132 



Gregarious amongst moss on rocks in shady places. Sack- 

 ville Reach, Hawkesbury River, August, 1915 ; Mosman, 

 North Bridge, and The Spit, Sydney, June and July, 1916 

 (Miss Clarke, Watercolour No. 134; Herb., J. B. C, Form. 

 Sps., 157, 230). This species appears to be allied to P. 

 bullacea. 



Pileus "6 cm. latus, conicus aut convexus, obtuse umbonatus, 

 deinde paene planus, hygrophanus, fuscus, postquam 

 sicco pallido-fuscus, striatus aut rugosus. Lamellae 

 aliquanto distantes, fuscae, adnatae aut aliquanto decur- 

 rentes. Stipes ad 3 cm. longus, tenuis, pallido-fuscus, 

 aliquanto sericeo-striatus, aliquanto cavus. Sporae 

 porphyraceo-coloratae, 7'5-9, interdum 10'5 x 5-6 /x. 



71. Psilocybe foenisecii, Persoon : Icon. Descr., t. 11, 

 f. 1; Cooke: Illustrs., pi. 590; Massee : Brit. Fung. Flora, 

 i., p. 377; Cooke: Handb. Austr. Fungi, No. 323 (Lake 

 Bonney). — The following, which is found growing on dung in 

 Australia, resembles Cooke's illustration of this species and 

 the description of it. Compared with identified specimens 

 kindly sent to us from England by Miss Wakefield, though 

 the size of the spores of our plants agree with that (13'8 to 

 15'5 x 7'5 /x) of the European species, the latter are more 

 of a dark sooty-brown and ours of a purplish or porphyry 

 brown. For the present at least we leave our plants under 

 P. foenisecii: — Pileus up to 1J inch in diameter, usually less, 

 convex to campanulate, then nearly plane, with a small acute 

 umbo, dark brown and striate when moist, drying to a pallid 

 yellowish or brown. Gills moderately crowded, narrow, 

 adnate, sometimes ventricose, greyish-purple to brownish- 

 purple when dry, edges white. Stem 1| to 3| inches high, 

 slender, fibrously striate or finely striate below and mealy 

 above, hollow, pallid brownish or pallid with a rufous tinge, 

 mycelium at the base. Spores in the mass very dark purplish- 

 black, microscopically dark purple-brown or porphyry brown, 

 oblique, elongated, 13 to 15'5 x 7 to 8*5 /x. 



On dung. National Park (N.S.W.), July, 1916; The 

 Spit, Sydney, July, 1916; cap not noted as umbonate, gills 

 greyish-brown, sinuate and moderately distant, stem pallid 

 whitish, spores 12 to 132 x 7^, The Oaks (N.S.W.), June, 

 1914; cap not noted as umbonate, gills ascending and nearly 

 free, stem whitish, spores 12'5 to 13*8 x 7'5 ju, Terrigal 

 (N.S.W.), June, 1914; Ararat, Victoria, May, 1917 (E. J. 

 Semmens). 



72. Psilocybe atomatoides, Peck: N. York State Mus., 

 Mus. Bull., 157, 1912, p. 96.— The following is evidently not 

 Psatht/rella atomata, to which with much doubt we at first 

 referred it. It resembles more the description of Peck's 



