312 CLITOPILUS 



1-5 cm., white, curved, strigosely rooting at the hairy base. Gills some- 

 what flesh colour, adnato-decurrent, crowded, narrow. Flesh brownish. 

 Spores pink, 7-8 x 5/z. Woods. Sept. Rare. 



969. C. Sarnicus Massee. Sarnicus, belonging to Guernsey. 



P. 23 cm., mouse colour, paler with a ruddy tinge when dry, cam- 

 panulate, then quite plane, subumbonate, often more or less depressed 

 round the umbo, slightly striate when moist, minutely silky flocculose. 

 St. 2-3 cm. x 2 mm., white, equal, slightly flexuose. Gills pinkish 

 salmon colour, plane nearly up to the stem then suddenly decurrent, 

 3-4 mm. broad, rather crowded. Flesh very thin. Spores pink, 

 nodulose, with an apiculus, 7-8 x 6/u. Amongst grass. Rare. 



970. C. vilis Fr. (= Eccilia undata (Fr.) Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 351, 

 t. 487. Vilis, of small value. 



P. 2-3 cm., grey, submembranaceous, convex, umbilicate, silky - 

 fibrillose when dry. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 2-4 mm., concolorous, equal, 

 tough, but fibroso-fissile, fibrilloso-striate, base white-villose. Gills 

 whitish, plano-decurrent, or adnate with a decurrent tooth, nearly 

 triangular, crowded, almost extending beyond the margin of the p. Flesh 

 white. Spores pink, "quadrangular, almost quadrilateral, 8-9 /x ' 

 Rick. Downs, and open spaces. July Sept. Not uncommon. 

 (9.9.) 



971. C. stilbocephalus B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 349, t. 324, lower 



figs. <7TiX/3&>, I shine; ^)aX^, the head. 



P. 2-6 cm., yellowish white, or greyish, sparkling with atoms, whitish 

 and rather silky when dry, campanulate, obtuse, sometimes umbonate, 

 hygrophanous ; margin straight. St. 5-8 cm. x 3-8 mm., white, or 

 greyish, somewhat equal, undulato-fibrous. Gills salmon colour, 

 adnate, sometimes emarginate behind, 3-5 mm. broad, veined. Flesh 

 whitish. Spores pink, angular, oblong, 9-12 x 6-9 /u,, 1-guttulate. 

 Smell pleasant of new meal. Pastures. Aug. Sept. Uncommon. 

 (9.9.) 



972. C. Smithii Massee. Cke. Illus. no. 350, t. 599, as Clitopilus stilbo- 

 cephalus Berk. var. 



Worthington G. Smith, the eminent mycologist. 

 P. 2-4 cm., whitish, or with a dingy yellow tinge, soon becoming plane 

 and orbicular, sometimes undulated, atomate. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 3 

 4 mm., pallid, with a reddish tinge below, tapering very slightly up- 

 wards, undulated, base white, downy. Gills salmon colour, broadly 

 adnate with a slight decurrent tooth, 4 mm. broad. Flesh white, 

 rather thick except at the margin. Spores pink, globose, 4/A. Oct. 

 Rare. 



