Massee. — On the Fungus Flora of Neiv Zealand. 319 



green, &c. The margin of the pileus is incurved and crenulate 

 when young. Known among alhed forms by the thicker 

 almost flat pileus and the broad somewhat triangular very 

 distant gills. 



21. Clitocybe, Fries. 



Pileus generally fleshy at the disc, and becoming thin towards 

 the margin, flexible or tough, for the most part piano-de- 

 pressed or infundibuliform, margin involute ; gills decur- 

 rent, edges thin, entire ; stem central, externally fibrouS; 

 somewhat elastic, stufi'ed, often becoming hollow ; veil ob- 

 solete ; spores hyaline, elliptical or subglobose. 



Clitocybe, Fries, Syst. Myc, i, p. 70 (as a subgenus of 

 Agaricits). 



Differs from Omplialia, its closest ally, in the stem 

 being fibrous externally, and not polished or cartilaginous. 

 The gills are also usually much less decurrent, being, in fact, 

 sometimes only slightly so Ple^irotus differs in the lateral or 

 excentric stem, and Hygrophorus in the waxy gills. Finally, 

 Cantharellus is separated by the narrow, distant, thick-edged 

 gills. Growing on the ground. 



62. Clitocybe infundibuliformis, Schaeffer, t. 212 ; Flora N.Z., 



ii., p. 173 ; Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, p. 602 ; Austr. Fung., p. 15 ; 



Sacc, Syll. v., no. 595. 



Pileus convex when young, then depressed, umbo blunt, 

 margin incurved, at maturity becoming softer and flaccid and 

 completely infundibuliform or funnel-shaped, up to 8 cm. 

 across; disc fleshy, remainder thin, firm when young, yel- 

 lowish flesh-colour, then buff, becoming pallid or whitish ; 

 gills decurrent, rather crowded, narrowed to both ends, soft, 

 white; spores 5-6 x 3-4 ^u,; stem 7-10 cm. long, 6-10 mm. 

 thick, stuffed, externally firm, elastic, attenuated upwards, 

 rarely equal, pallid, base with white down. 



Among moss and grass, in pastures and woods. Northern 

 Island, New Zealand. Europe. 



Smell pleasant. Colour changing from pale -reddish 

 through buff to white when old, but not white at first. 



22. Hygrophorus, Fries. 



Pileus fleshy, often lobed, and frequently viscid or moist ; 

 gills decurrent, adnate or adnexed, often distant and thick 

 at the base, but margin always thin and entire ; stem 

 central ; spores smooth. Entire fungus very brittle. 

 Hygrophorus, Fries, Syst. Myc, i., p. 98. 

 A very natural genus in spite of the various modes of gill 

 attachment. The plants are often brightly coloured, very 

 brittle, soon decaying ; allied to Cantharellus, but differing in 



