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THE LARGER FUNGI 
into a broad mass of white mycelium, stuffed with white, sometimes hollow, 
cartilaginous, flesh heterogeneous from that of the pileus, pallid whitish streaked with 
dark greyish-brown and often blotched with greenish blue (Prussian Green, xix., 
or a little paler; Dusky Blue Green, XX.). Closed with a cobwebby whitish veil 
when young, occasionally leaving indefinite traces of a somewhat' superior ring. 
Flesh of pileus whitish, of stem, becoming brownish. No smell. Spores in the 
mass purplish fuscous, microscopically rather elliptical, one side flattened, dark 
brown to dull purplish brown, 11 to 14 x 5.5 to 9 p. Single or gregarious, 
amongst grass, once on horse-dung'. South Australia -National 1 ark, Mount 
Lofty, Morialtn, Waterfall Gully. New South Wales. Victoria. April to August. 
(Figure 25.) 
**Gills plane, very broad behind, somewhat decurrent (Genus Obconica W.G.Sm.). 
1112. Psilocybe asperospora Clel. (L., taper, rough; Gr., spom, seed). — Pileus 
tin. (7.5 cm.), conico-convex, slightly gibbous, brownish and shaggy with 
fascicles of fibres, these leaving later dark brown, almost black, threads on the 
pileus. Gills adnate, often with a slight decurrent tooth, moderately close, dark 
brown, blotchy as seen with a hand lens. Stem up to bin. (15 cm.), rather stout, 
a little wavy', much fibrillose and shaggy below from the universal veil, many 
fibrillae being thread-like and dark, the upper H or 2in. (3.7 to 5 cm.) finely 
prui nose with minute punctate dark dots, slightly hollow, pallid with brownish 
and smoky patches. In young specimens the veil may be seen rupturing; there 
is no definite ring but the shaggy part of the stem, indicates where the veil 
was. Spores rough, mulberry-like, oval, oblique, one end a little truncate, dark 
bronze or black, 8.5 to 12 x 7 p. Densely caespitose in the hollow of an old 
stump. South Australia — National Park. April. 
This rather remarkable species seems to be probably a, Psilocybe. The shaggy 
pileus, caespitose habit, tall stem and rough spores which become black make it 
readily recognisable. Specimens were last obtained in 1917 near the upper end 
of Long Gully in National Park but, though the site where they occurred lias 
lieen frequently inspected since, they have not again been found. I he gills, 
though showing a trace of decurrence, are not very broad behind and the species 
hardly belongs to Decandtiu. 
213. Psilocybe subammophila <Uel. (L., su-b, somewhat; Gr., aminos, sand; 
ph-ilos, loving). — Pileus lin. (2.5 cm.), convex, subg'ibbous, sometimes slightly 
striate when moist and a little rugulose and shining when dry, edge a little 
turned in when young, hvgrophanous, dark brown when moist becoming near 
Ginnamon Buff (xxix.). Gills adnate, slightly ventricose, moderately close, 
becoming near Warm Sepia (XXIX.). Stem long, up to 3 in. (7.5 cm.), slightly 
attenuated upwards, slender, fibrillose, solid, the lower half buried, thickened and 
sand-encrusted, pallid with a brownish tint. Spores fuscous, elliptical oblique, 
II to 13 x 5.5 to (i p, no eystidia, seen. In sandy soil. South Australia — Near 
Kincliina, Henley Bench. April, May. 
214. Psilocybe subuda Clel. (L., Uda, moist; subuda, here near to the species 
Ps. uda (Pers.) Fr.). — -Pileus ft to lin. (1 to 2.5 cm.), ft to 9/l6in. (10 to 13 mm.) 
high, eampanuluto-eonvex or hemispherical, not umbonate, viscid or slightly so, 
not or rarely striate, near Isabella Colour (xxx.) or Ocliraeeous Tawny (xv.) in 
the centre and Olive Ochre (XXX.) near the edge. Gills adnate, triangular, 
passing straight to the stem, up to 1 1 cm. deep, moderately close, at first yellowish- 
green then clouded (lark grey (Chaetura. Drab, xi.vx), edges whitish. Stem usually 
2ft to Sin. (6.8 to 7.5 cm.), slender, equal, shining, sometimes slightly striate, 
slightly hollow, pale brownish to yellowish brown (the colour of the pileus or 
paler). No smell. Spores elliptical, dark porphyry-coloured (like the spores 
of 8. stcivoraria) or purplish-brown, 13 to 19 x 8.5 to 10 p. On horse-dung and 
rabbit’s dung. South Australia — Mould Compass, Myponga, National Park, 
Waterfall Gully. May, duly, October. 
This is evidently the dung-inhabiting species placed, more or less provisionally, 
under Ps. uda (Fr.) Battallle by Kauffmpn in lbs “ Agarieaecae of Michigan.” 
As the latter species grow on sphagnum, it seems better to treat the dung- 
inhabiting species as distinct. 
215. Psilocybe subviscida Peek.! (L., subt'isouJw, somewhat viscid). — Pileus 
Jin. (15 mm.), convex, then nearly plane or a little irregular, sometimes upturned, 
moist-looking, rather shiny, near Tawny to near Russet or Cinnamon Brown (XV.). 
Gills adnate or very slightly sinuate, rather close, narrow, Cinnamon Brown (xv-). 
