370 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



slightly fleshy. Stem flexuons, slightly attenuated upwards, 

 "whitish, shiuing, at first scaly like the pileus, withiu which 

 it is pruinose ; gills iicarlj' plane, ventricose, adnato-arcuate, 

 subdecnrrent, umber-hrown. (Berk.) 



Psilocybe bullacea. Bull. 



Pileiis ^-^ in. across, rather fleshy, hemispherical then 

 expanded, at length nmbonate, glabrous, finely striate to 

 the middle, tawny-bay, clay-colour when dry ; gills adnate, 

 broad, triangular, plane, crowded, rusty -brown ; stem 1-1 .', 

 in. long, 1 line or more thick, equal, fibrillose, pale-yellowish, 

 base brownish, hollow. 



Agaricm (Psilocijhc') huUaceits, Bulliard, Champ,, t. 566, 

 f. 2; Cke., Hdbk., p. 210; Cke., Illustr., pi. 608 b. 



On dung, rich soil, &c. 



Veil at first often evident, sometimes appendiculate from 

 the margin. Stem 1 in. long or a little more, 1 lino thick, 

 yellowish, base rusty-brown. Pileus scarcely reaching an 

 inch across, tawny-bay, clay-colour when dry, when moist a 

 ^^scid pellicle readily separates from the pileus. Gills of 

 themselves livid- white, spores on a black ground purple- 

 lilac. (Fries.) 



Gregarious. Stem hollow, 1 in. or a little more in length, 

 1 line thick, equal or attenuated at the base, cortinated 

 when young, then rather fibrillose, tawny then yellowish, 

 base rusty-brown. Pileus rather fleshy at the disc, margin 

 almost membranaceous, hemispherical, obtuse, then expanded, 

 umbonate, 4-6 lines broad, covered witli a separable viscid 

 pellicle, glabrous, ta^vny-bay, then reddish-ochre, clay- 

 colour when dry ; margin at first even, with fragments of 

 the appendiculate veil, then naked and striate. Gills 

 adnate, minutely decurrcnt, subtriangular, plane, crowded, 

 livid- white then iiisty-brown. Spores purj^le-lilac on a 

 black ground. (Fries.) 



Psilocybe physaloides. Bull. 

 Pileus ^-fj in. across, slightly fleshy, campanulate then 

 expanded, sometimes subumljonate and depressed round the 

 umbo, even, rather viscid, purple-brown, becoming paler ; 

 gills slightly decurrcnt, croAvded, rather broad, rusty-brown ; 

 stem about 1 in. long, and 1 lino thick, equal, rather pliant. 



