428 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



then plane or depressed, gibbous or umbonate, leathery, 

 smooth, edge even and incurved, flesh white ; gills deeply 

 decurrent, single, rather crowded, white, then light yellow ; 

 stem 2-3 in. long, solid or stuffed, attenuated from the thick- 

 ened base, fibrillose, whitish, zoned with crowded spots of 

 the same colour as the pileus ; spores spinulose, 9 /A diameter. 



Agaricus (^Clitocybe] spinulosus (Stev. & Smith), Stev., 

 Brit. Fung., v. i. p. 84. 



A. subinvolutus, Saund. & Sm., t. 3(3. 



Among grass by wayside. 



Odour sweet and pleasant. Growing in large patches, 

 singly or two or three together. 



The spinulose spores mark this as a distinct species. It 

 differs in habit from A. geotropus, which has smooth spores. 

 (Stev.) 



Clitocybe subinvoluta. Batsch. 



Pileus 23 in. across, flesh at the disc, margin thin ; pileus 

 convex then depressed, obtuse, smooth, even, pale tan-colour 

 or with a brick-red tinge ; margin involute ; gills 1 J-2 lines 

 broad, decurrent, pale tan; stem about 2 in. long," |-1 in. 

 thick, nearly equal, longitudinally grooved, slightly "downy 

 at the apex, tinged reddish, solid; flesh like that of the 

 pileus, white. 



Agaricus subinvolutus, Batsch, Conspt., t. 204; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 55 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 108 (not of W. G. Smith, nor of 

 Fries). 



In fir woods, &c. 



The above description belongs to the species of Batsch, not 

 of W. G. Smith, in Saunders and Smith, pi. 36. The last- 

 named differs from Batsch's fungus in the spinulose spores 

 and concentric, coloured zones on the stem. C. gilva differs 

 in the ochraceous flesh and closely crowded gills. G. geotropa 

 is distinguished by the umbonate pileus. 



Clitocybe gilva. Pers. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh rather thin, pale ochraceous, 

 as is also that of the stem ; convex, soon depressed and 

 often wavy, but not truly infundibuliform, obtuse, smooth, 

 moist, pale dingy ochraceous ; gills decurrent, up to 2 lines 

 broad, closely crowded, thin, often branched, pallid then 

 ochraceous; stem up to 1 in. long, J in. thick, glabrous, 



