36 AGAEIOINI. 



82. Agaiicus (Clitocybe) inornatus. Sow. " Grey Clitocybe." 



Pileus fleshy, plane or depressed, obtuse, even, smootli ; cuticle 

 separable ; stem solid, nearly equal, smooth, firm, grey, as well 

 as the adnate, plane, at length decurrent, crowded gills. — Sow. t. 

 342. Fr. Epicr. p. 57. Eng. Fl. v. p. 37. 



Amongst grass. 



Pileus Sin. broad, fleshy, plane, or subdepressed, margin turned in. Gills 

 of the same colour as the pileus. Stem 2 in. long, \ in. thick, paler than the 

 pileus.— J/./. 5. 



Sect. 2. Pileus brightly coloured. 



83. Agaricus (Clitocybe) vernicosus. Fr. "Varnished Clitocybe." 



Pileus fleshy, depressed, obtuse, even, smooth, shining ; stem 

 stuffed, equal, short, yellow, as well as the adnate, slightly de- 

 current, rather distant gills. — Fr. Epicr. p. 60. Berk. Out. p. 108. 

 Sow. t. 366. 



In fir woods. 



Not found since the time of Sowerby. Pileus 3 in. across, pinkish or tawny. 

 Stem short, yellow. 



84. Agaiicus (Clitocybe) odoxus. Bull. " Sweet Clitocybe." 



Dirty green, tough. Pileus fleshy, at length plane, even, sub- 

 repand, smooth ; stem stuff'ed, elastic, unequal, smooth, base in- 

 crassated ; gills adnate, scarcely crowded, broad, pallid. — Sow. t. 

 42. Price, f. 10. Bull. t. 176, Db6,f.S. Grev.t. 28. Fl.Dan.t. 

 1611. Fr. S.M. \.p. 90. Eng.Fl.^.p. 36. Kromhh. t.67,f. 20-22. 

 Berk. exs. no. 6. 



In woods. Aug. — Nov. Strong smell of aniseed. 



[Carolina, U.S.] 



Pileus Sin. broad, plano-convex, with or without an umbo, smooth, lurid 

 pale green, sometimes here and there whitish, so as to appear zoned, fleshy, 

 but rather watery, flesh dull dirty white, margin not striate, but sometimes 

 transparent, in the young plant inflected, tomentose, gills pale, rather waved, 

 decurrently adnate, the interstices wrinkled. Stem 2 in. high, 4 lines thick, 

 firm, somewhat flexuous, subfibrillose, with a little scattered down, stuffed, 

 attenuated towards the base, which is downy, and furnished with strong- 

 branched, greenish, or whitish roots. — M.J.B. Spores nearly spherical 

 •00025 in.— TF.G^.^S^ 



Sect. 3. Pileus white. 



85. Agaricus (Clitocybe) cerussatus. Fr. " White-lead Clito- 



cybe." 



White. Pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded, obtuse, even, 

 moist, soon smooth ; stem spongy, solid, tough, elastic, naked ; 



