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silvery lustre ; stem solid, stout, smooth, or flocculose at the apex ; 

 gills free, then uncinate adnexed, somewhat distant, unspotted. — 

 Fries Summ. Veg. Scan. p. 274. 



In shady places, heading. 



Stem sometimes equal, sometimes bulbous, \ in. thick. Pileus 

 3 in. broad. 

 Agaricus (Clitocybe) nigrescens. Lasch. " Blackish Clitocybe." 



Whitish ; pileus thin, soft, at first convex, obtuse, then plane, stlb- 

 umbonate, and somewhat depressed ; stem solid, tomentose ; gills 

 thin, decurrent, very much crowded, narrow. — Lasch. Linn., Vol. iv., 

 No. 521. B. cj- Br., Ann. N. H., No. 1199. 



In larch plantations. W. Gr. S. 



Pileus 2-3 in. broad ; stem 1^-lJ in. long, 2-3 lin. thick. Odour 

 rather sweet, taste unpleasant. 



Agaricus (Clitocybe) toxnatus. Fr. " Regular Clitocybe." 



White. Pileus fleshy, thin, orbicular, plane, sub-depressed, 

 smooth, shining ; stem stuffed, equal, smooth, somewhat striated ; 

 gills decurrent, adnate, rather crowded, plane. — Fr. 8. M. i.p. 91. 

 Fr. Ep. p. 62. B. $ Br., N. H., No. 1200. 



Amongst grass at the foot of old decayed elm stumps. Oct. 

 Leicestershire. 



Small, very regular, inodorous, stem slender, firm, pubescent at 

 the base. Disk of pileus darker. 



Agaricus (Clitocybe) orbatus. Fr. " Grey-gilled Clitocybe." 



Pileus submembranaceous, umbilicate, then infundibuliforra, 

 smooth, hygrophanous ; margin at length striate ; stem hollow, 

 equal, tough, smooth, cinereous brown ; gills decurrent, distant, at 

 first dark-grey, then frosted with white. — Fr. Ep. p. 74. Bull. t. 

 248, /. c. B. $ Br., Ann. N. H. No. 1200.* Buxb. iv., t. 3,f. 1. 



In pine woods. Nov. Ely. 



Pileus blackish-brown. 



Agaricus ^(Clitocybe) membranaceus. Fr. " Membranaceous 

 Clitocybe." 



Pileus infundibuliform, brick red, even, membranaceous ; stem 

 fistulose, naked, attenuated upwards; gills decurrent, pallid. — Fr., 

 El. p. 13. Fl. Dan., t. 1012. Fr. Ep. p. 68. B. $ Br., Ann. 

 N.H.,No. 1201. 



In pine woods. Street, Somerset. 



Fries, in his Epicrisis, regards this as a form of Ag. infundibuli- 

 formis. 



Agaricus (Clitocybe) parilis. Fr. u Flocculose Clitocybe." 



Pileus somewhat fleshy, convexo-plane, atomate, flocculose; disc 

 depressed; margin deflexed, involute; stem stuffed, fibrous, tough, 

 rather firm, naked, dingy ; gills deeply decurrent, crowded, narrow, 

 grey becoming whitish. — Fr. S. M. i.p. 168. Pers. 31. E. t. 26,/. 7. 

 Fr. Ep. p. 69. B. cj- Br. Ann. N.H., No. 1202. 



By the side of plantations. Coed. Coch. 



Slightly hygrophanous, but not becoming white. 



