1 84 AGARIC ACEyE Psilocybe 



840. H. felinum Sacc. (from the tawny pileus, coloured like members 



of the cat genus, Felis) a b. 



P. expanded, smooth, ochreous, biscuit-colour when dry. St. 

 fistulose, shining, striate above, white-floccose at base. V. 

 annulate. G. dove-colour, shaded brown. 



Gregarious, subcoespitose. Parks, roadsides, etc., on the ground. Sept. 

 I X i$ X in. 



841. H. leueotephrum Sacc. (from the colour of the gills ; Gr. lenkos, 



white, tcphros, ash-coloured) a b c. 



P. convexo-expanded, wrinkled, whitish or faint-salmon or 

 ochreous-shaded. St. hollow, striate above, silky-fibrillose 

 below, whitish. A. large. G. adnato-ascending, deep slate- 

 black, edge whitish. 



Csespitose. Base of ash-trees. Sept. -Oct. 2 X 4! X \ in. 



842. H. egenulum Sacc. (from its poor appearance ; egenulns, poor) a. 

 P. hemispherical, broadly umbonate, smooth, white ; marg. finely 



striate. St. fistulose, minutely adpressedly scaly, white, faintly 

 sienna-ochreous below. G. adnate with a tooth, ventricose, 

 purple-umber, edge white. 

 Solitary. On the ground amongst grass. May. if x if X \ in. 



843. H. hydrophilum Quel. (from its hygrophanous habit ; Gr. hudor, 



water, philos, loving) a b. 



P. flat, brittle, smooth, rugose, deep ferruginous-sienna or tawny- 

 ochreous, paler when dry. St. hollow, fibrilloso-mealy, shining, 

 whitish above, faintly sienna below. G. adnexed or adnato- 

 rounded, crowded, exuding drops of water, brown or sienna. 



Crespitose. About and on trunks and stumps. Oct. -Nov. 2 X 4^ X J in. 

 Pileus sometimes 5 in. in diam. Sometimes placed in Bolbitius. 



844. H. pilulseforme Gill, (from the appearance of the pileus, like a 



little ball, pilula) a. 

 P. even, smooth, fuscous, ochreous when dry. St. fistulose, 



white. V. annulate in young examples. G. adnexo-ascending, 



fuscous. 

 Csespitoso-crowded. Mossy trunks ; rare. Autumn, f x i X ^ in. 



XXXVII. PSILOCYBE Quel. 



(From the naked pileus, owing to the usually obsolete veil ; 

 Gr. psilos, naked, kttbe, a head.) 



Veil very fugacious, usually obsolete. Hymenophore confluent 

 with, but heterogeneous from the cartilaginous stem. Pileus more 

 or less fleshy, smooth the margin at first incurved. Stem central, 

 fistulose or stuffed, subcartilaginous, rigid or tough, often rooting, 

 simple. Gills becoming fuscous, brownish or purplish. (Fig. 46.) 



