80 Clitocybe. 



CLITOCYBE, Fr. 



A. P. fleshy, not hygr. pale and silky when dry. 



* DISCIFORMES. P. fleshy, convex then plane or 

 subdepressed. 



j- P. greyish or brownish. 



nebularis, Batsch. P. 6 12 cm. convex then subgibbous, grey, 

 at first with grey meal ; g. narrow, subdecur. crowded, pallid ; s. 

 5 8 cm. narrowed upwards, fibrillose, pale ; sp. 6 x 3 '5. Edible. 



clavipes, Pers. P. 3 6 cm. convex then plane, naked, grey or 

 brownish ; g. decur. down stem, rather distant ; s. obconic, fibrillose, 

 4 5 cm. livid sooty ; sp. 6 7 x 4. 



comitalis, Fr. P. 2 3 cm. soon plane, obtuse, sooty umber ; s. 

 4 7 cm. obconic, sooty ; g. plane, crowded ; sp. 7 8 x 4. 



gangraenosa, Fr. Foetid. P. 5 8 cm. soon plane, obtuse, 

 whitish, variegated black, greenish, livid &c. ; g. dingy white ; s. 

 34 cm. striate, somewhat bulbous ; sp. . 



polius, Fr. P. 24 cm. convexo-plane, regular, grey ; g. decur. 

 closely crowded, white; s. 4 7 cm. equal, glabrous, whitish; 

 sp. - . 



C.fumosa differs in cartilaginous substance, mealy apex of stem, 

 hygr. &c.' 



inornata. Sow. P. 7 10 cm. plane or depr. pale greyish tan 

 often with olive tinge, cuticle separable ; g. adnate then decur. grey ; 

 s. 3 4 cm. glabrous, greyish ; sp. - . 



[Cardarella, Fr. Convex then plano-depr. glabrous, shining, 

 covered with a thick separable pellicle, blackish red, very viscid ; g. 

 decur. broad, shining white ; s. solid, stout, white. Edible. 



[auricula, D. C. P. hemispher. even, glabrous, edge incurved, 

 naked, greyish brown ; g. white ; s. solid, glabrous, white. 



[nimbata, Batsch. P. camp.-convex, even, thin margin incurved, 

 white mealy ; g. crowded, arcuate, white ; s. solid, innately squamu- 

 lose, squarnules becoming blackish. 



[luscina, Fr. P. exp. even, glabrous, edge spreading, naked, 

 fuscous then livid ; g. subdecur. crowded ; s. solid, short, narrowed 

 downwards, powdered with white meal. 



[curtipes, Fr. P. exp. oblique, obtuse, brown then pale, flesh 

 brown ; g. closely crowded, white ; s. short, rigid, fuscous, thickened 

 upwards, pale and subpruinose. 



hirneola, Fr. P. 1 ]-5 cm. convex then plane, silky shining, 

 grey then pale : g. crowded, hoary ; s. 4 5 cm. slender, subflexuous, 

 grey, apex with white meal ; sp. 5 x 3. 



var. major, Fr. P. wavy, slightly zoned, whitish. 



var. undulata, P. exp. slightly wavy and zoned, whitish; s. 

 thickened downwards. 



