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pinkish-grey, at length with a light brown tint ; spores pale 

 brown, *00035 x '00018 in., odour pleasant; smaller than 

 Clitopilut prunulus, less fleshy, and grows in more open glades. 

 (H. G. Bull.) 



Clitopilus mundulus. Lasoh. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thin, somewhat gibbous and 

 convex when young, margin involute, minutely floccose, 

 soon expanded and depressed, unequal, wavy and often ex- 

 centric, even or rivulose ; flesh soft, white, becoming blackish ; 

 gills very decurrent, very much crowded, narrow, thin, mixed 

 with numerous shorter ones, pallid ; stem stuffed, about 1 in. 

 long, 2 lines thick, almost equal, floccosely villose, then 

 becoming almost glabrous, base truly villose, white ; spores 

 elliptical, smooth, 10 X 5 /*. 



Agaricus mundulus, Lasch, No. 518; Cke., Hdbk., p. 127; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 375A. 



In woods, among fallen leaves, &c. 



Allied to C. orcella, but evidently distinct. Tough when 

 young, pallid white, then greyish-spotted, at length blackish. 

 (Fries.) 



Clitopilus cretatus. B. & Br. 



Pileus ^-f in. across, at first convex, then umbilicate, of a 

 dead-white, but shining, membranaceous, margin involute, 

 not striate ; stem a few lines high, 1 line thick, often curved 

 at the base and sometimes thickened, tomentose, especially 

 below, white : gills pale pink, not broad, very decurrent ; 

 spores subglobose, smooth, 4-5 p. diameter. 



Agaricus (Clitopilus) cretatus, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., 

 11. 903 (1861) ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 127 ; Cke., Illustr., t. 375u. 



On naked soil in woods and pastures. 



Solitary or gregarious; mycelium white, floccose; allied 

 to Clitopilus prunulw, but much smaller and more delicate. 



Clitopilus popinalis. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thin, flaccid, convex then de- 

 pressed, somewhat wavy, glabrous, opaque, grey, spotted and 

 ru.irbled ; flesh greyish-white, unchangeable ; gills very de- 

 current, broader than the thickness of the flesh of the pileus, 

 lanceolate, crowded, dark grey, at length reddish from the 

 spores ; stem stuifed, 1-2 in. long, 2 lines thick, equal, often 



