64 A CATALOGUE OF ESCULENT BRITISH FUNGI. 



Section. Flesh tliickish centrally, brownish, tough. Stem 

 stuffed, fibrous. Gills pallid, or brownish ; narrow, thin, unequal, 

 numerous, pointed at both ends, decurrent. Sweet-scented. Taste 

 nitlier astringent. Spores white. 



Obs. Much like Cli. cj-athiformis ; perhaps a trifle more commenclaLle. It 

 dries well. The two species are not unhke some suspicious Clitocybes, and 

 great care is necessary iu distinguishing them, which would tend to deter from 

 attempting to use them.— Tr. D. H. 



(18.) AQARICUS LACCATUS; Clitocybe laccata; The Little 

 Violet. 



Habitat. Among dead leaves. In small groups. 



Seaso7i. June to October. Very common. 



Pileus. One to two inches across, violet, mauve, or dull magenta, 

 even yellowish ; pruinose in dry weather, dark and brilliant 

 in wet, fading when dry; convex, disc depressed. Margin 

 incurved, often sinuate. 



Stem. One to six inches high, colour of pileus, slender, equal, 

 but a little incrassate at base, fibrous, tomentose, naked. 



Section. Flesh thin, membranaceous, colour of pileus. Stem 



stuffed, fibrous. Gills colour of pileus, broad behind, thick, distant, 



unequal, adnate or sub-decurrent. Odourless. Taste mild. 



Spores white. 



Obs. Plentiful enough, though small. May be dressed like Oreads, though 

 inferior to them. — W. D. II . 



(19.) AGARICUS MAXIMUS ; Clitocyhe maxima ; The White 

 Giant. 



Habitat. In woods and wastes ; on old hedge-banks in meadows. 

 In groups or rings. 



Season. July to October. Not uncommon. 



Pileus. Six to fourteen inches across, or more, white, or dirty 

 Avhite; broadly infundibuliform, disc much sunk. Cuticle silky, 

 becoming squamulose. Margin sub-sulcate, thin, irregular, rimose. 



Stem. Two to three inches high, white, brownish where bruised, 

 firm, smooth, thick, naked, incrassate below. 



Section. Flesh white, thick centrally, firm. Stem solid, hard. 

 Gills white or creamy, close, crowded, serrulate, forked, decurrent. 

 Odour farinaceous. Taste bland. Spores white. 



Obs. The two Bpeoics of Wliite Giant and the Fuuncl-cap are probably most 



