317. A. (Psalliota) æruginosus, Curt. ; pileus flesliy, convexo
plane, somewhat umbonate, clothed with green evanescent
mucus ; stem hollow, equal, scaly aud fibrillose below
the ring, tinged with blue ; gills adnate, soft, brown, tinged
with purple.—FI. Land. t. 309; Huss. i. t. 35.
In meadows, etc. Very common. Pileus 3 inches across,
at first scaly with fragments of the veil, dingy-yellow when
the green slime has vanished.
318. A. (Psalliota) albo-cyaneus, Desm. ; pileus fleshy,
thin, umbonate, even, viscid, livid, thén whitish ; stem slender,
hollow, flexuous, even, whitish ; ring incomplete ; gills
attenuato-affixed, whitish flesh-colour, then brownish-purple.
—Pers. Myc. Eur. t. 29. f. 2, 3.
In meadows, and on dung. Not uncommon. Sometimes
with A. æruginosus, of which it is possibly only a variety.
319. A. (Psalliota) melaspermns, Pm//. ; pileus fleshy, convexo
plane, obtuse, soft, even, smooth, slightly viscid ; stem
hollow, equal, smooth, white, as well as the membranaceous
ring ; gills slightly adnexed, ventricose, crowded, pallid, then
violet-black.—Bull. t. 540./. 1.
In meadows and woods. Rare. Coed Cocli. Resembling
A. prmcox, but with different-coloured spores and gills.
320. A. (Psalliota) squamosus, Fr. ; pileus fleshy, thin,
convexo-plane, somewhat viscid, sprinkled with superficial
concentric scales; stem long, slender, subfistulose, villoso-
squamose below the distant ring; gills adnate, crowded, at
length black, edge whitish. (Plate 10, fig. 6.)
In woods. Not common. Varying in the nature and
number of the scales on the stem and pileus. A beautiful
species when well-grown.
321. A. (Psalliota).stereorarius, F r.; pileus slightly fleshy,
hemispherical, then expanded, smooth, even, somewhat viscid.
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as well as the elongated stem, which is at first flocculose, and
contains a distinct pith ; gills adnate, broad, white, then
umber or olive-hlack.
On dung. Northamptonshire. Probably not uncommon.
Pileus yellowish. Often confounded with the following, which
has a fistulöse stem.
322. A. (Psalliota) semiglobatus, Batsch ; pileus slightly
fleshy, hemispherical, even, glutinous, and yellowish, as well
as the fistulöse, slender, smooth, straight stem ; gills broad,
adnate, plane, clouded with black.—Grev. t. 344; Huss. i.
t. 39.
On dung. Extremely common. Said to he poisonous.
Subgenus 23. Hypholoma.—Veil woven into a fugacious web,
which adheres to the margin of the pileus.
323. A. (Hypholoma) sublateritins, Fr. ; pileus fleshy,
convexo-plane, obtuse, discoid, dry, at length smooth ; flesh
compact, dirty-white; stem stuffed, fibrillose, attenuated
downwards, ferruginous; gills adnate, crowded, white, then
dingy-olive.—Huss. i. t. 60.
On old stumps, in woods. Common. Pileus 3 inches
across, brick-red, variegated with yellow.
324. A. (Hypholoma) fascicularis, Huds. ; pileus fleshy,
thin, subumbonate, smooth ; stem hollow, thin, flexuous, fibrillose,
yellow, as well as the flesh of the pileus ; gills adnate,
very crowded, linear, subdeliquescent, sulphur-coloured, then
greenish. (Plate 11, fig. 1.)—Huss. ii. t. 15.
On old stumps, fallen trees, etc. Extremely common. Perhaps
confounded occasionally with A. conissans. Taste bitter.
325. A. (Hypholoma) dispersus, Fr.; pileus slightly fleshy,
campanulate, expanded, obtuse, even, silky near the margin
from the veil ; stem thin, tough, subfistulose, silky, brown at the
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