134 Leptonia Clitopilus. 



nefrens, Fr. P. 3 4 cm. exp. then infundib. hygr. rather wavy, 

 livid sooty, depression darkest, pale when dry; g. broad, edge 

 blackish, entire ; s. 2 3 cm. glabrous, livid fuscous ; sp. 4 5 x 3. 



Differs from L. serrulata in entire edge of g. and absence of black 

 points at apex of s. 



[sarcita, Fr. Fragile. P. exp. radiato-striate, uniform, hygr. 

 torn into fibrillose scales, smoky, hoary when dry ; g. linear, thick, 

 distant, glaucous; s. short, glabrous ; sp. 10 12 x 8. 



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Gills white. 



[Kervernii, Guern. P. fleshy-ochre or buff yellow, dotted with 

 flecks ; g. free, ventricose ; s. slightly squamulose, shining white, 

 often compr. base cottony. 



[Queletii, Boud. P. white with scattered rosy-amethyst flecks ; 

 g. white then rosy ; s. white then yellowish ; sp. rough, 14. 



[sericella, Bull. Shining white. P. silky; g. flesh-colour; s. 

 slender, fibrillose. 



[Grillotii, Q. Diaphanous, becoming hyaline white. P. striate, 

 umbil. tinged olive ; s. fistulose, silky, base white-downy ; sp. 

 rough, 9. 



[parasitica, Q. Pruinose, shining white. P. orbicular ; g. sinuate, 

 white then rosy ; s. arcuate, apex dilated. 



| aemulans, Karst. P. convex, umbil. innately squamulose, grey, 

 opaque ; g. adnate, broad, smoky ; s. glabrous, dusky livid, base 

 whitish. 



Resembles Clitopilns vilis. 



CLITOPILUS, Fr. 



I. ORCELLI. Gills deeply decur. Pileus irreg. sub- 

 excentric, wavy, scarcely hygr. edge at first flocculose. 



prunulus, Scop. Smell like new meal. P. 59 cm. compact, 

 convex and regular then wavy, dry, pruinose, greyish white ; g. rather 

 distant ; s. 23 cm. ventricose, naked, striate, white ; sp. 78 x 5. 

 Edible. 



orcella, Bull. Smell like new meal. P. 5 7 cm. soft, plano- 

 depr. irreg. from first, silky, rather viscid when moist, yellowish- 

 white ; g. crowded ; s. 2 cm. flocculose, thickened upwards ; sp. 

 7x4. 



mundulus, Lasch. P. 35 cm. plano-depr. unequal, dry, white ; 

 g. closely crowded, narrow ; s. 2 3 cm. floccosely villose, white, be- 

 coming blackish inside ; sp. 10 x 5. 



| pseudoorcella, Fr. P. exp. depr. even, somewhat fuscous, but 

 silkily hoary ; g. broad, distant, greyish white ; s. solid, short, outside 

 and inside greyish-brown. 



