366 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



In swamps, amongst sphagnum, &c. 



Pileus testaceo-tawny, becoming pale, not hygrophanous. 

 There is a variety with the pileus almost membranaceous, 

 acutely conical, tawny, gills yellowish- white, owing to being 

 almost sterile. Amongst sphagnum. (Fries.) 



Scattered, tough when young, slender. Stem fistulose, 

 23 in. long, 1 line or more thick, equal, fibrillose, tawny- 

 ferruginous, paler at the apex; pileus rather fleshy, convex 

 then expanded, more or less evidently umbonate, |-1 in. 

 broad, glabrous, even, rugulose when old, tawny -bay. Gills 

 adfixed, ventricose, very broad, lax, plane or convex, pallid 

 then purplish-brown. 



Amongst high mosses, especially Polytricha, there is a 

 form with a longer, more or less tawny stem, pileus smaller, 

 becoming depressed, yellow then whitish, often striate ; gills 

 livid-yellow or clouded with white. 



Amongst sphagnum it becomes very much drawn out, 

 very slender, stem slender, wavy, pallid ; pileus submem- 

 branaceous, at first conical, livid yellow and striate when 

 moist (tinged greenish), even and yellow when dry ; gills 

 pallid, not becoming discoloured, and commonly sterile. 

 (Fries.) 



Psilocybe canofaciens. Cke. 



Gregarious. Pileus f-1 in. across, campanulate then ex- 

 panded, scarcely umbonate, but with a fleshy disc, even, 

 dark bay-brown, ferruginous at the apex, clad everywhere, 

 as well as the stem, with delicate, white, scattered hairs, 

 which are soon evanescent at the apex ; veil white, fibrillose, 

 at first attached to the margin of the pileus ; stem 23 in. 

 high, 2-3 lines thick at the apex, subequal or slightly attenu- 

 ated downwards, of the same colour as the pileus, very dark 

 at the base, stuffed ; flesh of pileus pallid, of the stem rufes- 

 cent, gradually darker downwards ; gills 3 lines broad, ad- 

 nate, ventricose, dark umber ; spores umber-brown, elliptic- 

 oblong, very variable in size, the longest 17x8, the smaller 

 10 X 4 p.. 



Agaricus (Psilocybe) canofaciens, Cke., Grev. 14, p. 1 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 208; Cke., Illustr., pi. 621. 



Agaricus areolatus, W. G. Smith, in Brit. Mus. 



On rotten straw. 



