Clitocybe AGARIC AC E^E 47 



154. C. elavipes Gill, (from the club-shaped stem • clava^ a club, 



pes, a foot) a b c. 



P. flat, sooty-brown or grey ; marg. often white. St. smoky-livid, 



somewhat fibrillose. G. subdistant, deeply decurrent, white. 



Flesh hyaline-whitish. 



Odour mild, pleasant. Woods, spruce-fir, pine, beech ; common. July-Nov. 

 2^ x 2§ x h in. There is a white variety. The pileus is sometimes 4 in. 

 or more in diam. 



154a. C. eomitialis Gill, (perhaps from its being one of a number of 



allied forms which meet at this position in Clitocybe) a. 



P. obtuse, soon plane, even, glabrous, somewhat moist, not 



hygrophanous, sooty-brown, almost black. St. stuffed, attenuate 



upwards, obconic, glabrous, sooty-brown. G. subdecurrent, 



horizontal, thin, crowded, white. Flesh white or whitish. 



Odour none. Pine - woods, damp places amongst moss. Autumn, 

 if x 3| X T 5 ^ in. Firmer and smaller than 154. 



155. C. gangrenosa Gill, (from its ulcerous appearance ; gangrtzna, 



an ulcer) a b c. 

 P. livid, at first white-pulverulent. St. slender to stout, sooty- 

 grey. G. sub- or sinuato-decurrent. 



Taste insipid, unpleasant ; odour sometimes strongly fetid, meal-like but 

 nauseous, sometimes strong and not unpleasant. Woods and plantations, 

 larch ; rare. Oct.-Nov. 3§ X 3$ X § in. More or less changing within 

 and without to slate-colour or black ; the flesh changes from livid to 

 indigo, then black ; sepia-black when dry. Must not be confounded 

 with 1168. 



155a. C. polia Karst. (Gr. polios, grey) a b. 



P. glabrous, not hygrophanous, pale grey or pale olive-brownish ; 



marg. whitish. St. solid, slightly attenuate upwards, white, 



pale brownish below. G. somewhat deeply decurrent, closely 



crowded, very narrow, white. Flesh white, pale brown in P. 



Caespitose, usually in small clusters, but sometimes 1 ft. 4 in. in diam. 

 Woods. Autumn. 2 x 3 J X § in.t 



156. C. inornata Gill, (inornatus, unadorned) a b c. 



P. with a separable livid-brownish pellicle, which frequently 

 cracks from the marg. upwards and peels up, unchanging livid. 

 St. greyish or brownish. G. decurrent, colour as St. Flesh 



^rey. 



Odour mushroom-like. Fields, woods ; under cedars ; rare. Oct.-Nov. 

 4 x 2J x i in. 



156a. C. luseina Karst. (from the often small eye-like pileus and the 

 solitary habit ; luscinus, one-eyed) a. 

 P. somewhat fleshy, even, edge spreading, glabrous, grey on a 

 pale reddish or buff ground, purple or slate-brown when young ; 

 marg. striate. St. solid, attenuate downwards, greyish or 

 faintly brownish, white pulverulent. G. subdecurrent, crowded, 

 yellowish- or salmon-whitish, shaded grey. 

 In pastures. Autumn. 2 x 2 X ^ in. 



