Clitocybe AGARICACE^E 47 



154. C. clavipes Gill, (from the club-shaped stem ; claret, a club, 



fes, a foot) a b c. 



P. flat, sooty-brown or grey ; marg. often white. St. smoky-livid, 

 somewhat fibrillose. G. subdistant, deeply decurrent, white. 

 Flesh hyaline-whitish. 



Odour mild, pleasant. Woods, spruce-fir, pine, beech ; common. July-Nov. 

 2$ X 2 x 5 in. There is a white variety. The pileus is sometimes 4 in. 

 or more in diam. 



154a. C. eomitialis Gill, (perhaps from its being one of a number of 



allied forms which meet at this position in Clitocybe) a. 

 P. obtuse, soon plane, even, glabrous, somewhat moist, not 

 hygrophanous, sooty-brown, almost black. St. stuffed, attenuate 

 upwards, obconic, glabrous, sooty-brown. G. subdecurrent, 

 horizontal, thin, crowded, white. Flesh white or whitish. 



Odour none. Pine - woods, damp places amongst moss. Autumn. 

 if X 35 X i^ i n - Firmer and smaller than 154. 



155. C. gangrsenosa Gill, (from its ulcerous appearance ; gangrana, 



an ulcer) a b c. 



P. livid, at first white-pulverulent. St. slender to stout, sooty- 

 grey. G. sub- or sinuato-decurrent. 



Taste insipid, unpleasant ; odour sometimes strongly fetid, meal-like but 

 nauseous, sometimes strong and not unpleasant. Woods and plantations, 

 larch ; rare. Oct.-Nov. 3 X 3! X in. More or less changing within 

 and without to slate-colour or black ; the flesh changes from livid to 

 indigo, then black ; sepia-black when dry. Must not be confounded 

 with 1168. 



155a. C. polia Karst. (Gr. polios, grey) a b. 



P. glabrous, not hygrophanous, pale grey or pale olive-brownish ; 

 marg. whitish. St. solid, slightly attenuate upwards, white, 

 pale brownish below. G. somewhat deeply decurrent, closely 

 crowded, very narrow, white. Flesh white, pale brown in P. 



Caespitose, usually in small clusters, but sometimes i ft. 4 in. in diam. 

 Woods. Autumn. 2 x 3! X f in.! 



156. C. inornata Gill, (inornatus, unadorned) a b c. 



P. with a separable livid-brownish pellicle, which frequently 

 cracks from the marg. upwards and peels up, unchanging livid. 

 St. greyish or brownish. G. decurrent, colour as St. Flesh 

 grey. 



Odour mushroom-like. Fields, woods ; under cedars ; rare. Oct.-Nov. 

 4 X 2| x \ in. 



156a. C. luseina Karst. (from the often small eye-like pileus and the 



solitary habit ; liisciniis, one-eyed) a. 



P. somewhat fleshy, even, edge spreading, glabrous, grey on a 

 pale reddish or buff ground, purple or slate-brown when young ; 

 marg. striate. St. solid, attenuate downwards, greyish or 

 faintly brownish, white pulverulent. G. subdecurrent, crowded, 

 yellowish- or salmon-whitish, shaded grey. 



In pastures. Autumn. 2 X 2 x T s s in. 



