PSILOCYBE 363 



1150. P. uda (Pers.) Fr. (= Flammuloides uda (Pers.) Quel.) Cke. 

 Illus. no. 594, t. 569. Uda, moist. 



P. 1-2-5 cm., brick tawny, becoming pale, fleshy, convex, then flat- 

 tened, often more or less umbonate, smooth, slightly wrinkled when 

 old; margin often striate. St. 4 7-5 cm. x 2 4 mm., tawny ferrugi- 

 nous, apex paler, equal, flexuose, fibrillose. Gills pallid, then becoming 

 fuscous purple, adfixed, ventricose, 4-6 mm. broad, lax, plane, or 

 convex. Flesh yellow, ferruginous towards the base of the st., thin. 

 Spores purple, broadly elliptical, 8-11 x 5-6 /A, 1-2-guttulate. Cys- 

 tidia "on the edge of the gill clavate-filamentous, 45-50 x 3-4/x" 

 Rick. Swampy places and amongst Sphagna. Woods, and heaths. 

 Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 

 var. Polytrichi Fr. Polytrichum, a genus of mosses. 



Differs from the type in the p. being pallid yellow, becoming whitish 

 especially at the margin, and at length plane and depressed, in the 

 glabrous, pallid tawny st., and the whitish clouded gills at length be- 

 coming decurrent, never becoming purple but often greenish. Amongst 

 Polytricha. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 

 var. elongata (Pers.) Fr. Elongata, tall. 



Differs from the type in the submembranaceous p. being livid, or 

 greenish yellow, and striate when moist, becoming yellowish when dry. 

 Amongst Sphagna in mountain pine woods. 



1151. P. canofaciens Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 595, t. 621. 



Canus, hoa,Ty,faciens, making. 



P. 2-4 cm., dark bay brown, disc ferruginous, fleshy, campanulate, 

 then expanded, scarcely umbonate, clad everywhere as well as the st. 

 with delicate, scattered, white hairs, which are soon evanescent at the 

 apex; margin appendiculate with the white, fibrillose veil. St. 

 5-7-5 cm. x 4-6 mm., concolorous, base very dark, subequal. Gills dark 

 umber, adnate, 6 mm. broad, ventricose. Flesh of the p. pallid, of the 

 st. rufescent, gradually darker downwards, thick at the disc. Spores 

 umber brown, elliptic oblong, 17 x 8, 10 x 4ju. Caespitose. Rotten 

 straw, and rubbish. May. Rare. 



1152. P. areolata (Klotzsch) Berk. Cke. Illus. no. 596, t. 570. 



Areolata, divided into small patches. 



P. 3-7-5 cm., ochraceous, or fuscous, fleshy, convex, minutely 

 fibrillose, cuticle cracking into nearly equal, square patches, interstices 

 and margin pale. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 4-6 mm., dirty white, equal, often 

 thickened at the base, fibrillose. Gills umber, at length blackish, edge 

 white and beaded with drops of moisture, adnate, 4-6 mm. broad. 

 Flesh tinged brown, thick at the disc. Spores "blackish umber with 

 a purple tinge, broadly almond-shaped, 12-13 x 8/u." Massee. Densely 

 caespitose. On wood. Gardens. May Oct. Rare. 



