CLITOCYBE 275 



*****P. whitish, white, or becoming white. 



830. C. rivulosa (Pers.) Fr. Barla, Champ. Alp. Marit. t. 51, figs. 16- 

 23. Rivulosa, rivulose. 



P. 2-5-5 cm.., flesh colour, becoming whitish, or rarely fuscous, slightly 

 fleshy, convexo-plane, then depressed, undulato-lobed, repand, minutely 

 tomentose, at length rivulosely-streaked', margin at first incurved, villous. 

 St. 3-5 cm. x 4-8 mm., concolorous, tough, elastic, equal, somewhat 

 fibrillose, minutely tomentose. Gills flesh colour, becoming whitish, 

 adnate, then subdecurrent, obliquely acute behind, broad, somewhat 

 crowded. Flesh white, soft, spongy. Spores white, elliptical, 4-6 x 2- 

 3/z, 1-guttulate. Smell and taste pleasant. Poisonous. Heaths, and 

 pastures. Aug. Nov. Very common, (v.v.) 



var. Neptunea (Batsch) Fr. Neptune, god of the sea. 



Differs from the type in its smaller size. 



831. C. cerussata Fr. (= Clitocybe tornata Fr. sec. Quel.) Barla, 

 Champ. Alp. Marit. t. 51, figs. 24-28. 



Cerussata, painted with white-lead. 



Entirely white. P. 5-8 cm., with a white-lead appearance, fleshy, 

 convex, then expanded, obtuse, or gibbous, smooth, at first fioccoso- 

 fibrillose; margin involute, villous. St. 5-8 x -5-1 cm., fleshy -flbrous, 

 elastic; base thickened, more or less white tomentose. Gills adnate. 

 then slightly decurrent, very crowded, thin. Flesh white, soft, compact. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 5-6 x 3-4/n. Taste and smell pleasant. 

 Poisonous. Deciduous, and coniferous woods. April Oct. Not un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



var. difformis (Schum.) Fr. Difformis, deformed. 



Caespitose, often gigantic. P. 5-18 cm., undulato-lobed, often at 

 first sprinkled with flocci. St. 2-5 x 2-5 cm., sulcate, or longitudinally 

 wrinkled. Gills at length pallid. Spores white, 4 x 3/u,. Rich ground, 

 and gardens. Oct. Uncommon. 



var. obtexta (Lasch) Fr. Obtexta, covered. 



Differs from the type in its snow-white colour, the fibrillose texture of 

 the subviscid p., the tomentose St., and the narrow gills. Heaps of leaves. 

 Eare. 



832. C. phyllophila Fr. Barla, Champ. Alp. Marit. t. 52, figs. 1-6. 



<j)v\\ov, a leaf; <t\o9, loving. 



P. 5-10 cm., tan, or cream colour, becoming pale white, fleshy, con- 

 vex, then piano-depressed, obtuse, often excentric and repand, hoary 

 with superficial villose down; margin silky. St. 5-8 cm. x 5-8 mm., 

 concolorous, elastic, fibrous, equal, villous at the base, incurved. Gills 



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