374 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Agaricus (Psilociihe) canohrunneus, Grios, Syst. Myc. i. p. 

 294 '; Fries, Ilym. Eur., p. 302. 



On the naked ground in sunny places, and on scorched 

 ground. 



Solitary. Firm, rigid, pilous flesh-colour, Avhen dry pale 

 clay-colour. 



Solitary or laxly gregarious, amongst the most robust and 

 firm in this genus. Stem rigid, hollow, 2 in. and more long, 

 3-5 lines thick, equal, base rooting, squamulose, whitish. 

 Veil not seen even in the earliest stage of development. 

 Pileus truly fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, 2-3 in. broad, 

 even, glabrous, from its rigidity sometimes cracked in an 

 areolate manner, rather viscid when moist, watery pallid or 

 brownish flesh-colour, pale clay-colour when dry. Flesh 

 ihickish, white. Gills almost free, ventricose, 3 lines 

 broad, rather crowded, distinct, pallid then purple-brown. 

 (Fries.) 



Psilocybe spadicea. Fr. 



Fasciculate, pileus rigid, 1-3 in. across, convex, obtuse 

 then more or less plane, glabrous, even, moist, hygrophanous, 

 bay-brown when moist, pallid when dry ; gills rounded 

 behind and adnexed, dry, crowded, about 2 lines broad, pale 

 then rosy-brown ; stem 2-4 in. long, rather tough, 2-3 lines 

 thick, equal, whitish, smooth, apex even, hollow ; spores 

 elliptical, brown, 9 x 4 ya. 



Agaricus (Psilocj/he') spadicciis. Fries, E^Dicr., p. 225 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 211 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 610. 



On the grovmd amongst leaves, at the base of trunks, &c. 



Rather caespitose. Veil entirely absent from the first. 

 Stem firm, cartilaginous (in moist places on the ground, 

 softer). I'ilcus couvt-xo-plane, oven, at first glabrous, rigid, 

 rough with minute points, bay-umber, becoming pale when 

 dry, flesh whitish, margin slightly incurved, when dry 

 often broken up, especially var. ^ulijceplialus. Gills at length 

 either cinnamon (in dry Aveather), or umber. (Fries.) 



Var. hygrophilus. Large, pilous brown then clay-colour ; 

 stem 4-(J in. long, rather fusiform and rooting, gills emargi- 

 nate with a long decurrent line down the stem, at length 

 umbcr-brown. 



Fries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 29G ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 212. 



