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EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS OF CANADA
membranous, concolorous with the pileus, with no distinctive odor, lamellae
ascending adnalc, moderately spaced, moderately broad, narrowly ventricose,
vinaceous buff when young, brown vinaceous with age, with whitish margins.
STIPE I'^s-2^,s in. long, l^j-, or less in. thick, equal, slender, often wavy, dry,
dull or subpolished, white to beige apically, ocherous to cinnamon basally,
often partially covered with whitish scattered fibrils, darkening with age,
usually developing blue to bluish green stains on the whitish silky parts when
handled, spores 12-14.5 X 6.3-8.2 ^u, smooth, purple brown, ellipsoid, slightly
thick-walled, slightly truncated from a well-developed germ pore.
Singly or gregarious in pastures or other grassy areas in the eastern and
western maritime regions. Sept.-Nov.
Psilocybe silvatica (Pk.) Singer & Smith and P. pelUcuIosa (Smith) Singer
& Smith are similar but occur in forested areas and have smaller spores. A
number of other species containing hallucinogens and having a collybioid
aspect and sometimes with a prominent annulus also occur in Canada. Among
the nonhallucinogenic species, P. montana (Pers. ex Fr.) Kummer is common
on beds of Polytrichum (haircap mosses) and P. atrohrwmea (Lasch) Gillet is
infrequently found on Sphagnum (peat moss) in bogs.
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