310 CUTOPILUS 



I. P. irregular; margin at first flocculose. Gills deeply decurrent. 



961. C. prunulus (Scop.) Fr. (= Clitopilus orcella (Bull.) Fr.) Cke. 

 lUus. no. 343, t. 322. Prunulus, a little plum. 



P. 3-11 cm., while, or yellowish, or more rarely becoming cinereous, 

 fleshy, compact, convex, then flattened, at length depressed and 

 repand or unequal, viscid when moist, delicately pruinose, often 

 spotted, or zoned; margin involute, thin, mealy. St. 2-6 x 1-1-5 cm., 

 white, ventricose, or thickened upwards, pruinose, or villose, often 

 striate, cottony at the base. Gills white, then flesh colour, deeply 

 decurrent, attenuated at both ends. Flesh white. Spores pink, fusi- 

 form, 11-13 x 5/A, 1-2-guttulate. Cystidia none. Smell and taste 

 of new meal. Edible. Woods, and pastures. June Nov. Common. 



962. C. mundulus (Lasch) Fr. (= Clitopilus pseudo-orcella Fr. sec. 

 Quel.) Cke. Ulus. no. 345, t. 375, fig. A. Mundus, neat. 



P. 3-5 cm., becoming pale white, then spotted cinereous, at length 

 becoming black, fleshy, thin, convex, gibbous, soon flattened and de- 

 pressed, unequal repand, often excentric, rivulose, or even, fioccoso- 

 soft; margin involute. St. 2-3 cm. x 4 mm., white, subequal, floccoso- 

 villose, base white- villose. Gills pallid, deeply decurrent, very crowded, 

 narrow, thin, with many shorter ones intermixed. Flesh white, 

 soft, becoming black in the stem. Spores elliptical, 8-11 x 4-5 p. Taste 

 bitter. Woods, amongst leaves. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. nigrescens (Lasch) Fr. Nigrescens, becoming black. 



Differs from the type in the whole of the flesh becoming black. 



963. C. popinalis Fr. (= Paxillus amarellus (Pers.) Quel.) Fr. Icon. 

 t. 96, fig. 1. Popinalis, belonging to a cook-shop. 



P. 2-5 cm., cinereous, here and there mottled with guttate spots, 

 slightly fleshy, flaccid, convex, then depressed, somewhat repand; 

 margin thin, inrolled, pruinose, grey. St. 2-5 cm. x 5-12 mm., paler 

 than the p., subequal, often flexuose, attenuated, or somewhat bulbous 

 at the white, cottony base. Gills ochraceous, then grey, deeply decur- 

 rent, thin, narrow. Flesh grey, becoming white. Spores pink, globose, 

 4-6/z, warted. Cystidia none. Smell of new meal, or rancid. Downs, 

 fields, and sandy sea-shores. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



964. C. undatus Fr. (= Eccilia undata (Fr.) Quel.; Clitopilus vilis Fr. 



sec. Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 96, fig. 4. Undatus, waved. 



P. 2-4 cm., fuliginous cinereous, becoming pale, membranaceous, 



convex, then depressed, umbilicate, sometimes infundibuliform, un- 



equal, undulated, often somewhat zoned, pruinose, silky. St. 2- 



3 cm. x 2-4 mm., concolorous, entirely fibrous, unequal, compressed, 



