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utnbilicate, 1 in. across, glabrous, striate to the middle, 

 blackish-brown, pale-grey when dry. Gills slightly decur- 

 rent, distant, broad, dark-grey with white meal. (B.) Stem 

 spongy and soft, at first stuffed with downy fibrils, then 

 hollow, entirely glabrous, even, and naked. Pileus infun- 

 dibuliform. Gills grey, and every where very watery, tough, 

 flexible, inodorous. (Fries.) 



Clitocybe pruinosa. Lasch. 



Pileus about 2 in. across, flesh thin, greyish; umbilicate 

 then infundibuliform, almost even, brown, pruinose at first, 

 then glabrous; gills slightly decurrent, crowded, narrow, 

 whitish then dingy ; stem about 1| in. long, l|-2 lines 

 thick, equal, fibrillose, coloured like the pileus, somewhat 

 stuffed. 



Agaricvx pruinosm, Lasch, in Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 101 ; 

 Oke., Illustr., pi. 231 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 58. 



Pine woods among moss, and on trunks. 



Slenden, rigid, inodorous, stem stuffed or imperfectly 

 hollow, H in. long, l line thick, equal, often ascending or 

 curved, fibrillose when young, colour of the pileus, but often 

 paler. Flesh of pileus almost membranaceous, umbilicate 

 and pruinose when young, broadly infundibuliform and 

 glabrous when adult, brown, grey and squamulose when dry. 

 Flesh thin, becoming greyish. Gills decurrent, crowded, 

 narrow, slightly arcuate when young, falcate when adult; 

 white, then sordid. Eeadily distinguished from neighbour- 

 ing species by colour and habit. (Fries.) 



Clitocybe concava. Scop. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh very thin ; broadly and deeply 

 ximbilicate, somewhat pierced at the base, limb convexo- 

 plane, wavy, hygrophanous, dark grey; gills decurrent, 

 crowded, narrow, smoky -grey ; stem 1-1 1 in. long, 1-2 lines 

 thick, equal, glabrous, grey, stuffed. 



Agaricus concavus, Scopoli, Fl. Cam., p. 449 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 58. 



In pastures, &c. 



A very distinct species, gregarious, inodorous, entirely 

 smoky-grey. Stem stuffed, tough, composed entirely of 

 soft fibres, usually short, 1 in. or a little more, 1-2 lines 

 thick, equal, naked, glabrous, grey. Pileus very thin, 



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