268 HYPHOLOMA 



804. H. egenulum B. & Br. (= Hypholoma appendiculatum Bull. sec. 



Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 589, t. 605, fig. A. Egenulum, poor. 



P. 3-4 cm., watery white, snow white when dry, fleshy, hemispherical, 

 then expanded, umbonate, smooth; margin finely striate, appendicu- 

 late with the white veil. St. 4-5 cm. x 3 mm., white, attenuated up- 

 wards, or nearly equal, minutely adpressedly scaly. Gills purplish 

 timber, edge white, adnate, with a tooth, slightly ventricose, sub- 

 distant. Flesh white, thick at the disc. Spores brown purple. Solitary. 

 Amongst grass. May. Eare. 



805. H. pilulaeforme (Bull.) Fr. (= Hypholoma hydrophilum Bull, 

 sec. Quel.) Bull. Hist. Champ. Fr. t. 112. 



Pilula, a little ball;/orme, shaped. 



P. 1-2 cm., fuscous, dingy ochraceous when dry, submembranaceous, 

 globose, then convexo-plane, obtuse, smooth; margin pale, striate, 

 slightly appendiculate with the white veil. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 2 mm., 

 white, equal, flexuose, often slightly thickened at the base. Cortina 

 white, membranaceous, often forming a ring, fugacious. Gills white, 

 then cinereous, at length fuscous, adnexed, easily separating, narrow, 

 2-3 mm. broad, thin, crowded. Flesh yellowish, thin. Spores cinereous 

 purple, elliptical, 6-8 x 4//,. Densely caespitose. On stumps, and 

 buried wood. Woods, and pastures. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



806. H. hydrophilum (Bull.) Fr. (= Bolbitius hydrophilus (Bull.) Fr. 

 Hym. Eur.) Cke. Illus. no. 606, t. 610, as Psilocybe spadicea Fr. 



vSwp, water; (j)i\ov, loving. 



P. 3-6 cm., date brown when moist, tawny, or tan colour when dry, 

 fleshy, globose, then convex and expanded, pruinose, striate near 

 the margin when moist, wrinkled when dry; margin often undulate, 

 appendiculate with the white, fugacious veil. St. 5-10 cm. x 4-8 mm., 

 white, becoming somewhat ferruginous downwards, rigid, but fragile, 

 equal, or attenuated slightly upwards, curved, fibrillose at the base. 

 Gills whitish, then date brown fuscous, adnate, ventricose, crowded, 

 often distilling hyaline drops. Flesh pallid, white when dry, very thin 

 at the margin. Spores ferruginous purple, elliptical, 5-6 x 3-3-5/A, 

 1-2-guttulate. Cystidia cylindrical, ventricose, often constricted 

 below the apex, apex obtuse, 8-9/z in diam., 25-28 x 12-14/z. 

 Densely caespitose. Stumps in woods, and on sawdust. Aug. Dec. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



H. fibrillosum (Pers.) Quel. = Psathyra fibrillosa (Pers.) Fr. 

 H. nolitangere (Fr.) Quel. = Psathyra nolitangere Fr. 

 H.fatuum (Fr.) Quel. = Psathyra fatua Fr. 

 H. ammophilum (Mont.) Quel. = Psilocybe ammophila (Mont.) Fr. 

 H. gossypinum (Bull.) Quel. = Psathyra gossypina (Bull.) Fr. 



