278 CLITOCYBE 



smooth; margin more or less lobed. St. 8-12 cm. x 12-16 mm., 

 whitish, equal, fibrillose, connate at the base. Gills white, rounded 

 behind, adnate, 4-6 mm. broad, narrower in front, rather crowded. 

 Flesh white, thin. Spores white, globose, 4-5/A. On the ground. 

 Sept. Uncommon. 



840. C. cartilaginea (Bull, non Fr.) Bres. (= Tricholoma loricatum Fr. 

 sec. Bres.) Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 110, 111. 



Cartilaginea, cartilaginous. 



Caespitose or in troops. P. 4-12 cm., fuliginous black, or chestnut 

 fuliginous, becoming paler, fleshy, convex, then expanded, depressed, 

 or gibbosely-umbonate, cuticle cartilaginous. St. 4-8 x 1-1-5 cm., 

 white, becoming greyish, or horn colour, connate at the ventricose base 

 and somewhat rooting, apex white and villosely-furfuraceous, cuticle 

 cartilaginous. Gills white, then straw-, or horn-colour, adnate, or sinuato- 

 adnate, rarely rounded behind, tough, subcartilaginous, crowded, often 

 undulate. Flesh white, firm. Spores white, globose, 6-8/z, 1-guttulate. 

 Smell of mice, or like fresh nuts. Taste sweet, then bitter. Edible. 

 Mixed woods. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



841. C. aggregata (Schaeff.) Fr. (= Tricholoma aggregatum (Schaeff.) 

 Quel.) Schaeff. Icon. t. 305, 306. Aggregata, heaped together. 



Caespitose. P. 7-12 cm., livid-grey, then rufescent, fleshy, convex, 

 then expanded, at first umbonate, then depressed, often excentric, 

 flaccid, somewhat silky-streaked. St. 7-10 x 1-5 cm., white, often 

 rufescent, attenuated downwards, connate at the base, often branched, 

 curved, compressed, subfibrillose. Gills ashy-white, then flesh colour, 

 and becoming light yellow, unequally decurrent, 6-8 mm. broad, thin, 

 crowded. Flesh whitish, thin. Spores white, subglobose, 6-7 x 5-6/z. 

 Smell strong. Oak woods, sawdust heaps, and garden soil. July Oct. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



C. tabescens (Scop.) Bres. = Annillaria mellea (Vahl.) Fr. var. tabescens 

 (Scop.) Rea. 



842. C. elixa (Sow.) Berk. Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 172. Elixa, soaked. 

 Not caespitose. P. 5-8 cm., fuliginous, becoming pale and somewhat 



silky when dry, fleshy, convex, then flattened, or depressed, umbonate, 

 undulato-repand, delicately virgate. St. 3-5 cm. x 10-12 mm., fuligi- 

 nous whitish, firm, subequal, apex velvety. Gills white, unequally de- 

 current, distant, connected by veins, 4 mm. broad. Flesh dingy white, 

 thick at the disc, soft. Spores "white, elliptical, 7 x 4/z" Massee. 

 Woods. Oct. Nov. Not uncommon. 



Ag.fumosus Pers. = Collybia fumosa (Pers.) Quel. 

 C. fumosa Fr. = Tricholoma cinerascens (Bull.) Quel. 



