[Larger illustration]

(c) Agarics of meadows and valley-bottom grasslands

Psilocybe semilanceata (Secretan) Kummer Liberty caps

Cap: width 8-14 mm; height up to 18 mm. Stem: width 4-6 mm; length 50-70 mm.

Description:

Cap: sharply conical, in fact often with a very distinct apical point, never or very rarely becoming expanded, often fluted and puckered at the incurved margin, smooth, viscid, pale buff or clay colour, but soon flushed with greyish green at maturity and becoming free of the fibrils of veil which ornament the margin when young.

Stem: slender, tough and smooth, similarly coloured to the cap and sometimes blueing at the base when picked.

Gills: adnate to adnexed, crowded, purplish black except for white edge.

Flesh: white or pallid.