PSILOCYBE 367 



young, slightly striate. St. 4-7-5 cm. x 2 mm., pallid, equal, often 

 flexuose, containing a pith, capable of being twisted round the finger, 

 smooth, cortinate when young. Gills cream colour, then purple black, 

 ascending into the apex of the cone, adnexed, almost linear, crowded. 

 Flesh white, thin. Spores purple, 11-13 x 6-7-5 ju,. Cystidia on edge 

 of gill flask-shaped, or fusiform-subulate, 18-22 x 5-7 /n. Woods, 

 heaths, pastures, and roadsides. Aug. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 605, t. 573. 



Caerulescens, becoming blue. 



Differs from the type in the base of the st. turning indigo-blue. 

 Heaths, and pastures. July Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1166. P. callosa Fr. Pers. Myc. Eur. t. 27, fig. 3. 



Callosa, thick-skinned. 



P. 1-2 cm., livid, becoming fuscous, yellow, or whitish, fleshy, conical, 

 then campanulato-convex, obtuse, or broadly gibbous, smooth, dry. 

 St. 5-7-5 cm. x 1-2 mm., yellowish, becoming pallid, equal, often 

 flexuose, smooth, tough. Gills cream colour, then fuliginous black, 

 adnate, ascending, ventricose, crowded. Flesh thin. Spores "dark to 

 dark brown, elliptic-oval, triangular-globose, of various sizes and 

 shapes, 5-11 x 4-6 /A" Herpell. Pastures, lawns, and roadsides. 

 Aug. Oct. Uncommon. 



II. No veil. St. rigid. P. scarcely with a pellicle, but the flesh most 

 frequently scissile, hygrophanous. Gills adnexed, very rarely 

 adnate. 



1167. P. canobmnnea (Batsch) Fr. (= Psathyra canobrunnea (Batsch) 

 Quel.) Canus, hoary; brunnea, brown. 



P. 5-8 cm., watery pallid, or fuscous flesh colour, becoming pallid 

 tan, dry, fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, smooth, sometimes cracked 

 into small squares, somewhat viscid when moist. St. 5-6 cm. x 6- 

 10 mm., whitish, rigid, equal, rooting at the base, squamulose. Gills 

 pallid, then fuscous purple, somewhat free, ventricose, 6 mm. broad, 

 somewhat crowded. Flesh white, thick, firm. Spores "very dark in the 

 mass, narrowly elliptical, 8-9 x 4-5/x, brown, almost opaque. Cys- 

 tidia on edge of gill clavate-filamentous, 45-50 x 5-7 JM" Rick. Soli- 

 tary, or laxly gregarious. Grassy places in woods, and burnt ground 

 in beech woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



1168. P. spadicea Fr. (= Psathyra spadicea (Fr.) Quel.) 



Spadicea, date brown. 



P. 3-12 cm., date-brown-umber, becoming pale when dry, fleshy, 

 convex, then plane, obtuse, smooth, moist in rainy weather, often 

 broken up in cracks when dry, hygrophanous] margin inflexed when 



