CLITOCYBE 287 



874. C. suaveolens (Schum.) Fr. (= Clitocybefragrans Sow. sec. Quel.) 



Suaveolens, sweet smelling. 



P. 2-3 cm., white when moist with the disc darker, becoming pure 

 white when dry, fleshy, thin, convexo-plane, then depressed, often 

 umbilicate and somewhat infundibuliform, discoid, smooth; margin 

 pellucidly striate, at length reflexed. St. 4-5 cm. x 2-4 mm., white, 

 becoming pinkish, elastic, base swollen and villous. Gills whitish, then 

 discoloured, adnato-decurrent, crowded, thin. Flesh white, thin. Spores 

 white, "elliptical, 6-7 x 3-4 /z" Kick. Smell very pleasant, of aniseed. 

 Taste pleasant. Edible. Woods, especially coniferous. Sept. Dec. 

 Uncommon. 



875. C. brumalis Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 170, t. 114. 



Brumalis, pertaining to winter. 



P. 35 cm., livid when moist, becoming whitish, and at length yellowish 

 when dry, disc generally darker, fleshy-membranaceous, convex, um- 

 bilicate, reflexed at the circumference, then infundibuliform, often 

 irregular and undulated, smooth. St. 3-6 cm. x 3-8 mm., greyish, 

 then whitish, equal, or slightly thickened at the apex, at length com- 

 pressed, somewhat incurved, smooth, elastic, base white- villous. 

 Gills livid, becoming yellowish, or whitish, decurrent, arcuate, then 

 descending, 2 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh whitish, thin. Spores 

 white, elliptical, 5-6 x 3/i, 1-guttulate. Smell faint, pleasant. Taste 

 pleasant. Edible. Woods, and pastures. Aug. Jan. Common, (v.v.) 



e. P. rather fleshy, convex then flattened, or depressed, polished. 

 Colour dingy, or becoming pale. 



*Gills becoming cinereous. 



876. C. orbiformis Fr. Orbiformis, round-shaped. 

 P. 4-5 cm., greyish fuliginous, slightly fleshy, convexo-plane, very 



obtuse, orbicular, scarcely depressed, smooth, hygrophanous ; margin 

 spreading, finally striate. St. 6-8 cm. x 8-10 mm., grey, attenuated 

 upwards from the villous, thickened base, elastic, fibrillosely striate. 

 Gills whitish, then greyish, adnate, subdecurrent, plane, horizontal, 

 little crowded. Flesh thin. Spores white, ovoid, "6-7 x 3-4ju," Sacc. 

 Pine woods. Sept. Nov. Kare. 



877. C. metachroa (Fr.) Berk. 



/*era, change; %pa>9, colour of the skin. 



P. 2-8 cm., fuscous cinereous, then livid, whitish when dry, slightly 

 fleshy, convex, and subumbonate, soon plane, or depressed; margin 

 finally slightly striate. St. 3-4 cm. x 4-6 mm., grey, equal, often com- 

 pressed, tough, cuticle horny, fibrous, apex white-mealy. Gills whitish 

 cinereous, adnate, scarcely decurrent, crowded, linear, plane, thin. 



