160 OUTLINES OF BRITISH FUXGOLOGY. 



Subgenus 38. — Psilocybe (p. 171). 



Psilocyl)e corresponds with Collybia, LeptonLa and Naucoria, 

 spores dark purplish, not white, rosy or brown. 



I. Tenaces. — Veil not essential, rarely consjncuous ; stem thick 

 skinned, flexile, mostly coloured ; 'p^leus bright coloured, 

 pellicidose, often rather viscid in toet ireather, hecoinivy sonie- 

 lolmt jicde. 



* Gills ventricose, not decnrrent. 



810. A. (Psilocybe) saroocephalus, i^r. ; pileus fleshy, 

 compact, convex, then expanded, obtuse, even, dry, pallid- 

 ferruginous ; stem robust, stuffed, then hollow, whitish, 

 clad with white meal at apex; gills adnate, broad, cine- 

 reous flesh-colour, then sooty. 



In grassy places, mostly about stumps. 



811. A. (Psilocybe) ericseus, P.; gregarious; pileus 

 1-1^ in., tawny-ferruginous, then tawny-yellow, fleshy, 

 thin, convex, then expanded, even, smooth, dry and shining, 

 somewhat viscous when wet ; stem fistulose, tough, equal, 

 somewhat smooth, or silky, becoming light yellow, white- 

 villous at base ; gills adnate, plane, somewhat distant, 

 pallid, then blackish olive, pruinose, edge whitish. 



In exposed pastures after rain. In woods and pastures. 

 Biare. Epping Forest. 



812. A. (Psilocybe) subericseus, Fr. ; pileus 2 in., rather 

 fleshy, rather convex, then plane, even, smooth, tawny ; 

 stem fistulose, smooth, becoming yellowish ; gills sinuate, 

 adnexed, broad, pallid, then blackish. 



In fields. 



813. A. (Psilocybe) udus, P. ; pileus ^-1 in., brick- 

 tawny, then pale, slightly fleshy, convex, then flattened, 

 sub-umbonate, smooth, even or slightly wrinkled ; stem 

 fistulose, equal, fibrillose, tawny-ferruginous, paler at apex ; 



