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92. Agaricus (Clitocybe) fumosus. P. '■ Smoky Clitocybe." 



Sub-cartilaginous, rigid ; pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded, 

 obtuse, even, naked, turning pale, cuticle adnate ; stem stuffed, 

 unequal, somewhat pruinose above ; gills adnate, rather crowded, 

 grey, or whitish, as well as the stem. — Fr. Epicr.p. 56. Eng.Fl. v. 

 p. 35. Pers.Ic.Pict.t.lJ.?j-i:. Fr. S. MA, jy.SS. 



In woods and wast€ ground. Solitary. [United States.] 



Var. polius. densely and connately caespitose ; pileus convex, 

 then plane, obtuse, smooth, grey ; stem flexuose, smooth ; gills 

 crowded, whitish. — F7\ Epicr. p. 57. Trans. Woolhope Club, 

 1868, p. 246. Saund. ^ Sm. t. 13. 



On charcoal heaps, in woods, round the wrekin, 1868. 



Csespitose. Pileus 22^-3 in, broad, fleshy, but thin on the marg'in, more or 

 less wavy, slightly umbonate, with a thick skin, marked with little pits, so 

 as to present the appearance of inna^^e fibrillse; bistre coloured ; gills rather 

 pale, variously adnate, rounded behind, or emarginate, sometimes almost de- 

 current ; stem 1-2| in. long, §■ in. thick, quite smooth, except at the apex, 

 where it is punctato-squamulose, nearly equal, stuffed. — -E/ig. Fl. Spores 

 nearly spherical "00024 in.— W. G. S. 



Sect. 2. Pileus pallid. 



93. Agaricus (Clitocybe) opacus. With. " Opaque Clitocybe." 



White ; pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded, umbonate, re- 

 pand, even, covered with a floccose shining film ; stem stuffed, 

 unequal, flexuose ; gills adnate, decurrent, very crowded, white. — 

 Fr. Epicr.p. 67. Sow. 1. 14:2 . 



In woods. 



Pileus white, opaque, smooth, nearly flat when expanded, but a little turned 

 down at the edge, and a very small protuberance in the centre, cracking when 

 old, and the skin readily peeling ofi", diameter 1^-2 in. ; stem solid, white, cylin- 

 drical. 2 in. high, ^ in. diameter, filled with a watery, and when old with a 

 brownish pith ; gills fixed, white, very thick set, and very fine, in pairs or in 

 fours. — Withering. 



C. Infundihuliformes — pileus funnel-shaped. 



Sect. 1. Pileus innately flocculose or silky. 



94. Agaricus (Clitocybe) giganteus. Fr. " Giant Clitocybe." 



Pileus infundibuliform, not umbonate, slightly flocculose, white, 

 opaque ; stem equal, thick ; gills white, then yellowish, shortly 

 decurrent. — Fr. Epicr.p.67 . B.^Br. Ann. Nat. Hist. (1866), 

 no.dSl. 



