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plane, at length re volute, undulated, dry, smooth, but innately 

 pruinose under a lens. St. 2-5-3-5 cm. x 8-10 mm., whitish, becoming 

 flesh colour, equal, often ascending, apex white-mealy. Gills greyish, 

 then whitish, adnate, scarcely decurrent, thin, crowded. Flesh white, 

 thin, arid. Spores white, elliptical, 5-6 x 3/ot. Smell and taste 

 pleasant, of new meal. Edible. Woods, and pastures. July Nov. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



var. minor Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 143, t. 173. Minor, smaller. 



Differs from the type in its smaller size. Woods, and heaths. Sept. 

 Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



837. C. gallinacea (Scop.) Fr. Hussey, lUus. Brit. Myc. i, t. 39. 



Gallinacea, pertaining to domestic fowls. 



P. 1-2-5 cm., dingy white, becoming whitish when dry, slightly fleshy, 

 convex, then plane, obtuse, unequal, dry, opaque, pruinose. St. 5- 

 6 cm. x 6-10 mm., white, equal, ascending, or flexuose, excentric, 

 incurved, striate, mealy. Gills white, adnato-decurrent, thin, plane, 

 crowded. Flesh white, thin, compact. Spores white, oblong elliptical, 

 9 x 4/z, 1 2-guttulate. Smell strong, taste bitter. Woods, and pas- 

 tures. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



ft. P. fleshy at the disc, margin thin, at first umbonate, then 

 expanded, depressed, and irregular; generally caespitose. 



C. ampla (Pers.) Fr. = Tricholoma amplum (Pers.) Rea. 

 C. molybdina (Bull.) Fr. = Tricholoma amplum (Pers.) Rea. 



838. C. decastes Fr. (= Tricholoma decastes (FT.)Quel.) Fr.Icon.t.52. 



Se/ea?, a company of ten men. 



Caespitose. P. 10-20 cm., mouse grey, or livid, becoming whitish tan 

 colour when dry, flesh j, fragile, convex, then plane, gibbous, or obtuse, 

 smooth; margin membranaceous, at first incurved, then expanded, 

 very undulate and lobed. St. 7-5-10 x 2-5-4 cm., white, fibrous, con- 

 nate at the base, attenuated, or curved-ascending, often compressed, 

 smooth, rarely pruinose at the apex. Gills white, adnato-decurrent, or 

 sinuate, 6-8 mm. broad, crowded, or subdistant, attenuated towards 

 the margin, often undulated and crenulate at the edge. Flesh white, 

 fragile, thick at the disc, very thin at the margin, scissile. Spores 

 white, globose, 6-8/A. Taste pleasant. Edible. Woods, pastures, and 

 gardens. Oct. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



839. C. subdecastes Cke. & Massee. Cke. Illus. no. 1131, t. 958. , 



Sub, near to; decastes, the species C. decastes. 



Caespitose. P. 3-6 cm., pale ochraceous, becoming paler, and whitish 



towards the margin, fleshy, campanulate, or convex, very obtuse, 



