OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
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purplish brown, thick-walled, 10 to 12.5 x 5.6 to 7 g. Occasionally caespitose. 
On rich soil, sometimes under trees, rarely on dung. South Australia — Waterfall 
Gully, Glen Osmond, National Park. April, May, August, September. 
A handsome medium-sized species recognised by the vivid colours of the cap 
and the purplish brown gills. 
211. Psilocybe subaeruginosa Clel. (L., aeruginosa, full of copper rust; sub, 
here near to the species Stropharia aeruginosa (Curt.) Fr.). — Pilous f to 2in. 
(1.8 to 5 cm.), when young conical to conico-convex, then convex and usually a 
little upturned, subumbonate or sometimes with a small acute umbo, smooth, 
periphery a little striate, edge inturned when young, hygrophanous, Buft’v Olive 
(xxx.), often with bluish-green blotches, drying pallid biscuit brownish (Tawny 
Figure 25 . — PsUocybe subaeruginosa Clel. (No. 211). 
Mount Lofty. 
Olive, xxix., or yellower than Warm Buff, xv., when dry; Dresden Brown, xv. ; 
Dusky Green-blue, xx., when dry near Cinnamon Buff, xxix., or paler; Saccardo’s 
Umber to Bister, xxix., when dry near Cream Colour, xvi., or Chamois, xxx.). 
Gills adnate to broadly adnexed sometimes with lines running down the stem, 
Jin. (6 mm.) deep, moderately close, slightly ventricose, in three series the 
middle one reaching half-way to the stem, pallid smoky brown becoming brownish- 
fuscous (near Natal Brown, XL., when old; Snuff Brown, xxix.; near Buffy 
Olive, becoming dingier; Fuscous, xlvi.). Stem tall, 2 to 5in. (5 to 12.5 cm.), 
equal or slightly attenuated upwards, rather slender, finely striate, mealy above 
(iiie fibrils sometimes adherent below, base a little swollen passing sometimes 
