CLITOCYBE. 423 



about 1| line broad; stem l-2 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, 

 equal or slightly expanded into the pileus, white, fibrilloeely 

 striate, often curved, solid. 



Agaricm (Clitocybe') occultus, Cke., Grev., xix. p. 40; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 382; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1184. 



Gregarious on charred ground. 



Substance white, tough, cartilaginous. Known by the 

 viscid pileus and scarcely or not at all decurrent gills. 



Clitocybe monstrosa. Sow. 



Pileus 1 |-2A in across, flesh rather thick, at first convex 

 and umbonate, at length waved and lobed, white, opaque as 

 if whitewashed ; margin incurved ; gills scarcely rounded 

 behind, but not truly decurrent, rather distant, white or 

 cream-colour; stem up to 1 in. long, ^1 in. thick, com- 

 pressed, solid, streaked, opaque white, slightly rooting, 

 downy-squamulose above. 



Agaricm monstrosus, Sowerby, t. 283 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 53 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 648. 



On the ground. 



Often densely caespitose, and then not compressed. (Cooke.) 



III. INFUNDIBULIFORMES. 



* Pileus coloured, or becoming pallid, silky. 



Clitocybe gigantea. Sow. 



Pileus 6-10 in. across, flesh rather thin in proportion to 

 the size of the fungus, white, or tinged with tan, glabrous, 

 when moist, slightly flocculose when dry ; margin involute 

 then spreading, glabrous, rather coarsely grooved; gills 

 slightly decurrent, broad, very much crowded, branched and 

 connected by veins, whitish then pale tan-colour, not sepa- 

 rating spontaneously from the hymenophore ; stem 1-2 in. 

 long and nearly the same in thickness, equal, pallid, solid; 

 spores white, 5 x 3 y*. 



Agaricus giganteus, Sow., t. 224. 



Agaricm (Clitocybe) giganteus, Fries, Monogr., i ., p. 118 ; 

 Cko., Hdbk., p. 53 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 106. 



Paxillus giganteus, Fries, Hyra. Eur., p. 401. 



In woods, &c. 



