1 84 AGARIC ACE^E Psilocybe 



840. H. felinum Sacc. (from the tawny pileus, coloured like members 



of the cat genus, Felis) a b. 



P. expanded, smooth, ochreous, biscuit-colour when dry. St. 

 fistulose, shining, striate above, white-floccose at base. V. 

 annulate. G. dove-colour, shaded brown. 



Gregarious, subcsespitose. Parks, roadsides, etc., on the ground. Sept. 

 I X ij X | in. 



841. H. leueotephrum Sacc. (from the colour of the gills ; Gr. leukos, 



white, tephros, ash-coloured) a b c. 



P. convexo-expanded, wrinkled, whitish or faint-salmon or 

 ochreous-shaded. St. hollow, striate above, silky-fibrillose 

 below, whitish. A. large. G. adnato-ascending, deep slate- 

 black, edge whitish. 



Csespitose. Base of ash-trees. Sept. -Oct. 2 x 4f X \ in. 



842. H. egenulum Sacc. (from its poor appearance ; egenulus, poor) a. 

 P. hemispherical, broadly umbonate, smooth, white ; marg. finely 



striate. St. fistulose, minutely adpressedly scaly, white, faintly 

 sienna-ochreous below. G. adnate with a tooth, ventricose, 

 purple-umber, edge white. 

 Solitary. On the ground amongst grass. May. if x if X \ in. 



843. H. hydrophilum Que'l. (from its hygrophanous habit j Gr. hudor^ 



water, philos^ loving) a b. 



P. flat, brittle, smooth, rugose, deep ferruginous-sienna or tawny- 

 ochreous, paler when dry. St. hollow, fibrilloso-mealy, shining, 

 whitish above, faintly sienna below. G. adnexed or adnato- 

 rounded, crowded, exuding drops of water, brown or sienna. 



Caespitose. About and on trunks and stumps. Oct.-Nov. 2f X 4^ X in. 

 Pileus sometimes 5 in. in diam. Sometimes placed in Bolbitius. 



844. H. pilul86forme Gill, (from the appearance of the pileus, like a 



little ball,////0) a. 

 P. even, smooth, fuscous, ochreous when dry. St. fistulose, 



white. V. annulate in young examples. G. adnexo-ascending, 



fuscous. 

 Csespitoso-crowded. Mossy trunks ; rare. Autumn, f x ij X j^ in. 



XXXVII. PSILOCYBE Quel. 



(From the naked pileus, owing to the usually obsolete veil ; 

 Gr. psilos, naked, kube, a head.) 



Veil very fugacious, usually obsolete. Hymenophore confluent 

 with, but heterogeneous from the cartilaginous stem. Pileus more 

 or less fleshy, smooth; the margin at first incurved. Stem central, 

 fistulose or stuffed, subcartilaginous, rigid or tough, often rooting, 

 simple. Gills becoming fuscous, brownish or purplish. (Fig. 46.) 



