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white, then becoming pale and yellowish, adnate, subdecurrent, 4-6 mm. 

 broad, subdistant. Flesh white, thin. Spores white, elliptical, 6 x 4ju. 

 Taste mild. Poisonous. Woods, especially beech. Sept. Dec. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



833. C. pithyophila (Seer.) Fr. (= Clitocybe cerussata Fr. sec. Quel.) 

 Barla, Champ. Alp. Marit. t. 52, figs. 7-10. 



TUTU?, pine; $1X09, loving. 



P. 5-7-5 cm., dead white when moist, shining whitish when dry, 

 fleshy, thin, rather plane, umbilicate, at length irregularly shaped, 

 repand, undulato-lobed, smooth, flaccid; margin slightly striate when 

 old. St. 45 cm. x 58 mm., white, often compressed, equal, smooth, 

 apex obsoletely, or scarcely pruinose, base white tomentose. Gills 

 always white, adnate, subdecurrent, very crowded, plane, 4-6 mm. 

 broad. Flesh whitish, thin. Spores white, elliptical, 6-7 x 4/A. Smell 

 and taste pleasant. Poisonous. Pine woods. Sept. Nov. Common. 

 (v.v.) 



834. C. tornata Fr. (== Clitocybe cerussata Fr. sec. Quel.) Fr. Icon, 

 t. 51, fig. 1. Tornata, turned in a lathe. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., pure white, fleshy, convex, then becoming plane, at 

 length depressed round the gibbous disc, dry, somewhat silky with a 

 glued film, at length delicately rimoso-rivulose. St. 4 cm. x 4-6 mm., 

 concolorous, tough, equal, or attenuated downwards, round, smooth, 

 base pubescent. Gills white, adnate with a small decurrent tooth, 

 horizontal, plane, very crowded, 2 mm. broad. Flesh white, thick at 

 the disc. Spores white, elliptical, 4-6 x 3-4/z. Taste mild. Poisonous. 

 Woods, and amongst grass. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. opala Fr. Opala, opal. 



Differs from the type in the viscid p. Fir woods. Rare. 



835. C. candicans (Pers.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 51, fig. 3. 



Candicans, shining white. 



Entirely white. P. 2-5 cm., slightly fleshy, convex, then plane, de- 

 pressed, umbilicate, regular, or a little excentric, pruinose, silky, 

 shining. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 2-5 mm., cartilaginous, polished, like an 

 Omphalia, equal, base incurved, villous, rooting. Gills adnate, then 

 decurrent, very thin, crowded, narrow, straight, almost linear. Flesh 

 whitish, thin. Spores white, "elliptical, 4-5 x 2-3 /M, smooth" Rick., 

 "ovoid, 6-7 p,, minutely rough" Quel. Taste mild. Deciduous woods. 

 July Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



836. C. dealbata (Sow.) Fr. Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 123. 



Dealbata, white- washed. 



P. 2-3 cm., whitish, with greyish, or flesh coloured zones towards the 

 margin, shining white when dry, slightly fleshy, tough, convex, then 



