CLITOCYBE. 423 



about Ih line broad; stem l|-2 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, 

 equal or" slightly expanded into the pileus, white, iibrillosely 

 striate, often curved, solid. 



Agaricus (Clitocyhe) occultus, Cke., Grev., xix. p. 40 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 382; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1184. 



Gregarious on charred ground. 



Substance while, tough, cartilaginous. Known by the 

 viscid pileus and scarcely or not at all decurrent gills. 



Clitocybe monstrosa. Sow. 



Pileus 1 h-2h in across, flesh rather thick, at first convex 

 and umbonate,"at length waved and lobed, white, opaque as 

 if whitewashed ; margin incurved ; gills scarcely rounded 

 behind, but not truly decurrent, rather distant, white or 

 cream-colour; stem up to 1 in. long, h-l in. thick, com- 

 pressed, solid, streaked, opaque white, slightly rooting, 

 downy-squamulose above. 



Agaricus monstrosus, Sowerby, t. 283; Cke., Hdbk., p. 53 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., jA. 648. 



On the ground. 



Often densely caespitose, and then not compressed. (Cooke.) 



III. INFUXDIBULIFORMES. 



* Pileus coloured, or hecoming imllid, silA-y. 



Clitocybe gigantea. Sow. 



Pileus 6-10 in. across, flesh rather thin in proportion to 

 the size of the fungus, white, or tinged with tan, glabrous, 

 -when moist, slightly flocculose when dry; margin involute 

 then spreading, glabrous, rather coarsely grooved; gills 

 slightly decurrent, broad, very much crowded, branched and 

 -connected by veins, whitish then pale tan-colour, not sepa- 

 3ating spontaneously fiom the hymenophore ; stem 1-2 in. 

 long and nearly the same in thickness, equal, pallid, solid; 

 spores white, 5 X 3 /x. 



Agaricus giganieus, Sow., t. 224. 



Agaricus (Clitocyhc) giganteus, Fries, Monogr., i'., p. 118; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 53; Cke., Illustr., pi. 106. 



Paxillus giganteus, Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 401. 



In woods, &c. 



