84 AGARICUS. 



Clitocybe. ** Pileus coloured or pallid, &c. 



166. A. gilvus Pers. Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, pale- 

 yellowish, fleshy, compact, convex then depressed, very obtuse, even, 

 smooth, dampish when fresh, polished and shining when dry, 

 here and there spotted as with drops, the margin remaining long 

 involute ; flesh compact, not laxly floccose, but at length fragile, 

 somewhat of the same colour as the pileus. Stem 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 

 in.) and more long, 12 mm. (^2 in.) and more thick, solid, fleshy, 

 stout, not elastic, somewhat equal, smooth, paler than the pileus, 

 villous at the base. Gills decurrent, thin, very much crowded, 

 often branched, arcuate, narrow, pallid then ochraceous. 



Odour not remarkable. The stem has been noticed at length also hollow, 

 perhaps eroded by larvae. It corresponds with the Paxilli. The primary 

 form, which is very different from all the rest, is curt, obese, robust, scarcely 

 ever infundibuliform. B. protracta (lengthened out), externally and internally 

 pallid-ochraceous, pileus somewhat thin, very broad (10-20 cent., 4-8 in.) and 

 infundibuliform, the somewhat thin stem elongated, 10 cent. (4 in. ) 



In woods. West Farleigh, Kent. 1874. 



Spores sphasroid or subsphaeroid, 4-5x5 mk. K. Name -gilvus, pale yellow 

 with a slight tinge of brown. Pers. Syn. p. 448, partly. Fr. Monogr. p. 122. 

 Hym. Eur.p. 95. B. & Br. n. 1508. Fl. Dan. t. ion. C. Illust. PL 136. 



167. A. subinvolutus Batsch. Pileus brick-colour, convex, 

 depressed, smooth, margin closely involute ; flesh pallid. Stem 

 paler, stout, straight, somewhat equal, veined on the lower part 

 with oblique coalescing slightly elevated wrinkles, tomentose and 

 inclining to flesh-colour above towards the gills, base obtuse. 

 Gills decurrent, rather broad, of the same colour as the pileus. 



The stem is rough on the surface and destitute of lustre. It resembles A. 

 involutus (Paxillus involutus} in size and habit, in the crenate and involute 

 margin of the pileus, and in the stem being obsoletely veined at the base and 

 tomentose towards the gills. 



Under Scotch fir. Laxton Park, Norths. Oct. 



Name. From its likeness to A. involutus, with which Batsch compares it. 

 Batsch t. 204. B. &> Br. n. 1508*. C. Illust. PL 108. 



168. A. spinulosus Stev. & Sm. Pileus 4-7.5 cent. (i><-3 in.) 

 broad, creamy flesh-colour, fleshy, convex then plane or depressed, 

 gibbous or umbonate, leathery, smooth, edge even and incurved ; 

 flesh white. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, solid or stuffed, 

 attenuated from the thickened base, jibrillose, whitish, zoned witJi 

 crowded spots of the same colour as the pileus. Gills deeply 

 decurrent, single, rather crowded, white then light-yellow. 



Odour sweet and pleasant. Growing in large patches, singly or two or 

 three together. 



