408 FUNGUS-FLOE A. 



greyisli-tan with a tinge of olive; gills slightly decurrent, 

 2 lines broad, crowded, plane ; stem about 1 J in. long, 4-6 

 lines thick, nearly equal, longitudinally rugulose, firm, 

 greyish. 



Agaricus inornahis, Sow., t. 342 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 46 ; Cke., 

 Illustr., pi. 246a (copied from Sowerby). 



Among grass. 



A species that has not been met with since Sowerby's time, 

 and consequently not well understood. 



Clitocybe hirneola. Fr. 



Pileus about J in. across, flesh thin, plane then depressed, 

 umbilicate, very even, shining, slightly viscid when fresh, 

 cuticle minutely silky, hoary ; tough, dry, grey then whit- 

 ish; gills slightly decurrent, crowded, thin, rather broad, 

 greyish-white; stem up to 2 in. long, scarcely 1 line thick, 

 equal, flexuous, elastic, glabrous, grey, apex with white 

 meal ; spores elliptical, greyish- white, 5 x 3 /x. 



Agaricus (Clitocyhe) hirneolus, Fries, Epicr., p. 58 ; Cke., 

 Illustr., pi. 246 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 46. 



Among moss and grass by roadsides, &c. 



Small, gregarious, tongh, but not hygrophanous, 



Var. major, Fries, Monogr., i. p. 103. 



Pileus, IJ in. broad, undulated, somewhat zoned, whitish, 



** Pileus violet or rufescent. 



Clitocybe cyanophaea. Fr. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, rather flesh}' ; convex then plane, 

 obtuse, glabrous, brownish with a blue tinge ; gills deeply 

 decurrent, crowded, violet becoming pale; stem about 3 in. 

 long, h in. across at the thickened base, attenuated up- 

 wards, bluish when young, apex abruptly white, solid, 

 glabrous. 



Agaricus (^Clitocybe) cyanoioliaeus^ Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 82. 



Agaricus nudus^ Harz , t. 30. 



In woods, &c. 



Somewhat resembling Triclwloma nudum, but distinct in 

 the deeply decurrent gills, &c. 



Var. Pengelleyi, B. & Br., Cke., Hdbk., p. 46 ; Cke., H- 

 lustr., pi. 264. 



