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A. T e n a c e s . Veil accidental, rarely conspicuous; stem hard,
flexible, often coloured ; pileus pelliculose, often rather
viscid when moist, growing pale.
* GiUs ventricose, not decurrent.
758. Agaiicus (Psilocybe) sazcocephalus. Fr. Hym. Fur. 297.
Sarco-ceph'alus, from crap( = flesh, and KtpaX)) = the head.
Prom the fleshy pileus.
Pileus fleshy, compact, convex then expanded, obtuse, even, dry,
pallid ferruginous; stem robust, stuffed then hollow, whitish, clad
with ivhite meal at the a p e x ; gills adnate, very broad, not crowded,
cinereous flesh colour, then sooty from the dark spores.— Cooke
Illus. t. 567 aud 620.
In grassy places, mostly about stumps.
759. Agaiicus (Psilocyhe) eiicaeus. Pers. Syn. p. 413.
Ericceus, from erica = heath ; growing on heaths.
Pileus fleshy, tough, conical, then convex, a t length plane, even,
smooth, rather viscid when moist, shining when dry ; stem somewhat
hollow, elongated, tongh, pallid ; gills adnate, broad, plane,
pallid, then hlack.—F r. Hym. Eur. 298. Cooke Illu s. t. 568.
In exposed pastures, after rain.
760. Agaiicus (Psilocyhe) suheiiceeus. Fr. Icon. Ho. 367, i. 136,
/• 2.
Sub-ericceus = rather like Ag. ericceus.
Pileus rather fleshy, convex, then plane, even, smooth, taw n y ;
stem fistulose, smooth, becoming yellowish, gill sinuate, adnexed,
broad, pallid, then blackish.—Ag. clivularum, Letell, t. 676.
Cooke Illu s. t. 588.
In fields.
Stem lJ-2 in. Pileus 2 in. broad or more,
761. Agaiicus (Psilocyhe) udus. Fers. Syn. p. 414,
Udus = damp. From its habitat.
Pileus fleshy, thin, convexo-plane, dry, rugulose, growing p a le ;
stem elongated, thin, tongh, fibrillose, ferruginous below, gills
affixed, ventricose, lax, whitisb, then becoming purplish.—Fr.
Hym. Eur. p. 298. Cooke Illus. t. 569.
In marshy places.
762. Agaricus (Psilocybe) canofaciens. Cooke, Grevillea xiVijjp. 1*
Cano-fac'iens = making hoary, canus. '
Gregarious. Pileus campanulate, then expanded, scarcely umbonate,
but with a fleshy disc, even, dark bay hrown, ferruginous
a t the apex, clad everywhere, as well as the stem, with delicate
scattered white hairs, which are soon evanescent a t the apex ; veil
white, fibrillose, at first attached to the margin of the pileus. Stem
of the same colonr as the pileus, nearly equal, stuffed, very dark
at the base; flesh of th e pileus pallid, of the stem rufescent,
gradually darker downwards. Gills very broad, adnate, ventricose,
dark umber.— Ag. areolatns, Smith in Mus. Britt. Cooke
Illu s. Í. 621.
On rotten straw.
Pileus about IJ incb diam. Stem 3 inches long, 3-4 lines tbiok. Spores
elliptical, irregular in size, •012-Ü17 X ’008 mm.
7 6 3 . A g a i i c u s (P silo cyb e ) a ie c la tu s . Klotsch. Berk. Outl. p. 172,
No. 336.
Areola'tus = with little sp.ices, areoe ; covered with patches.
Pileus somewhat fleshy, convex, clothed with minute fibrils ;
cuticle cracking into nearly square patches; stem fistulose, fibrillose,
dirty white ; gills adnate, umber, a t length black ; edge
white.—Fr. Hym. Eur. 298. Cooke Illus. t. 570.
In gardens. May—Oct.
“ Densely cæspitose. Pileus at first white, witb the cntiole entire, at
length rufous and cracking into areolæ, a much firmer plant than A. spa-
diceus, not briltle. Stem striate, piilvernlent, especially towards the apex,
hollow ; gills with a distinct white edge, at first very pale, spores very
dark, almost black, broadly almond-sbape.”—W. G. S.
7 6 4 . A g a iicu s (Psilocybe) a g ia iiu s . Fr. Hym. Fur. 299.
Agra'rius = of or pertaining to land, ager. Because found in
Sweden in clayey fields, in agris argillaceis (Fries, I.e.).
Pileus conical-convex, then expanded, whitish, then becoming
cinereous, not hygrophanous, subumbonate, between sulcate and
striate ; flesh white ; stem flexuous, fistulose, white ; gills rather
distant, somewhat broad, briefly adnate or adnexed, white, then
cinereous.— Cooke Illus. t. 622.
About the roots of decayed trees. Oct.
7 6 5 . Ag azicus (P silo cybe ) chond iode im u s. B. Sf Br. Ann, N.H.
No. 1538.
Chondro-dermus, from -xpvBpos = cartilage, and Sdppa = skin.
Pileus campanulate, fleshy, except the appendiculate margin,
quite smooth, even, bright brown, here and there cracked ; stem
nearly equal, fistulose, paler, squamulose a ttlie base ; gills ventricose,
affixed, seceding ; margin white.— Cooke Illus. t. 606 A.
In pine woods.
Pileus 1 in. across ; stem 2J lines tbiok, above 3 at the base ; spores
■00025 in. long, half as much wide, purple-black, almost oblong ; pileua
stains the paper yellow.
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