* NAUCORIA. PSILOCYBE 361 



1143. N. effugiens Quel. (= Crepidotus EuU Berk. sec. Quel.) Quel. 

 Jur. et Vosg. n, t. 2, fig. 3. Effugiens, escaping notice. 



P. 5-8 mm., ochraceous, then pale olivaceous greyish, convex, then 

 plane, globose, diaphanous, covered with shining crystalline grains. 

 St. 5x1 mm., cream olivaceous, curved, mealy, base villose. Gills 

 cream colour, then brown, or olive, sinuato-free, or decurrent by a 

 tooth. Flesh olivaceous, thin. Spores brown, broadly elliptical, 

 9-10 x 5-6/A, with a large central gutta. Dead twigs and branches 

 of pear. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



Spores purple, or fuscous. 



Psilocybe Fr. 

 (^4X09, naked; KV@r), head.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular; margin at first incurved. Stem central, 

 cartilaginous. Gills adnate, sinuato-adnate, or adnexed. Spores 

 purple, fuscous, rarely pinkish fuscous ; elliptical, pip-shaped, almond- 

 shaped or oblong elliptical; smooth, or verrucose, with an apical 

 germ-pore. Cystidia present. Growing on the ground, or on wood, 

 solitary, gregarious, caespitose, or subcaespitose. 



I. Veil accidental, rarely conspicuous. St. thick-skinned, flexile, 

 most frequently coloured. P. pelliculose, most frequently slightly 

 viscid in wet weather, becoming somewhat pale. Colour of p. 

 bright. 



*Gills ventricose, not decurrent. 



1144. P. sarcocephala Fr. (= Psathyra sarcocephala (Fr.) Quel.) Fr. 

 Icon. t. 135, fig. 1. crdp%, flesh; cee^aX?;, head. 



P. 3-12 cm., ferruginous, becoming pale, fleshy, convex, then ex- 

 panded, obtuse, smooth, dry. St. 5-12 x -5-2 cm., whitish, sometimes 

 becoming slightly ferruginous, equal, or slightly attenuated downwards, 

 firm, smooth, apex white mealy, and somewhat squamulose. Gills 

 whitish, then flesh colour and at length fuscous, adnate, ventricose, 

 8-13 mm. broad, thick, fragile, not crowded. Flesh white, thick, firm. 

 Spores pinkish fuscous, oblong elliptical, 9-10 x 4-5 /A, 1-2-guttulate. 

 Cystidia broadly lanceolate, acute, 50-60 x 12-18 /JL. Taste pleasant. 

 Edible. Solitary, or caespitose. Often at the base of trees. Woods, 

 and pastures. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. Cookei Sacc. Cke. Illus. no. 591, t. 620. 



M. C. Cooke, the eminent English mycologist. 



Differs from the type in the larger, ochraceous, radiately rivulose, 



atlengthumbilicatep. Base of trees. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



