PAXILLUS 549 



I. P. entire, central. Spores dirty white, only in P. panaeolus 

 with a tendency to ferruginous. 



1813. P. giganteus (Sow.) Fr. (= Clitocybe gigantea (Sow.) Quel.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 150, t. 106, as Clitocybe gigantea Sow. 



7/<ya<, a giant. 



Entirely tan white. P. 3-30 cm., fleshy, convex, then plane, or de- 

 pressed, then plano-infundibuliform, soft, minutely adpresso-squamu- 

 lose, often guttate, the whole surface under a lens clothed with a fine 

 matted silkiness ; margin strongly involute and pubescent at first, then 

 spreading, and becoming smooth, at length revolute and sulcate with 

 small shallow channels, often splitting. St. 3-7-5 x 2-5 cm., equal, or 

 attenuated upwards, base subbulbous, smooth, or minutely pubescent. 

 Gills whitish, then tan colour, subdecurrent, often branched and anasto- 

 mosing, narrow, or broad, very crowded. Flesh white, very firm, thin 

 at the margin. Spores whitish, broadly elliptical, 7-8 x 5-6/x, 1-3- 

 guttulate. Smell pleasant, taste mild. Edible. Often forming large 

 rings. Pastures, heaths, rarely in woods. Aug. Nov. Not uncom- 

 mon, (v.v.) 



1814. P. Alexandri Fr. (= Clitocybe gilva Fr. sec. Quel.) 



P. Alexandra. 



P. 5-7-5 cm., fawn colour, fleshy, compact, plane, then depressed, 

 dry, unpolished; margin closely involute, somewhat striate when 

 expanded. St. 12 mm. x 2-5-3 cm., ventricose. Gills boxwood colour, 

 subdecurrent, crowded. Flesh white, becoming yellow. Spores whitish. 

 Amongst moss in woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



1815. P. lepista Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 164, fig. 1. 



\67raa-Tr), a drinking vessel. 



P. 410 cm., dingy whitish, fleshy, convex, then plane and depressed, 

 obtuse, rimuloso-squamulose towards the circumference, dry; margin 

 involute, often undulato-flexuose, smooth. St. 2-5-10 cm. x 12- 

 15 mm., whitish, sometimes rufescent, or inclining to fuscous, equal, or 

 attenuated downwards, always blunt at the white villose base, cuticle 

 somewhat horny and continuous with the hymenophore. Gills dingy white, 

 at length darker, deeply decurrent, somewhat branched, simple at the 

 base, 3-6 mm. broad, very crowded. Flesh whitish, compact, or thin, 

 spongy-elastic in the st. Spores reddish, becoming fuscous pallid, 

 elliptical, 7-8 x 5jn. Cystidia none. Smell mealy, often rather rancid. 

 Woods, and pastures. Oct. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1816. P. extenuatus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 164, fig. 2. Extenuatus, thinned. 

 P. 3-7-5 cm., clay, or becoming fuscous tan, fleshy, convex, gibbous, 



then expanded, obtuse, tough, smooth, moist; margin involute, 

 pubescent, at length expanded, rigid-fragile. St. 3-5 cm. x 6-12 mm., 



