CLITOCYBE 285 



866. C. tuba Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 164, t. 112. Tuba, a trumpet. 

 Entirely white. P. 5-8 cm., fleshy, thin, convexo-plane, umbilicate, 



dead white when moist, shining whitish when dry, smooth, slightly silky 

 when young. St. 2-55 cm. x 5-6 mm., very tough, equal, at length 

 compressed, smooth. Gills becoming pale, deeply decurrent, horizontal, 

 very crowded, 6 mm. broad. Spores white, elliptical, 45 x 2-3 fj,, 

 "punctate" Quel. Smell none, or of new meal. Coniferous woods. 

 Oct. Nov. Uncommon. 



867. C. ericetorum (BuU.) Fr. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 113. 



Ericetorum, of heaths. 



P. 25 cm., shining white, becoming slightly yellowish with age, some- 

 what fleshy, convex, then umbilicate and cup-shaped, smooth, at 

 length striate; margin undulate, or lobed. St. 2 3 cm. x 4 5 mm., 

 white, attenuated downwards, sometimes compressed, pubescent. 

 Gills white, more or less decurrent, subdistant, often connected by veins. 

 Flesh white, thin, firm. Spores white, oval, 4-5 x 2-5-3/A, sparsely 

 and minutely rough. Smell pleasant, like Anthoxanthum odoratum. 

 Taste somewhat acrid. Edible. Heaths, and lawns. Sept. Nov. 

 Eather uncommon, (v.v.) 



B. P. fleshy-membranaceous, truly hygrophanous. 

 B. P. thin, depressed, then cup-shaped. Colour dingy when moist. 



868. C. cyathiformis (Bull.) Fr. KvaOo*;, a cup; forma, shape. 

 P. 2-7 cm., fuscous cinereous, or dark bistre, becoming paler when 



dry, slightly fleshy, piano-depressed, then cup-shaped, often undu- 

 lated, somewhat shining when moist, opaque when dry, very hygro- 

 phanous; margin persistently incurved. St. 5-10 cm. x 6-9 mm., con- 

 colorous, or paler, elastic, attenuated upwards, fibrillosely-reticulated, 

 base white villous. Gills cinereous fuscous, adnate, or decurrent, 

 connate at the base, distant, sometimes branched. Flesh concolorous, 

 watery, thin. Spores white, elliptical, 10-11 x 5-6 /*, punctate. 

 Smell pleasant, or none. Edible. Woods, pastures, rarely on rotten 

 wood. Aug. Feb. Common, (v.v.) 



var. cinerascens (Batsch) Fr. (= Clitocybe cinerascens (Batsch) 

 W. G. Sm.) Cinerascens, becoming ash-coloured. 



Differs from the type in its smaller size, in the plane then depressed 

 p., and yellowish gills. Autumn. Uncommon. 



869. C. expallens (Pers.) Fr. (= Clitocybe vibecina Fr. sec. Quel.) 



Expallens, becoming pale. 



P. 2-5 cm., cinereous fuscous, becoming whitish, at first sprinkled 

 with white-silky dew, slightly fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, then 

 plano-infundibuliform, somewhat zoned when dry; margin mem- 



