392 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Distinguished amongst its allies by the gills being at first 

 pretty obscure violet, never flesh-colour. Densely caespitose, 

 fragile, very hygrophanous. Stem fistulose, 3 in. long, 

 3-4 lines thick, base solid, rather thickened, fibrillose, 

 white, apex striate. Veil curtain-like, appendiculate, white 

 then yellowish. Pileus rather fleshy, glandiform then 

 campanulate, soon convex and at length expanded, obtuse, 

 unequal, 2-4 in. broad, smooth, even, bay then whitish, disc 

 subochraceous. Flesh thin, white. Gills rotundato-ad- 

 nexed, then separating (from the stem), crowded, violet then 

 brownish- cinnamon, edge at first whitish. (Fries.) 



Hypholoma appendiculatus. Bull. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh thin, ovate then expanded, 

 glabrous, hygrophanous, bay-brown, becoming white with 

 an ochraceous tinge, rugose, and rather atomate when dry ; 

 gills adnexed, crowded, dry, rather narrow, whitish then 

 brownish flesh-colour; stem 23 in. long, 23 lines thick, 

 equal, glabrous, apex mealy, white, hollow ; spores elliptical, 

 5 x 2-5 fji. 



Agaricus appendiculatus, Bulliard, Champ., t. 392 (including 

 H. Candolleanus} ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 206; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 547. 



On stumps and trunks. Caespitose. 



Gills brown- red to chocolate, four in a set ; pileus white 

 to brown, conical, blunt. Stem white, smooth, splitting. . . . 

 Growing in crowded patches ; the pileus often splits to its 

 centre, as represented in Bulliard's fig. C. The curtain 

 hanging like a fringe from the edge of the pileus, is very 

 fugacious, and will not be found many minutes after the 

 pileus is fully expanded. (Purton.) 



Densely caespitose, very fragile and hygrophanous. Gills 

 whitish then brownish flesh - colour, distinguishes the 

 present from H. Candolleanus, but this character agrees with 

 Psilocybe spadicea, which is clearly separated by the total 

 absence of a veil, and by being more robust and rigid. 

 Stem fistulose, 3 in. long, "2-3 lines thick, equal, glabrous, 

 white, apex pruinose ; veil, as in H. Candolleanus, fimbriate, 

 fugacious, white. Pileus fleshy-membranaceous, thinner 

 than in H. Candolleanus, ovate then expanded, at length 

 flattened, obtuse, 2-3 in. broad, glabrous, bay then tawny ; 



