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AGARICUS. 



Hypholoma. The pileus is quite smooth as if delicately gummed. Spores brown-purple. 

 Solitary. Has exactly the habit of Schceff. t. 205 (A. cernuus). The nearest 

 ally is appendiculatus. 



On the ground among grass. Apethorpe. May. 



Name egenulus, poor. Of appearance. B. 6 Br. n. 915. C. Hbk. n. 

 412. Illust. PL 605. A. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 296. 



725. A. pilulseformis Bull. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) and more 

 broad, fuscous when moist, dingy^ochraceous when dry, somewhat 

 membranaceous, globose then expanded^ obtuse, even, smooth. 

 Stem 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, fistulose, flexu- 

 ous, smooth, white, naked at the apex. Cortina manifest, woven, 

 in the form of a ring when young. Gills adnexed, easily separat- 

 ing, thin, narrow, linear, arid, white then cinereous, at length 

 becoming fuscous. 



It is as it were a very small form of A. appendiculatus t but it differs essen- 

 tially in the gills never turning flesh-colour. Its mode of growth is almost 

 that of A. disseminatus, very crowded and fragile. 



On mossy trunks. Rare. 



Berkeley is inclined to consider this the young state of A. hydrophilus Bull, 

 t. 511. Name pilula, a little ball ; forma, form. From its shape. Bull. t. 

 112. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 428. Hym. Eur. p. 296. B. & Br. n. 1951. 



Psiiocybe. Subgenus XXXII. PSILOCYBE ($t\6s, naked ; K VM, head). 

 Fr. Syst. Myc. i. p. 289. No manifest veil, at least not a woven 



one. Stem somewhat cartilaginous, 

 rigid or tough, tubular, the tube hol- 

 low or stuffed, often rooting. Pileus 

 more or less fleshy, smooth, the 

 margin at first incurved. Gills be- 

 coming ftiscous or purple. Fr. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 297. 



Psiiocybe corresponds with Colly - 

 bia, Leptonia, and Naucoria. Nearly 

 all the species grow on the ground, 

 and are gregarious, here and there 

 caespitose. Inodorous. None are 

 edible. 



XXXIII. Afaricn*(Psilocybt') s/>a- 



dicens. One-third natural size. 



I. Tenaces (tenax, tough). Veil not es- 

 sential, rarely conspicuous. Stem thick- 

 skinned, flexile, most frequently coloured. 



Pileus with a pellicle, most frequently slight- 

 ly viscid in wet weather, becoming somewhat pale. Colour of pileus bright. 



