CLITOCYBE 283 



C. spinulosa Stev. & Sm. = Clitocybe subinvoluta W. G. Sm. 

 "Saunders wrongly described the spores as echinulate " 

 W. G. Sm. in litt. 



859. C. geotropa (Bull.) Fr. Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. t. 41, as Agaricus 

 gilvus. yf), earth; rpoTros, turned. 



P. 3-20 cm., tan flesh colour, very fleshy, convex, then piano-de- 

 pressed, generally gibbous, very smooth, moist in wet weather, when 

 young spotted as with drops, the spots vanishing with age; margin 

 involute, thin, pubescent. St. 5-12 x 2-3 cm., white, becoming yellow, 

 fleshy, slightly attenuated upwards, subfibrillose. Gills white, be- 

 coming pale, deeply decurrent, 4-6 mm. broad, somewhat crowded. 

 Flesh white, thick, firm. Spores white, subglobose, 5-7/1,. Smell and 

 taste pleasant. Edible. Woods, and pastures, often forming large 

 rings. Sept. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



860. C. splendens (Pers.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 55, upper figs. 



Splendens, shining. 



P. 5-8 cm., pale yellowish,becoming yellow, somewhat fleshy, convex, 

 then piano-depressed, at length infundibuliform, smooth, shining; 

 margin reflexed, white, mealy. St. 4-5 x 1-2 cm., white, becoming 

 light yellow, or ochraceous, equal, or attenuated upwards, elastic, 

 smooth. Gills white, becoming light yellow, deeply decurrent, thin, 

 crowded, often forked at the base. Flesh white, becoming concolorous, 

 thin at the margin. Spores white, subglobose, 4-6 x 4-5/i, 1-guttu- 

 late, punctate. Smell and taste pleasant. Woods. Sept. Nov. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



861. C. inversa (Scop.) Fr. Barla, Champ. Alp. Marit. t. 60, figs. 6-8. 



Inversa, inverted. 



P. 5-8 cm., brick colour, or liver-rufescent, fleshy, somewhat fragile, 

 convexo-plane, obtuse, then infundibuliform and undulated, very 

 smooth, moist when fresh, sloping towards the margin, sometimes 

 excentric. St. 4-6 x 1-1-5 cm., whitish, compressed, cuticle rigid, 

 somewhat rooted and white villous at base. Gills whitish, becoming 

 reddish at the edge, decurrent, 3-4 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh of the 

 same colour as the p. but paler, thin, rigid, fragile. Spores white, globose, 

 4jii, minutely echinulate, 1-guttulate. Smell and taste acid. Coniferous 

 woods. Aug. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



862. C. flaccida (Sow.) Fr. Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 185. 



Flaccida, flabby. 



P. 5-8 cm., tawny ferruginous, shining, not becoming pale, slightly 

 fleshy, tough, orbicular, flaccid especially when dry, umbilicate, then 

 infundibuliform, smooth, rarelv rimuloso-squamulose ; margin spread- 

 ing, slightly convex. St. 2-5-5 x -5-1 cm., rubiginous ferruginous, 



