284 CLITOCYBE 



elastic, tough, subequal, polished, base thickened and villous. Gills 

 whitish, becoming yellow especially at the edge, deeply almost obconico- 

 decurrent, very arcuate, very crowded, narrow, 1-2 mm. broad. Flesh 

 pallid, thin, fragile when fresh, flaccid when dry. Spores white, 

 globose, 3-4/x, minutely warted, 1-guttulate. Woods, and heaths, 

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



var. lobata (Sow.) Cke. Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 186. Lobata, lobed. 



Differs from the type in its more caespitose habit, in the darker colour, 

 the lobed, or contorted margin of the p., and the st. thickened upwards. 

 Woods, and heaths. Sept. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



863. C. vermicularis Fr. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 49. 



Vermicular is, belonging to a little worm. 



P. 2-4 cm., deep flesh colour, then tan flesh colour, slightly fleshy, 

 umbilicato-convex, then expanded and infundibuliform, undulato- 

 lobed, smooth, moist, slightly hygrophanous ; margin involute, 

 pruinosely tomentose. St. 3-5 cm. x 3-6 mm., whitish, equal, often 

 compressed and curved, fibrillosely striate, apex mealy and often 

 surrounded by a floccose zone, base white tomentose and arising from 

 stout, palmately branched, strigose mycelia. Grills white, then cream 

 colour, edge ochraceous, slightly decurrent, attenuated, or obtuse at 

 the base, very crowded, easily separating from the hymenophore, 

 thin. Flesh concolorous, thin. Spores white, elliptical, 5 x Sp. Smell 

 slight, of new meal. Taste somewhat acid. Edible. Coniferous woods. 

 Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



864. C. senilis Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 56, fig. 1. Sentiis, aged. 

 P. 4-8 cm., dingy fuscous tan, or brown becoming paler, fleshy - 



membranaceous, flaccid, disc depressed, soon infundibuliform, smooth, 

 concentrically cracked; margin spreading. St. 4-5 x -5-1 cm., whitish, 

 equal, often ascending, smooth. Gills whitish, then concolorous with 

 the p., deeply decurrent, linear, narrow, very crowded. Flesh white, 

 thin, flaccid. Spores white, pip-shaped, 6 x 3-4/u,, 1-guttulate. Woods, 

 and lawns. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



***P. shining white. 



865. C. catinus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 51, fig. 4. Catinus, a bowl. 

 P. 5-8 cm., white, becoming discoloured with age, fleshy, plane, 



then infundibuliform, always obtuse, smooth. St. 5-8 x -5-1 cm., 

 white, elastic, tough; base thickened and tomentose. Gills white, de- 

 current, straight, descending, broad, not much crowded. Flesh white, 

 thin, flaccid. Spores white, pip-shaped, 45 x 3 /A, minutely punctate. 

 Smell and taste pleasant. Edible. Woods, and among dead leaves. 

 Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



