PSATHYRA 413 



P. sarcocephala (Fr.) Quel. = Psilocybe sarcocephala Fr. 



P. canobrunnea (Batsch) Quel. = Psilocybe canobrunnea (Batsch) Fr. 



P. spadicea (Fr.) Quel. = Psilocybe spadicea Fr. 



P. cernua (Fl. Dan.) Quel. = Psilocybe cernua (Fl. Dan.) Fr. 



P.foenisecii (Pers.) Quel. = Psilocybe foenisecii (Pers.) Fr. 



I. P. conico-campanulate, gills ascending, adnexed, often free. 

 St. tense and straight. Veil none. 



1325. P. elata Massee. (= Psathyra conopilea FT. va,i. superba (Jungh.) 

 Cke.) Cke. Illus. no. 1185, t. 1158, as Psathyra conopilea Fr. 

 var. superba Jung. Elata, tall. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., dark clear brown, pale ochraceous and minutely atomate 

 when dry, submembranaceous, obtusely campanulate, very sym- 

 metrical, smooth. St. 10-17-5 cm. x 5-6 mm., snow white, silky 

 shining, slightly and uniformly attenuated upwards, straight, rigid, 

 smooth. Gills whitish, then purplish brown, broadly adnate, 3-4 mm. 

 broad, soft, crowded. Flesh brownish, becoming whitish, thin at the 

 margin. Spores brown with a purple tinge, elliptical, 18 x 8-9/Lt. 

 Amongst grass in hedge banks. Aug. Rare. 



1326. P. conopilea Fr. (= Psathyra superba Jungh. sec. Quel.) Cke. 

 Illus. no. 609, t. 575. KWVO?, a cone; pileus, cap. 



P. 2-5 cm., bay brown, then pale ochraceous when dry, submembrana- 

 ceous, conico-campanulate, scarcely expanded, obtuse, smooth, fragile. 

 St. 10-15 cm. x 2-4 mm., silvery-shining, becoming yellowish, slightly 

 attenuated upwards, tense and straight, polished, smooth. Gills white, 

 then flesh colour and finally fuscous purple, adnexed in the top of the 

 cone, 4-5 mm. broad, only slightly ventricose, crowded. Flesh yellow- 

 ish, then whitish, thin. Spores fuscous purple, broadly elliptical, 

 12-15 x 7-8/x. Pastures, roadsides, ditches. Sept. Nov. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



1327. P. mastigera B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 610, t. 591, fig. A. 



//,a<7T09, a breast; gero, I bear. 



P. 2-3 cm., dark rich brown, umber tan when dry, fleshy, nearly 

 cylindrical, obtuse, conico-campanulate, with a strong mammiform 

 umbo, repand; margin straight. St. 6-8 cm. x 3-4 mm., white, at- 

 tenuated upwards, smooth, or fibrillose and furfuraceous. Gills 

 umber, edge paler, affixed, ascending, rather narrow. Flesh pale umber, 

 thick at the disc. Spores fuscous, "elliptical, 15-16 x 7-8 JLI" Massee. 

 Roadsides amongst grass. July Nov. Rare. 



1328. P. Loscosii Rabenh. Francisco Loscos. 

 P. 5 cm., greyish fuscous, membranaceous, campanulate, then ex- 

 panded, radiately sulcate, folds at length granularly crenate; margin 



