364 PSILOCYBB 



1153. P. virescens (Cke. & Massee) Massee. Cke. Illus. no. 1182, 

 t. 1177, as Psilocybe areolata Klot. var. 



Virescens, growing green. 



P. 3-5 cm., bright dark brown, fleshy, convex, obtuse, then ex- 

 panded, minutely silky when young, the brown cuticle breaking up 

 into persistent, angular patches, the interstices being clear pale green, 

 becoming yellowish with age. St. 4-5 cm. x 6 mm., pale green, and 

 strongly striate at the apex, ferruginous below, base snow-white, downy, 

 equal, smooth, firm, straight, or slightly incurved. Grills pallid, then 

 smoky purple, edge pale, adnexed, 6 mm. broad, rather crowded, soft. 

 Flesh whitish, ferruginous towards the base of the St., thick at the disc. 

 Spores sooty purple, elliptical, ends obtuse, 9 x 5/u. Solitary. On 

 rotten chips, and stumps. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



1154. P. agraria Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 137, fig. 1. 



Agraria, pertaining to land. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., white, becoming cinereous when dry, fleshy, convex, at 

 length flattened and then often umbonate, smooth. St. 4-5 cm. x 

 2-4 mm., white, equal, smooth. Gills white, at length fuscous, obtusely 

 adnate, linear. Flesh white, firm, not 2 mm. thick. Clay fields, and 

 about the roots of decayed trees. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



1155. P. chondrodenna B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 599, t. 606, fig. A. 



%6vSpo<;, grain; Sep/j,a, skin. 



P. 2-3 cm., dark dale brown, fleshy, campanulate, very smooth, 

 cracked here and there in different directions; margin appendiculate 

 with the woven, jagged veil. St. 4-5 cm. x 5-6 mm., paler than the p., 

 subequal, fibrillose, base squamulose. Gills dark brown, edge white, 

 adfixed, separating, ventricose. Flesh yellowish, ferruginous towards 

 the base of the st., thick at the disc. Spores "purple black, elliptical, 

 6-7 x 3-3-5/z" Massee. Fir woods. Sept. Rare. 



1156. P. scobicola B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 598, t. 607. 



Scobis, saw-dust; colo, I inhabit. 



P. 2-5-4 cm., white, fleshy, convex, umbilicate, smooth. St. 2-5- 

 4 cm. x 4 mm., whitish, subequal, or dilated at the apex, fibrillose. 

 Gills brown with a red tinge, adnexed, broad. Flesh white, thin. Spores 

 pale, elliptical, 8 x 5/A. On pine sawdust, and branches. Nov. Rare. 



**Gills plane, very broad behind, somewhat decurrent. 

 (Deconica W. G. Sm.) 



1157. P. ammophila (Dur. & Mont.) Fr. (= Hypholoma ammo- 

 philum (Mont.) Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 599, t. 606, fig. B. 



a//,/io<?, sand; </>tA.o9, loving. 



P. 2-4 cm., reddish tan, becoming paler, fleshy, campanulate, then 

 convex, and at length flattened, fibrillose. St. 4-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., 



