414: FUNGUS-FLORA. 



nently white ; stem about 2 in. long, 3-5 lines thick, smooth, 

 tough, elastic, naked, spongy and solid, white. 



Agaricus {Chjtocijbe) cerrusatus, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 92 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 49; Cke., Illustr., pi. 121. 



Among dead leaves, &c. 



Taste mild, smell almost obsolete. Stem rather thickened 

 at the base and often tomentose. Pileus said to be gibbous, 

 but not umbonate nor becoming rufescent. Gills not 

 changing to yellowish. (Fries.) 



Entirely w^hite, inodorous, taste sweet, stem solid, fibrous, 

 elastic, 2-3 in. long, base thickened and more or less covered 

 with white down, naked upwards, smooth. Peleus fleshy, 

 convex then expanded, obtuse or gibbous, 2-3 in. broad, even, 

 glabrous, floccosely fibril! ose at first, margin involute, downy. 

 Flesh soft, white. Gills adnate then slightly decurrent, 

 crowded, thin, quite entire, narrow, never tinged with 

 yellow. (Fries.) 



Var. difformis. Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 8G; Cke., Hdbk., p. 

 49; Cke., Illustr. pi. 122. 



Caespitose ; often very large, j^ileus undulately lobed ; 

 stem short, longitudinally rugose ; gills at length pallid. 



The pileus is sometimes adpressedly floccose at first, from 

 2 to 7 in. across in the same cluster, the larger stems 1 in. 

 thick and long. (Fries.) 



Clitocybe phyllophila. Fr. 



AVhitish-tan. Pileus 1-3 in. across, rather fleshy, convex 

 then plane, becoming umbilicate and depressed, sometimes 

 wavy, smooth and even; gills thin subdistant, white then 

 tinged with ochre, rather broad, very slightly decurrent; 

 stem 2-3 in. long, equal, stufi'ed then hollow, whitish, tough, 

 silky-fibrillose ; spores 6 X 4 /x. 



Agaricus (^Clytocyhe) ^)hjlloi:>Mlu8, Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 87 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., t. 81. (Colour too white, both pileus and 

 gills.) 



Among leaves in woods, &c. 



Somewhat caespitose, tough, not at all hygrophanous, 

 smell scarcely observable. Stem elastic, fibrous externally, 

 stuifed with a spongy pith which sometimes disappears, 

 leaving the stem hollow, always tough, base incurved (but 

 not bulbous) downy, from 2-3 in. long, for the rest very 



