270 CLITOCYBE 



809. C. comitialis (Pers.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 47, lower figs. 



Comitialis, belonging to the comitia. 



P. 25 cm., umber fuliginous, almost becoming black, fleshy, convex, 

 then plane, obtuse, smooth, somewhat moist. St. 4-7 cm. x 6-15 mm., 

 concolorous, equally attenuated upwards, elastic, smooth. Gills white, 

 adnato-decurrent, horizontal, plane, crowded, thin. Flesh white, firm, 

 compact. Spores white, elliptical, 6-7 x 4/u,, 1-guttulate. Pine woods. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



810. C. obscurata Cke. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 5, fig. C. 



Obscurata, darkened. 



P. 5 cm., greyish umber, plane, then infundibuliform, moist, smooth. 

 St. 3-4 cm. x 6-8 mm., concolorous, slightly attenuated downwards, 

 sometimes substriate. Gills white, decurrent, rather distant. Spores 

 white, siibelliptical, 3 x 1-5-2/n. Smell of meal. Amongst grass and 

 dead leaves. Sept. Rare. 



811. C. gangraenosa Fr. ydyypaiva, a gangrene. 

 P. 4-8 cm., whitish, tinged with bistre, or livid, sometimes green, 



fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, white, pulverulent, then covered ivith 

 brownish hairs especially at the margin, then naked, variegated, or 

 streaked. St. 4-5 x 1 cm., white, subbulbous, soft, striate,, or slightly 

 sulcate, curved, sometimes excentric. Gills dingy white, subdecurrent, 

 arcuate, very crowded. Flesh white, becoming blackish or spotted with 

 black. Spores white. Smell stinking, foetid. Woods, and larch planta- 

 tions. Oct. Nov. Rare. 



var. nigrescens (Lasch) Cke. Nigrescens, becoming black. 



Differs from the type in its whitish colour, and rather sweet smell. 

 Larch plantations. Rare. 



812. C. polia Fr. (= Paxittus inornatus (Sow.) Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 48, 

 fig. 1. TroXta, grey. 



P. 2-5 cm., grey, fleshy, convexo-plane, regular, smooth ; margin 

 white, incurved. St. 39 x -5-1 cm., greyish white, equal, base sub- 

 bulbous, smooth. Gills white, decurrent, very crowded, very narrow, 

 1 mm. broad. Flesh greyish, becoming white. Spores white, "6-8 x 3 

 4/u," Sacc. Caespitose. Woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



813. C. inornata (Sow.) Fr. (== Paxillus inornatus (Sow.) Quel.) 

 Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 155. Inornatus, unadorned. 



P. 4-8 cm., cinereous grey, then somewhat tan colour, fleshy, convex, 

 then plane and depressed, sometimes slightly gibbous; margin at 

 first involute, pubescent, striate with evanescent veins. St. 4-6 cm. x 8- 

 12 mm., concolorous, subequal, fibrillosely tomentose, base white, floe- 

 cose. Gills concolorous, rounded behind, adnate, or adnato-decurrent, 



