282 CLITOCYBE 



855. C. sinopica Fr. Sinopica, of Sinope, where red lead is found. 

 P. 3-5 cm., brick-red, becoming paler, fleshy, piano-depressed, 



slightly or deeply umbilicate, then repand, flocculose and bibulous, 

 then rimosely rivulose and broken up into squamules ; margin undu- 

 late, silky. St. 3-5 x -5-1 cm., concolorous, equal, firm, flbrillosely 

 striate. Gills white, becoming yellow, decurrent, arcuate, very crowded, 

 3-4 mm. broad. Flesh white, reddish under the cuticle, thick at the 

 disc. Spores white, subglobose, 89 x 6 7/z,. Smell strong, of new 

 meal. Heaths, woods, and burnt ground. May Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



856. C. parilis Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 48, fig. 6. Parilis, equal. 

 P. 1-5-3 cm., fuscous, then greyish white, slightly fleshy, convex, 



then plane and depressed at the disc, or umbilicate, disc atomate, or 

 flocculose; margin involute, deflexed. St. 2-5 cm. x 3-6 mm., fuligi- 

 nous, becoming fuscous grey , tough, equal, smooth. Gills grey, becoming 

 whitish, deeply decurrent, very crowded, narrow. Flesh greyish, becoming 

 white. Spores white, oblong, 9 x 3/z, 1-2-guttulate ; "greyish in the 

 mass, subglobose, 6x 5/>t" Rick. Woods, and hilly pastures. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



**P. coloured, or pallid, glabrous, moist in wet weather. 



857. C. gilva Fr. (= Clitocybe subinvoluta Batsch sec. Quel.) 



Gilva, pale yellow. 



P. 410 cm., pale yellowish, fleshy, compact, convex, then depressed, 

 very obtuse, smooth, dull, moist, polished and shining when dry, often 

 spotted as with drops; margin very involute, swollen, villose. St. 

 2-5-5 x 1-2-5 cm., paler than the p., fleshy, subequal, smooth, base 

 villous. Gills pallid, then ochraceous especially at the edge, decurrent, 

 thin, narrow, arcuate, often branched and anastomosing. Flesh con- 

 colorous, compact, at length fragile. Spores white, globose, 4 6/u, 

 punctate. Pine woods. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



858. C. subinvoluta W. G. Sm. non Batsch. Saund. & Sm. t. 36. 



Subinvoluta, somewhat rolled in. 



P. 5-10 cm., creamy flesh colour, fleshy, convex, then plane, or 

 depressed, gibbous, or umbonate, leathery, margin incurved. St. 

 5-10 x 1-5-2 cm., pinkish flesh colour, zoned with spots, attenuated 

 upwards from the subbulbous base, fibrillose. Gills white, then 

 yellowish, deeply decurrent, broad, rather crowded. Flesh buff-white, 

 darker below, thick, firm. Spores white, pip-shaped, 6-7 x 4-5/n, 

 1-guttulate. Smell and taste pleasant. Edible. Pastures, and under 

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



Ag. subinvolutus Batsch = Paxillus involutus (Batsch) Fr. var. sub- 

 involutus (Batsch) W. G. Sm. 



