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=Stropharia=. Gills adnate dark brown or purplish.

=Anellaria=. Gills adnexed, grey and clouded with the black spores.

++ Ring very imperfect or absent; gills decurrent.

=Gomphidius=. Gills subgelatinous.

+++ Gills not decurrent, not adhering laterally when young, not deliquescent.

=Hypholoma=. Gills sinuate, dark brown or blackish-purple; veil often hanging in fragments from edge of pileus.

=Panaeolus=. Edge of pileus extending beyond the gills, pileus not striate.

=Psathyrella=. Pileus sulcate or striate.

=Psathyra=. Stem fragile; edge of pileus straight when young.

=Psilocybe=. Stem tough; edge of pileus incurved when young.

++++ Gills adhering laterally when young, deliquescing at maturity.

=Coprinus=. Ring and volva present in some species, ring alone others, both absent in others; gills adnate, adnexed or free.

+++++ Flesh of pileus entirely absent, the gills radiating from the stem free and unconnected by flesh above.

=Montagnites=. Volva present, buried in the ground.

CHITONIA, Fr.

=rubriceps=, Cke. and Mass. P. 2-3 cm. campan. then exp. umb. reddish-brown; g. free, purplish-brown; s. 6-7 cm. hollow, paler than p., volva large, free edge torn; sp. 12 x 6.

Introduced along with living plants into Kew Gardens.

Unless the small volva is noticed, this fungus will be considered as a sp. of Coprinus.

AGARICUS, L.

A. EDULES. Large, fleshy.

=augustus=, Fr. P. 8-14 cm. globose then exp. very obtuse, disc even, rest fibrillosely-scaly, pale yellow-brown; g. crowded, narrow, fuscous, remote from stem; s. 8-14 cm. solid, ring superior, large, areolately squamulose below; sp. 6 x 3.5. Edible.

=peronatus=, Mass. P. hemispher. then exp. dull ochre, densely scaly; g. distant from stem, crowded, purple-brown; s. 10-14 cm. equal, marginately bulbous, hollow, with large spreading white scales up to broad spreading ring; sp. 6 x 4. Edible.

Differs from A. augustus in hollow, peronate stem.

=elvensis=, B. and Br. P. 9-15 cm. subglobose then exp. fibrillose, broken up into large persistent brown scales, edge warted; g. crowded; s. 8-12 cm. narrowed at base, fibrillose, ring large, thick, warted below; sp. 8 x 4. Edible.

=arvensis=, Schaeff. P. 10-24 cm. conico-campan. then exp. smooth, even, white often stained yellow, flesh white, unchangeable; g. close to stem, narrow; s. 6-12 cm. hollow, whitish, floccosely stuffed, ring pendulous, double, exterior radiately split; sp. 6 x 4. (9-11 x 6 Sacc.) Edible.

var. purpurascens, Cke. Smaller than type. P. tinged purple.

Differs from Ag. xanthodermus in the persistently white flesh.

=xanthodermus=, Genev. (= Ag. flavescens, Roze.) P. 6-10 cm. fleshy, convex, even, glabrous, greyish-white, cuticle becoming yellowish when touched, and the white flesh changing to yellow when broken; g. free, sinuate, pale rose then grey, finally purple-brown; s. cylindrical, stuffed, ring thin, flesh deep yellow at base, rest white; sp. ----.