AGAEICINI. 147 



In woods. Oct. 



The veil, though fugacious, at once distinguishes it from other species, with 

 which it might easily be confounded. Pileus when fresh usually bay, 

 when dry tawny, about H in. broad, flesh whitish. Stem 2 in. long, 1-2 lin. 

 thick, at first white, then becoming ferruginous, slightly mealy above. 



Sub-Gen. 30. Psilocybe, Fr. S. M. i. p. 289. 



Spores purple, purple-brown, or slate-colour ; veil obsolete (or 

 in a few species fugacious, wben present not forming a ring) ; 

 pileus glabrous, at first incurved; stem cartilaginous, ringless, 

 confluent with but heterogeneous from the hymenophore. 



Hab. All grow on the ground. (FL F.,/. 30.J 



The species are almost all gregarious, caespitose, inodorous, with fugitive 

 colouring, and not edible. Fries divides the sub-genus into two groups, the 

 tenacious and the fragile. PsHocyhe corresponds with Collyhia, Le^tonia., and 

 N'avA:oria. 



A. Tenaces — pileus pelliculose. 



414. Agaricus (Psilocybe) areolatus. Klot^cli. "Patchy 



Psilocybe." 



Pileus somewhat fleshy, convex, clothed with minute fibrils ; 

 cuticle cracking into nearly square patches ; stem fistulose, fibril- 

 lose, dirty white ; gills adnate, umber, at length black ; edge 

 white.— ^^r/j. Outl.p. 172, no. 33G. Eng. Fl. \.p. 112. 



In gardens. May — Oct. Glasgow. 



Pileus ochraceous or brown, l|-3 in. bread, convex, veil between fibrous 

 and membranaceous, fugacious; gills 2-3 lines broad, the edge white, and 

 beaded with drops of moisture. Stem 2-3 in. high, 3 lines thick, generally 

 thickened at the base, fibrillose, dirty white. — Klotsch. Spores "OOOoo X 

 •OOOai in. 



415. Agaricus (Psilocybe) comptulus. B.^^ Br. "Sprinkled 



Psilocybe."' 



Pileus between conic and campanulate, at length expanded, 

 palhd, then pallid ochraceous, striate ; margin sub-crenulate ; 

 stem flexuose, shining, silky, smooth ; gills distant, ventricose, 

 adnate, and rosy-umber, — B. ^- Br. Ann. N.H. no. 917, t. 14,/. 4. 



In woods, amongst grass. Oct. CoUyweston. 



Pileus 1-H in., between conical and campanulate, at length expanded, 

 pallid, acquiring a pallid ochraceous tint as it loses its moisture, sprinkled 

 with shining particles, scarcely rugulose, striate; marf:in somewhat crenu- 

 late, at first inflexed ; stem 2 in. high, 1-1^ line thick, flt-xuose, undulate, 

 smooth, but with a shining, silky aspect, not striate above, below acquiring 

 a very pale rafous tinge ; gills distant, ventrico.^e, broad, adnate, umber, 

 with a rosy tinge. Spores umber-brown. — B. dc Br. 



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