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fistulose, flexuose, smooth, white, apex even, pruinose (6 c.m. long, 
2-3 m.m. thick) ; gills adnate, subventricose, scarcely crowded, 
whitish-cinereous, then brownish-black ; spores 7-10x5-7 p. 
On chips, decayed wood, etc. Victoria. 
323. Agaricus (Psilocybe) fcenisecii (Pers.). Fr. Hym. 
Fur. 303. Cooke Illus. t. 590. Sacc. Syll. v., 4275. 
Pileus somewhat fleshy, campanulate, then expanded, obtuse 
(2|-5 c.m. broad), becoming dry ; stem fistulose, not rooting, 
pallid rufous, even, smooth (5-8 c.m. long, 3 m.m. thick) ; gills 
adnate, ventricose (as if broadly emarginate), scarcely crowded, 
brownish-umber; spores 10-12x6-7 p. 
Amongst grass. Lake Bonney. 
324. Agaricus (Psilocybe) Ceres. Gke. If Mass, Grev. xvi., 
72. 
Pileus convex, at length expanded, scarcely umbonate, thin, 
even, smooth, briclc-red (about 1 in. broad) ; stem elongated (4 
in.), fibrillose, stuffed, ochraceous, tomentose downwards (2-3 lines 
thick) ; gills crowded, deeply sinuate, ventricose, cinereous, cloudy, 
becoming very dark brown ; spores elliptic, 14-16 x 6-8 p. 
On the ground. Victoria. (Pig. 31). 
Sub-Genus 87. DECONIC A. Smith. 
Gills decurrent. Otherwise as in Psilocybe. 
325. Agaricus (Deconica) atrorufus. Schceff. t. 234. Fr. 
Hym. Fur. p. 300. Cooke Illus. t. 571. Sacc. Syll. 4293. 
Pileus rather fleshy, hemispherical, convex (8-18 m.m. 
broad), obtuse, smooth, slightly striate at the margin, discoloured 
when dry, even : stem hollow, thin, equal, pallid bay (2^-5 c.m. 
long) ; gills rather decurrent, broad, plane, umber; spores 
10-12 x 6 p,. 
On the ground in woods. W. Australia. 
326. Agaricus (Deconica) nucisedus. Fr. Hym. Eur. />. 
800. Cooke Illus. t. 609 b. 
Pileus rather fleshy, convex, obsoletely umbonate, yellowish, 
even, silky when dry; stem fistulose (1-2 in. long), pallid, atten- 
uated upwards, brownish, downy ; gills adnate, broad, plane, brown, 
then dark umber. 
On chips. Queensland. 
Sub-Genus 38. PSATHYKA. Fr. Epicr. p. 231. 
Veil none, or only universal, floccose-fibrillose ; stem rather 
cartilaginous, fistulose, polished, fragile ; pileus conical or cam- 
panulate, membranaceous ; margin at first straight, adpressed to 
the stem; gills purplish or brownish, slender, fragile, hygro- 
phanous. 
