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disc. Spores white, elliptical, 6 x 3-4/z, 1-guttulate. On the ground, 

 and on stumps. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



847. C. cryptarum (Letell.) B. & Br. Crypta, a cellar. 

 Caespitose. P. 34 cm., brown, somewhat conical, then depressed, 



spotted, fioccose. St. 6-9 x 2 cm., white, attenuated upwards, more 

 or less compressed, somewhat striate, virgate. Gills white, subdecurrent, 

 arcuate, narrow. Flesh of stem mottled. Spores white. Taste insipid. 

 Sawdust. Oct. Rare. 



848. C. monstrosa (Sow.) Gillet. Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 283. 



Monstrosa, strange. 



Often caespitose. P. 3-10 cm., white, opaque as if whitewashed, often 

 tinged with ochre, fleshy, convex, umbonate, then waved and lobed; 

 margin incurved. St. 2-6 x 2-2-5 cm., concolorous, compressed, 

 streaked, downy-squamulose above, slightly rooting. Gills white, or 

 cream colour, scarcely rounded behind, not truly decurrent, rather 

 distant, broad, margin waved. Flesh white, thick at the disc. Spores 

 white, elliptical, 7-9 x 5/x. On the ground. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



849. C. opaca (With.) Fr. Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 142. Opaca, shady. 

 Caespitose, rarely solitary, entirely white. P. 3-7 cm., fleshy, con- 

 vex, then expanded, umbonate, repand, covered over with a fioccose 

 lustre. St. 3-8 cm. x 5-8 mm., unequal, flexuose, connate at the base, 

 subfibrillose. Gills adnato-decurrent, very crowded, 3-4 mm. wide. 

 Flesh white, thick at the disc. Spores white, elliptical, 6 x 4/n, 

 1-guttulate. Woods, and pastures. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



850. C. occulta Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 1133, t. 1184. Occulta, hidden. 

 P. 5-7 cm., whitish, disc smoky, fleshy, convex, then plane and 



depressed, smooth, but innately streaked, or virgate, viscid] margin 

 whitish. St. 4-6 x 1 cm., white, equal, or slightly expanded into the 

 p., often curved, fibrillosely striate. Gills white, adnate, very slightly 

 decurrent, scarcely emarginate, 5 mm. broad, subdistant. Flesh white, 

 thick at the disc, cartilaginous. Spores white. Gregarious. On 

 charred ground. Nov. Rare. 



7. P. attenuated from a fleshy disc towards the margin, at length 

 infundibuliform, or deeply umbilicate. 



*P. coloured, or becoming pallid, innately floccose, or silky, 

 bibulous, not moist. 



C. gigantea (Sow.) Quel. = Paxillus giganteus (Sow.) Fr. 



851. C. maxima (Fl. Wett.) Fr. (= Clitocybe geotropa (Bull.) Quel.) 



Maxima, greatest. 



