368 PSILOCYBE 



young. St. 4-10 cm. x 3-10 mm., white, firm, subcartilaginous, equal, 

 often curved, smooth, silky. Grills whitish, then flesh colour, at length 

 umber, rounded adnexed, crowded, arid. Flesh whitish, soft, somewhat 

 thick at the disc. Spores brownish purple, elliptical, 9 x 5-6/u,, 1- 

 guttulate. Solitary, or subcaespitose. On stumps, and on the ground. 

 Woods, and pastures. April Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. hygrophila Fr. 7/309, moisture ; (1X09, loving. 



Differs from the type in its larger size, the bullate p., the long, 10 

 15 cm., subfusiform rooting st., and the emarginate gills deeply decurrent 

 in the form of lines. Base of ash trees, and stumps. Oct. Eare. 



var. polycephala Fr. TroXv?, many; Ke^a\f], head. 



Differs from the type in the more slender, densely crowded pilei, and 

 the connately branched, thinner, flexuose stems. Prostrate trunks. 

 Rare. 



1169. P. cernua (Fl. Dan.) Fr. (= Psathyra cernua (Fl. Dan.) Quel.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 607, t. 574. Cernua, nodding. 



P. 2-5-6 cm., livid, inclining to pale when moist, white when dry, 

 hygrophanous, fleshy, fragile, campanulate, then flattened, obtuse, 

 smooth, or atomate under a lens, slightly wrinkled when dry, often 

 slightly pellucid-striate. St. 5-6 cm. x 3-4 mm., shining white, equal, 

 round, rigid-fragile, sometimes curved, smooth, apex mealy. Gills 

 white, then cinereous-blackish, adnate, at first linear, then ventricose, 

 2-4 mm. broad. Flesh white, thin at the margin. Spores "dark 

 brown in the mass, brown under the microscope, subcylindrical, 

 7-8 x 3-4/A, smooth. Cystidia on edge of gill clavate-bottle-shaped, 

 36-40 x 12-20 ju," Rick. Solitary, or gregarious. On dead wood, 

 chips, leaves. Aug. Dec. Uncommon. 



1170. P. squalens Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 137, fig. 2. Squakns, dirty. 

 P. 2*5-5 cm., ferruginous, with a lurid tinge, becoming pale and dirty 



tan when dry, fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, or depressed, smooth. 

 St. 2-55 cm. x 24 mm., concolorous, equal, slightly rigid, obsoletely 

 fibrillose, apex somewhat pruinose, striate. Gills clay colour, then 

 umber cinnamon, adnato-decurrent, ventricose, 4 mm. broad, crowded. 

 Flesh becoming whitish, thin. Spores fuscous ferruginous. Solitary, 

 or subcaespitose. On rotten trunks. Rare. 



1171. P. hebes Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 137, fig. 3, minor. Hebes, blunt. 

 P. 23 cm., lurid, pale when dry, hygrophanous, fleshy, convex, then 



expanded, obtuse, smooth, somewhat viscid, slightly striate at the 

 margin when moist, even when dry. St. 4-5 cm. x 4 mm., becoming 

 pale white, cartilaginous, rigid, equal, smooth. Gills white, becoming f us- 



