densely tufted, pileus brick- 
red, stem stuffed 
H. appendiculatus ( appendicula , a small appendage), a 
very common species, forming dense tufts on stumps in 
sum. and ant.; somewhat resembles Psilocybe spadicea, but is 
more robust and rigid, and the veil is totally absent. 
STROPHARIA 
(Gr. strophos, a sword-belt—from a fancied resemblance in 
the ring) 
S. aeruginosa ( cerugo , verdigris), “Verdigris Agaric.” 
Plate XXXVIII. 7. 
P. 2-3 in., convex, then almost plane; somewhat umbonate; 
at first covered with a bluish-green gluten, which disappears, 
leaving it a pale straw colour. When growing in woods, 
the pileus is often ornamented with scattered white squa- 
mules. G. adnate, broad, not crowded, whitish, then brown, 
with a purple shade at maturity. 5 . about 3 in., squamu- 
lose and sticky below the distant ring, smooth above, 
greenish, hollow. Common throughout sum. and aut. on the 
ground, and on rotting wood in hedges, woods, and pastures. 
