Aff&rms.] FUNGI. Ill 



distinguish between this and the following, though they seem to be 

 distinct species. 



293. A. fasciculdris, Huds. {smaller fasciculate Agaric) ; 

 pilaus subcarnose umbonate ochraceous, gills at length green, 

 stem hollow slender. Iliids. Fl. Aug, p. 615. Bolt. t. 29. 

 Soiv. t. 285. With. v. 4. p. 238. Pers. Syn. ;;. 42 1 . Fr. Sijst. 

 Myc. V. \. p. 288. Purt. v. 2 S^^ 8. n. 950. Grev. Fl. Ed. 

 p. 392. Sc. Crypt. Fl. t. 329. Klotzsch, Fung. Germ, exs, 

 n. 21. — A. later itiusy Schceff. t. 49. f. 1 — 5. — A. pulverukntus, 

 Pull. t. 178. 



Koots of trees, gate-posts, &c. Apr. — Nov. Very common. — Gre- 

 garious, densely casspitose. Pileus 2 inches broad, at first conic then 

 expanded, more or less irregular from the tufted mode of growth, sub- 

 carnose, thick in the centre, tawny, the margin thin, yellow, with portions 

 of the veil adhering to it, often stained with the ferruginous-purple 

 sporuh'.'i. Gills green, clouded, adnate with a subdecurrent tooth. 

 Sporules elliptic. Stem 2 — 9 inches high, 2 lines thick, curved and 

 unequal, hollow, fibrillosc or squamulose, yellow, greenish above. 

 Ring stained with the sporules, leaving scarcely any trace upon the 

 stem. Taste very bitter and nauseous. 



Subgenus 32. Psilocybe ; (from -^Ojjc^ nahed, and '/.-oSr,, the 

 head or pileus.) Veil marginal, thin, fiocculose, very fugacious. 

 Stem hollow, rarely stuffed, when young tough, ecjual, subfihrillose, 

 often viscid. Pileus conic or conve.v, then expanded, almost distinct 

 from the stem. Gills rather bread. Substance tough, persistentt 

 7iever deliquescent. 



294. A. stercordrius, Sclium. (dung Agaric) ; pileus obtuse 

 even viscid livid-yellow, gills broad decurrent brown, stem 

 straight fibrillose. Fr. Syst. Myc. v, 1. p, 291.— .4. adnalus, 

 Huds. Fl. Ang.p. G19, 



On horse-dung, near Cobham, Kent, Aug. G, 18:V2. Riv. M. J. 

 BcrhcU'ij. — PUeus A — i inch broad, subcarnose, subumbonate [liviil- 

 yelIow,"ihcn dull-yellow, Fr.) in my specimens umber, almost tawny, 

 slightlv viscid, moiht, shining, quite smooth, even; in infancy, flat, then 

 hemispha-rical, when old quite plane, the margin transparent, slightly 

 notched ; when dry pale, (idls und)cr, mottled with tlic brown-purple 

 sporules, broad, plane with a decurrent tooth, or ventricose ami cmar- 

 ginatc. Sle)n U— 2 inches high, 1 line thick, unibcr, tough, flcxuous, 

 below squanudos'o-fd)rilIose with a little down at the base, above shining 

 but minutely pubescent, striate with the decurrent teeth of the gills, 

 fistulosc, bu't with a few fibrilla' within; Jtrsh dark-unibcr. When 

 young there is a narrow ring. This species reseniblcs A. sfmiglobatns, 



295. A. calldsus, Fr. (conic dung Agaric) ; j)ileu3 conic, gilU 

 adnate ascending black-pur|)le, stem tough smootli pallid. Jr. 

 Si/sf. Myc. V. 1. /). 292. — A. semiglubatus, Sow. t. 240. f 1 — 3. 



Hich dungy [)astin-cs. Aug.— Nov. Not uiu-onunon.— /VAi/.sJ of 

 nn inch liroad, *. high, conico-cntnpamdntc, npicidatoimibonatc, viscid 

 when moist, shining when dry, pale ochraccou?, the margin darker from 



