330 AGARICUS. 



Psilocybe. smooth, whitish, not striate at the apex. Gills rounded-adnexed, 

 crowded, arid, whitish, then flesh-colour, at length umber. 



It is most certainly different from A. appendiciilatus, which is of the same 

 colour, in the pileus and stem being rigid, and in being absolutely destitute of 

 a veil. It departs from all others in this section in the gills being whitish then 

 Jlesh-colour, then fuscous. Forming large lax clusters. 



On stumps, the ground, &c. Common. July-Nov. 



Spores ellipsoid, 8-9x4-5 mk. K. ; 8x6 mk. W.G.S. Name spadix, a 

 palm-branch. Date-brown. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 435. Hym. Eur. p. 302. 

 Berk. Out. p. 171. C. Hbk. n. 418. Illust. PL 610. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 400. 

 Schceff. t. 60. /. 4-6. 



* A. hygrophilus, larger. Pileus fuscous then tan, bullate. 

 Stem 10-15 cent. (4-6 in.) long, somewhat fusiform-rooted. Gills 

 emarginate, deeply decurrent in the form of lines, at length fus- 

 cous-umber. 



On stumps. Oct. Glamis, 1874. Name uypoi/, moisture ; 4>i'Xos, loving. 

 Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 302. Monogr. i. p. 435. B. & Br. n. 1771. -S. Mycol. 

 Scot. n. 400. 



740. A. ceriums Fl. Dan. Pileus 2.5-6 cent. (1-2 > in.) broad, 

 livid inclining to pale when moist, white when dry, hygrophanous, 

 slightly fleshy, fragile, campanulate then flattened, obtuse, 

 smooth (or atomate under a lens), slightly wrinkled when dry. 

 Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) and more long, about 4 mm. (2 lin.) thick, 



fistulose, equal, round, rigid-fragile, smooth, shining white, slight- 

 ly mealy at the apex. Gills adnate, at first linear, then ventricose, 

 scarcely crowded, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) broad, at first white then cin- 

 ereous-blackish. 



Pileus slightly pellucid-striate. Stem is sometimes curved, hence the pileus 

 is nodding. The spores do not change to ferruginous. Solitary or gregarious, 

 scarcely csespitose. 



On dead wood, chips, &c. Uncommon. Aug.-Dec. 



Spores 6x8 mk. W. G.S. Name cernuo, to fall head-foremost. From the 

 nodding pileus. Fl. Dan. t. 1005. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 436. Hym. Eur. p. 

 302. Berk. Out. p. 171. C. Hbk. n. 419. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 401. Schceff. 

 t. 205. Fault, no./". 3. 



741. A. hebes Fr. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, lurid when 

 moist, pale when dry, hygrophanous, slightly fleshy, convex then 

 expanded, obtuse, even, smooth, slightly viscid and slightly striate 

 at the margin when moist, becoming even when dry. Stem 4-5 

 cent. (i>2-2 in.) long, 4 mm. (2 lin.) thick, cartilaginous, rigid, 

 fistulose, equal, even, smooth, naked, becoming pale white. Gills 

 very broad behind, triangular, wholly adnate, crowded, arid, 

 white then becoming fuscous. 



