. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. PRATELLI. 305 up into large persistent brown, not fusco-citrinous scales, areolate Psaliota. in the centre ; margin very obtuse, thick, covered with pyramidal warts; flesh 18 mm. (^ in.) thick in the centre, turning red when cut. Stem 10 cent. (4 in.) long, 5 cent. (2 in.) thick in the centre, solid, stuffed with delicate threads, at first nearly equal, at length swollen in the centre and attenuated at the base, fibrillose and areolate below, nearly smooth within the pileus. Ring thick, very large, deflexed, broken here a
. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. PRATELLI. 305 up into large persistent brown, not fusco-citrinous scales, areolate Psaliota. in the centre ; margin very obtuse, thick, covered with pyramidal warts; flesh 18 mm. (^ in.) thick in the centre, turning red when cut. Stem 10 cent. (4 in.) long, 5 cent. (2 in.) thick in the centre, solid, stuffed with delicate threads, at first nearly equal, at length swollen in the centre and attenuated at the base, fibrillose and areolate below, nearly smooth within the pileus. Ring thick, very large, deflexed, broken here and there, areolato-verrucose beneath. Gills free, 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, of a brownish A'A'A". Agariciis (Psa/iota) cain- pestris. One-third natural size. Caespitose. Taste and smell excellent. Under oak-trees. Bodelwyddan, 1863. Sept. Name—from the district bordering on the Elwy. B. & Br. n. 1009. C. Hbk. n. 392. /•>. Hym. Eur. p. 278. 686. A. arvensis Schasff.—Pileus cent. (3-4 in.) and more broad, whitish, fleshy, globoso-campanulate then flattened, obtuse, flocculoso-niealy when young, then slightly silky even or squamu- lose. dry ; flesh thick, compact, at length softer, white, unchange- able. Stem cent. (3 in.) and more long, cent, (i in.) and more thick, hollow, with a lax floccose pith, but stout, thickened at the base, obsoletely marginato-bulbous when young, even, smooth, white. Ring superior, large, pendulous, formed as it were of two growing togetJier, the interior one membranaceous, uniform, the exterior one thicker and shorter, somewhat free at the circicmference, radiately split. Gills free, approximate, ventricose, broader in front, always arid, white, at length reddisJi-fuscous. The gills remain long pallid, are never dark red as in A. pratensis, and never deliquescent. In meadows and borders of fields, &c. Common. Spring, Autumn. Known as the " Horse-Mushroom.'1 "When young and fresh it is delicious,
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