In rich pastures. Common. Esculent. [United States.]
var. p r a ten sis. Vitt. Distinguished by tbe small rufous
scales of tbe pileus, and the flesb having a slight pink tinge.
In pastures. Kings Cliffe. E. Bergbolt.
var. s ilv ic o la . Vitt. Pileus smooth, shining ; stem elongated,
somewbat bulbous.—Fr. Epicr. p. 213. Krombh. t. 23, f .
8. Paul.t. 133.
In woods.
var. h o z ten sis. Auct. Pileus fibrillose or squamulose,
brownish, var. elongatus, Gard. Chron .1 8 6 0 ,p .1061, f g . var.
Buchanani, Gard. Chron.1860, p . 1039, fg .
This is tbe cultivated form.
var. v a p o ia iiu s . Otto. Pileus even, with a brown pilose
coat, which also covers tbe stem and leaves transverse fragments
thereon as it elongates.—Krombh. t . 26, f . 11,15. Paul.t. 132.
Letell. t. 659.
var. lu f e s c e n s . Berh. A distinct variety, which is rufous,
like A. vaccinus, and whose flesb turns of a bright red when
bruised. Tbe gills are a t first perfectly wbite.—Berh. Outl. 1. 10,
f .3 .
Pileus 2-5 iu. broad, at first convex, then plano-convex, white, silky, or
clothed with reddish-brown, adpressed fibrillae, oolleoted into little fascicles,
cuticle easily separating from the flesh, projecting beyond the gills
and often curled back, fleshy; flesh firm, thick, white, more or less stained
with reddish-brown, especially when bruised ; gills very unequal, at first of
a beautiful pink, free, obtuse, and sometimes forked behind, broad iu the
middle, at length dark, mottled with the brownish purple, minute, sub-
elliptic spores, the edge white and minutely denticulate.^ Stem 2-3 in. high,
J - f in. thick, nearly equal or suh-bulbous, white, beautifully but minutely
silky, furnished with a thick spongy ring, generally above the middle, firm,
when quite young there is a fine silky universal veil.—M. J. B. Spores
•00032 X -0002 in .— W. 6 . S. (P I. V., f . 26.)
3 9 1 . A g a z icu s (P sa llio ta ) s ilv a t ic u s .
Psalliota.”
Sehæff. “ Wood
Pileus flesby, tbin, campanulate, tben expanded, gibbous,
fibrillose or squamulose ; stem bollow, unequal, wbitisb ; gills
free, crowded, ratber tbin, dry, reddisb, tben brown.—Fr. Epicr.
73.214. Schoeff. t. 212. Krombh. t. 23, f . 9,10. Berh. Outl. p. 167.
In woods. [Cinoinnati.]
Pileus brownish, smell strong. Stem longer and more slender than in A.
eamTjesiris, 3 in. and more long, Jiu . thick. Ring distant, variable. Pileus
3 in. broad, floccose, scaly, disc at length smooth, suh-ferruginous, scales
rufescent or tawny ; margin cracked. Spores'00017 X ’00025 in.
3 9 2 . A g a z icu s (P sa llio ta ) e lv e n s is .
Psalliota.”
B . 4 Br. “ Tufted
Cæspitose. Pileus from sub-globose to bemispberical, fibrillose,
broken up into large persistent brown scales, areolate in tbe
ceutre, margin tbick, covered witb pyramidal warts ; stem fibrillose
below, ring very large, areolato-verruoose beneatb ; gills
free, brownish flesb colour.—B. 4 Br. Ann. N .H . 1865, no. 1009.
Under oak trees. Sept. Bodelwyddan.
Pileus at first sub-glohose, then hemispherical, 6 in. or more across, margin
very obtuse ; stem at first nearly equal, at length swollen in the centre,
and attenuated at the base, 4 in. high, 2 in. thick in the centre, fibrillose
and areolate below, nearly smooth within the pileus, solid, stuffed with delicate
threads ; ring thick, very large, deflexed, broken here and there ; gills
J in . broad, free, of a browuish-flesh colour; flesh of pileus j in. thick in
centre, turning red when cut. Taste and smell excellent.—B. & Br.
Sub-Gen. 27. P i l o s a c e , Er.
Agrees in structure witb Pluteus, and bas tbe bymenopbore
distinct from tbe ringless stem. Tbere are no British representatives.
(PI. V .,fg 27.)
Sub-Gen. 28. S t e o p h a r i a , Fr. Monog. Hymen, i. p. 409.
Spores intense bright purple-brown, brown or slate-colour ;
veil, if present, universal, superficial, scaly, or viscid ; stem confluent
behind, and bomogeneous with tbe hymenophore ; gills
not free, and rounded.
Hab. Terrestrial or epiphytal. (P I. V .,f. 28.)
Formerly included under Psalliota ; but now separated by Fries on acoount
of the different habit, different attaohment of the gills, and other characters ;
the species, of which none are edible, have various habits, but most are
epiphytal, as are the analogues. Stropharia corresponds with Armillaria
and Pholiota.— W. O. S.
3 9 3 . A g a z icu s (Stzophazla) J e zd on i. Berk. “ Jerdon’s
Stropharia.”
Pileus campanulate, obtuse, umbonate, flesby, ochraceous, dry,
adorned with superficial wbite evanescent scales, cuticle not
separating ; stem silky or squamulose, hollow ; ring superior ;
gills pallid, then brown, transversely striate.—B. 4 B r.Ann. N.H .
no. 913, t. x iv ./. 2.
On fir stumps. Nov. Mossburnford.