434 FUXGUS-FLORA. 



Var. cinerascens, Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 100 ; Cke. Hdbk., 

 p. 367 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1151s. 



Agaricus cinerascens, Batsch, f. 101. 



Pileus up to 1 in. across, thin, infundibuliform, pale smoky- 

 brown, gills decurrent, yellowish-white ; stem 1-2 in. long, 

 1|- line thick, greyish, reticulately fibrillose, hollow. 



Among moss. 



In Cooke's figures the gills are grey. 



Clitocybe expallens. Pers. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, rather fleshy when young, convex 

 then expanded, obtuse, even, greyish-brown, .at first hoary 

 with a superficial silkiness, then plane to infundibuliform, 

 livid, disc rather fleshy, the expanded, membranaceous 

 margin striate ; gills decurrent, narrow at both ends, thin, 

 crowded, soft, greyish-white ; stem about 2 in. long and 2 

 lines thick, equal, glabrous, apex silky, white, cottony inside, 

 soon hollow, tough. 



Agaricus (Clitocybe) expallens, Fries, Monogr., i. p. 32 ; Cke., 

 Illustr., pi. 220. 



Agaricus expallens, Pers., Sj'n., p. 61. 



In pastures, woods, &c. 



Smaller, earlier, and paler in colour than C. cyatMformis ; 

 small forms of the latter are, however, difficult to distinguish 

 from the present species. Everywhere watery, very hygro- 

 phanous ; pileus whitish or pale tan when dry. (Fries.) 



Clitocybe obbata. Fr. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, flesh thin; umbilicate then 

 infundibuliform, glabrous, hygrophanous, margin becoming 

 slightly sttiate, blackish or sooty-brown ; gills decurrent, 

 about 1 line broad, distant, at first dark grey then powdered 

 with white; s^ern about 2 in. long, 2 lines thick, equal, 

 tough, glabrous, often wavy, greyish-brown, hollow. 



Agaricus (Clitocybe) obbatus, Fries, Epicr., p. 74; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 58 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 230. 



In pine woods. 



Fries describes two forms : 



(A.) Stem hollow, 2 in. and more long, equal, 1-2 lines 

 thick, often ascending or flexuous, glabrous, naked, slightly 

 striate (striae white, interrupted), greyish-brown. Pileus 

 f;lmost membra naceous, convex then plane, disc broadly 



