Clitocybe 



AGARICACE/E 



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152. T. putidum Karst. (putidus, stinking) a c. 



P. subumbonate, olive-grey or brown, hoary or sprinkled white- 

 silky. St. grey, white pruinose. G. crowded, adnexo-free, 

 ashy-grey. 



Odour strong, rancid. Woods, pine. Oct.-Nov. 2 x 2j x | in. 



VII. CLITOCYBE Quel. 

 (From the decurrent gills ; Gr. klitos, a declivity, kube, a head.) 



Veil universal, imperfect or obsolete, manifest as pruina, flock, 

 silkiness or squamules on the pileus and stem. Hymen op hore 

 confluent and homogeneous with the fleshy stem. Films varying 



Fig. 16. — Section of Clitocybe uebularis Quel. 

 One-third natural size. 



infundibuliform to piano-depressed, usually fleshy at the disc, 

 margin at first involute. Stem central, simple, without cartila- 

 ginous bark. Gills decurrent, rarely adnate, with an acute edge. 

 Spores elliptical or subglobose, smooth. (Fig. 16.) 



The species usually grow on the ground, but exceptions occur in 

 185, 201, 208, 212, and 223, which rarely grow on logs, stumps or 

 rotten wood ; they commonly grow in clusters, many are fragrant 

 and appear in the late autumn or early winter ; a few are 

 edible. 



Must not be confounded with Hygrophorus, where the gills are 

 thick and often of a wax-like substance, or with Ca?itharellus, where 

 the gills are very thick and fold-like, or Lent'mus, Panus or Xerotus, 

 where the substance is leathery and the habitat usually stumps. 



Species 153 — 224 



