244: FUNGUS-FLORA. 



In woods, &c. 



Smell pleasant, resembling new meal. Edible. 



Pileus 2-4 inches broad, convex more or less wavy, at 

 length plane, sub-depressed, very fleshy, white, shining or 

 opaque, with a slight tendency to cinereous, smooth, but 

 under a lens minutely though densely tomentose, so that the 

 impression of the finger is left upon it, margin involute. 

 Gills decurrent, narrow more or less forked, covered with 

 very minute conical papillae, ending in four spiculae. Sporules 

 rose-coloured, elliptic, often seated upon the spiculae. Stem, 

 in general, short, white, solid, thickest at the base, and downy. 

 Odour like that of fresh meal. (Berk.) 



Clitopilus orcella. Bull. 



Pileus up to 3 in. across, flesh thin, soft, plane then de- 

 pressed, irregularly waved and lobed from the first, slightly 

 silky, rather viscid when moist, white with a yellowish tinge, 

 extreme margin usually incurved ; gills deeply decurrent, 

 crowded, about 1^ line broad, whitish then salmon-colour; 

 stem under 1 in. long, in. and more thick, whitish, slightly 

 flocculose, usually rather thickened upwards, solid ; spores 

 elliptical, smooth, 7 X 4 p.. 



Agaricm orcella, Bulliard, t. 573, f. 1 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 323 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 126. 



In open places among grass, &c. 



Closely allied to C. prunulus, but distinguished by being 

 usually smaller, stem shorter, often excentric, attenuated 

 downwards, flocculose, pileus thinner, piano - depressed, 

 irregular from the first, silky, rather viscid when moist, 

 whitish-yellow, often spotted and zoned, margin at length 

 undulately lobed, flesh soft, unchangeable, gills much crowded. 

 Smell exactly like that of C. prunulus. (Fries.) 



Pileus thin, irregular, depressed in the centre, lobed, 

 undulated, 23 in. broad, clear white, sometimes tinted with 

 pale brown on its prominences, occasionally with a grey 

 centre, or slightly zoned with grey ; surface soft and smooth 

 to the touch, except in wet weather, when it becomes soft 

 and sticky; flesh soft, colourless, and unchangeable; stem 

 smooth, white, solid, short, decreasing in size, central when 

 young, becoming excentric from the pileus growing irregu- 

 larly ; gills crowded, decurrent, at first nearly white, then 



