370 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



slightly fleshy. Stem flexuoxis, slightly attenuated up-wards, 

 whitish, shining, at first scaly like the pileus, within which 

 it is pruinose ; gills nearly plane, ventricose, adnato-aronate, 

 subdecnrrent, umher-brown. (Berk.) 



Psiloeybe buUacea. BuU. 



Pileus ^-^ in. across, rather fleshy, hemispherical then 

 expanded, at length umbonate, glabrous, finely striate to 

 the middle, tawny-bay, clay-colour when dry ; gills adnate, 

 broad) triangular, plane, crowded, rusty-brown; stem 1-1 J 

 in. long, 1 line or more thick, equal, fibrillose, pale-yellowish, 

 base brownish, hollow. 



Agaricus (Psiloeybe) hullaeeus, BuUiard, Champ., t. 566, 

 f. 2; Cke., Hdbk., p. 210; Cke., lUustr., pi. 608 b. 



On dung, rich soil, &c. 



Veil at first often evident, sometimes appendiculate from 

 the margin. Stem 1 in. long or a little more, 1 line thick, 

 yellowish, base rusty-brown. Pileus scarcely reaching an 

 inch across, tawny-bay, clay-colour when dry, when moist a 

 viscid pellicle readily separates from the pileus. Gills of 

 themselves livid-white, spores on a black ground purple- 

 lilac. (Fries.) 



Gregarious. Stem hollow, 1 in. or a little more in length, 

 1 line thick, equal or attenuated at the base, cortinated 

 when young, then rather fibrillose, tawny then yellowish, 

 base rusty-brown. Pileus rather fleshy at the disc, margin 

 almost membranaceous, hemispherical, obtuse, then expanded, 

 umbonate, 4-6 lines broad, covered with a separable viscid 

 pellicle, glabrous, tawny-bay, then reddish-ochre, clay- 

 colour when dry ; margin at first even, with fragments of 

 the appendiculate veil, then naked and striate. Gills 

 adnate, minutely decurrent, subtriangular, plane, crowded, 

 livid-white then rusty-brown. Spores purple-lilac on a 

 black ground. (Pries.) 



Psiloeybe physaloides. Bull. 



Pileus |-f in. across, slightly fleshy, campanulate then 

 expanded, sometimes subumbonate and depressed round the 

 umbo, even, rather viscid, purple-brown, becoming paler ; 

 giUs slightly decurrent, crowded, rather broad, rusty-brown ; 

 stem about 1 in. long, and 1 line thick, equal, rather pliant. 



