374 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Agaricus (Psilocybe) canobrunneus, Gries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 

 294 ; Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 302. 



On the naked ground in sunny places, and on scorched 

 ground. 



Solitary. Firm, rigid, pileus flesh-colour, when dry pale 

 clay-colour. 



Solitary or laxly gregarious, amongst the most robust and 

 firm in this genus. Stem rigid, hollow, 2 in. and more long, 

 3-5 lines thick, equal, base rooting, squanmlose, whitish. 

 Veil not seen even in the earliest stage of development. 

 Pileus truly fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, 2-3 in. broad, 

 even, glabrous, from its rigidity sometimes cracked in an 

 areolate manner, rather viscid when moist, watery pallid or 

 brownish flesh-colour, pale clay-colour when dry. Flesh 

 thickish, white. Gills almost free, ventricose, 3 lines 

 broad, rather crowded, distinct, pallid then purple-brown. 

 (Fries.) 



Psilocybe spadicea. Fr. 



Fasciculate, pileus rigid, 1-3 in. across, convex, obtuse 

 then more or less plane, glabrous, even, moist, hygrophanous, 

 bay-brown when moist, pallid when dry ; gills rounded 

 behind and adnexed, dry, crowded, about 2 lines broad, pale 

 then rosy-brown ; stem 2-4 in. long, rather tough, 2-3 lines 

 thick, equal, whitish, smooth, apex even, hollow; spores 

 elliptical, brown, 9 x 4 //,. 



Agaricus (Psilocybe) spadiceus, Fries, Epicr., p. 225 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 211 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 610. 



On the ground amongst leaves, at the base of trunks, &c. 



Rather caespitose. Veil entirely absent from the first. 

 Stem firm, cartilaginous (in moist places on the ground, 

 softer). Pileus convexo-plane, even, at first glabrous, rigid, 

 rough with minute points, bay-umber, becoming pale when 

 dry, flesh whitish, margin slightly incurved, when dry 

 often broken up, especially var. polycephalus. Gills at length 

 either cinnamon (in dry weather), or umber. (Fries.) 



Var. hygrophilus. Large, pileus brown then clay-colour ; 

 stem 46 in. long, rather fusiform and rooting, gills emargi- 

 nate with a long decurrent line down the stem, at length 

 umber-brown. 



Fries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 296 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 212. 





