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Pileus. Four inclies across, white, tinted with fawn or buff ; at 

 first convex, rounded, even, then forming a broad funnel with 

 an umbo in the centre ; surface smooth, satiny. Margin even, 

 or sub-involute. 



Stem. Six inches high, one inch thick, enlarged below, white, 

 fibrillose, perhaps villose below, naked. 



Section. Flesh white, thick, compact. Stem solid, compact. 

 Gills white, then buff, crowded, numerous, simple, pointed at both 

 ends, decurrent. Odour farinaceous. Taste bland. Spores white. 



Obs. A species readily identified, wholesome, and good. It requires rather 

 long cooking, with plenty of moistening. There is nothing bad bearing any close 

 resemblance to it. Funnel-caps have been well tried and much commended. — 

 W. D. H. 



(16.) AGARICUS GIGANTEUS; Clitocybe gigantea; The 

 White Giant. 



Habitat. Grassy banks, hedge-sides, in meadows. Grouped. 



Season. July to October. Not uncommon. 



Pileus. Six to nine inches across, white, opaque ; infundibuli- 

 form, not umbonate ; flocculose, slightly viscid in wet. Margin 

 incurved, at length sulcate. 



Stem. Two to three inches high, one inch thick, equal, obtuse, 

 minutely flocculose, cylindrical, naked, diffused into pileus. 



Section. Flesh white, thick, firm. Stem solid. Gills white, 

 at length ochreish ; narrow, serrulate, forked behind, at length 

 rounded, shortly decurrent. Odourless. Taste bland. Spores 

 white. 



Obs. The difference between this and Cli. maxima (19) appears to me to be 

 so entirely nominal, that I have given them the same English name. They 

 seem to be equally wholesome, and identical in a gastronomic sense. — W. D. H. 



(17.) AGARICUS INFUNDIBULIFORMIS; Clitocybe infundi- 

 buliformis ; The Tan-cap. 



Habitat. On bare ground, amongst moss or leaves, in and 

 about woods. Solitary or in groups. 



Season. July to October. Common. 



Pileus. Two to three inches across, pale tan or cinnamon ; 

 at first convex and umbonate, then funnel-shaped, with an umbo ; 

 dry, elastic, covered with a close web of down. Margin involute, 

 tomentose, then lobulate. 



Stem. Two to three inches high, brownish white, slender, 

 thickened below, soft, elastic, cylindrical, naked. 



