38 AGAEICINI. 



89. Agaxicus (Clitocybe) dealbatus. P. ''Ivory Clitocybe." 



'White ; pileus rather fleshy, convex, then plane, and revolute, 

 even, smooth, somewhat shining; stem stufifed, fibrous, thin, equal, 

 sub-pruinose above ; gills adnate, crowded, thin, white. — Fr. 

 Epicr.p.C:,^. Eng. Fl.Y.p.36. Sow. 1. 123. Cooke, B. F. t. 10 a. 

 Gard. Citron. (1861), |?. 312. Smith E. M., /. 27. Hogg ^ Johnst. 

 t. 10. 



In fir plantations, &c. Esculent. 



Gregarious ; pileus 1 in. or more, sometimes cup-shaped, innato-prninose 

 under a lens, dirty white, cream coloured, or roseate ; gills adnate, at first 

 sliirhtly emarginate, brittle, white, moderately broad ; stem 1 in. high, 2 lines 

 thick, often curved, farinaceous, stuffed, occasionally hollow above when old; 

 odour fungoid ; spores white, round. A variety sometimes occurs on old mush- 

 room beds, which is cfespitose, 1-2 in. or more across, lobed and undulate. 

 Spores -00016 X '00007 in.— IF. G. S. 



90 Agaricus (Clitocybe) gallinaceus. Scop. "Acrid 



Clitocybe." 



White, acrid ; pileus somewhat fleshy, convex, then depressed, 

 even, dry, opaque ; stem solid, equal, thin, even ; gills sub-decur- 

 rent, crowded, thin. — Fr. Epicr. p. 63. Bolt. t. 4, /. 2 ? Huss. 1, t. 

 39. 



In pastures. Common. Strong odour. 



Pileus opaque, dirty white, about 1 in. across j stem 2 in. in length. 



B. Diformes — ^pileus irregular. 



Sect. 1. Pileus cinereous or dark brown. 

 91. Agaricus (Clitocybe) elixus. Sow. "Sodden Clitocybe." 



Pileus umbonate, at first convex, at length variously depressed, 

 dingy, minutely tomentose and streaked ; stem even, nearly of the 

 same colour as the pileus ; gills decurrent, distant, white. — Sow. 

 t. 172. Berk. Outl.p. 10^, no. 82. Ann. N.H. no. 264. 



In woods. Oct. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, at first strongly umbonate, obconical, at length flat, 

 or even depressed, wdth the border flexuous. not the least involute ; disc fuli- 

 ginous, very minutely virgate, border whitish, with dingy sodden spots, not 

 viscid; stem 1 in. high, f in. thick, or 2 in. high, \ in. thick, dingy, like the 

 pileus, clothed with matted down, which reaches to the base of the gills, often 

 smooth at the base, which is buried amongst leaves, solid, mottled within, 

 slightly discoloured beneath the cuticle ; gills very distant, decurrent, white, 

 interstices more or less veined.— ^1/. /. B. 



