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edge; stem slender, stuffed, fibrous, subflexuous, reddish brown; 

 spores 9-12 X 5-8 /x. 



Pileus 1.2-2.4 cm broad; stem 2.5-5 cm long, 2-2.5 mm thick. 



Gregarious or cespitose. Damp ground in woods. Adirondack 

 mountains. September. Very variable. Rare except in the Adiron- 

 dack region. 



Var. umbonata Pk. has the pileus umbonate. 



Var. macrospora Pk. has spores 12-15 x 6-8 fi. 



Var. deformata Pk. has the pileus very irregular with the 

 margin upcurved and the lamellae very broad, ventricose and irregu- 

 lar; spores 12-15 X 6-8 fi. 



Perhaps the last two may be worthy of specific distinction. An 

 unattractive species with the pileus often stained and defiled by 

 the spores lodging on it. 



Psilocybe polycephala (Paul.) 



MANY CAP PSILOCYBE 

 Plate 127, fig. 1-9 



Pileus fleshy but thin, subcampanulate convex or nearly plane, 

 glabrous, even, hygrophanous, at first whitish with a reddish yellow 

 center, then darker or brown and striatulate on the margin while 

 moist, paler or whitish when dry, taste mild ; lamellae thin, narrow, 

 close, adnexed or nearly free, whitish becoming purplish brown ; 

 stem equal, straight or flexuous, hollow, glabrous, mealy or pruinose 

 at the top, white; spores purplish brown, ellipsoid, 7-8 x 4-5 fi. 



Pileus 1-3 cm broaid ; stem 2.5-5 cm long, 2-4 mm thick. 



Densely gregarious or cespitose. In woods on the ground about 

 the base of trees or on dead wood. Lewis co. September. Rare. 

 Edible. 



This is commonly considered a variety of Psilocybe 

 s p a d i c e a Fr. but it has seemed to us to be worthy of specific 

 distinction. Its distinctive features have been mentioned in another 

 place in this report. 



Psilocybe foenisecii (Pers.) Fr. 



HAYMAKERS PSILOCYBE MOWERS MUSHROOM 



N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 75, p.33, pl.86, fig.i-ii 

 Pileus thin, campanulate or convex, obtuse, glabrous, hygro- 

 phanous, brown or reddish brown when moist, paler when dry; 

 lamellae broad, ventricose, adnate, subdistant, brown; stem slender, 



