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brownish at the base, the brown colour penetrating the flesh to the centre, 

 solid, rather brittle, pulverulento-squamulose at the apex, subfibrilloso-rimose 

 below, with a little down at the base. Spores white, round. — M. J. B. 



80. Agaricus (Tricholoma) subpulverulentus. Pers. '-Lus- 



trous Tricholoma." 



Pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded or depressed, even, with 

 an innate, white, pruinose lustre ; margin inflexed ; stem solid, 

 equal, smooth, somewhat striate ; gills rounded (without a tooth), 

 crowded, narrow, white. — -Fr, Epicr.p. 52. Huss. ii. ^.39. Ann. 

 N.H. no. 669. 



In pastures. Oct. 



Pileus 2 in. across. Dirty white, or greyish, with a white lustre. Spores 

 •0001 X -00018 in.— TF. G. S. 



Sub-Gen. 5. Clitocybe. Fr. S. M. i. p. 78. 



Pileus generally fleshy in the disc, obtuse, plane or depressed, 

 hygrophanous, or not hygrophanous ; stem confluent and homo- 

 geneous with the hymenophore, elastic, with a fibrous outer 

 coat, covered with minute fibres ; gills acutely adnate, or decur- 

 rent, — Fl. 11.^ fig. 5. 



Hab. All are terrestrial. 



The species are generally small, though some are very large ; many posses;? 

 an agreeable odour, but few only are known to be edible. Most of the species 

 appear late in the autumn or in early winter, — W. G. S. 



A. Disciformes — pileus flattened. 



Sect. 1. Pileus cinereous or tawny. 



81. Agaricus (Clitocybe) nebulaxis. Batsch. " Clouded Clitocybe." 



Pileus fleshy, compact, convex, then expanded, obtuse, even, 

 at first clouded with grey, then naked ; stem stufi'ed, firm, fibril- 

 loso-striate ; gills somewhat decnrrent, arcuate, crowded, white, 

 then pallid. — Batsch. f. 193. Eng.Fl. Y.p. 34. Fr. Epicr.p. 55. 

 Smith E.M.f. 24. Fl. Dan. t. 1734. Gard. Chron. (1860)i?. 145, 

 fig. Bull. t. 400. Ag. turgidus, Grev. t. 9. Huss. ii. t. 9. Badh. i. 

 t. 9,/. 1, ii. t. 4,/. 2. Berk. exs. no. 2. 



In woods. Common. Esculent. [United States.] 



Stem Sin. long, about an in. thick, fibrilloso-striate, white. Pileus fleshy, 

 3-5 in. broad, clouded with srrey, or dingy brown, at length grey, sometimes 

 pruinose. Spores '00017 X^-0001 in.— IF. G. S. 



