LEUCOSPORI. 7 1 



In woods, chiefly spruce fir. Common. Aug.-Nov. Clitocybe. 



Spores subellipsoid, uniguttate, 5-7x3-4 mk. K. ; 6x8 mk. W.G.S. 

 Name clava, a club ; pes, a foot. Stem club-shaped. Pers. Syn. p. 353. 

 Fr. Monogr. i. p. 100. Hym. Eur. p. 79. Icon. t. ^J.f~ I. S. Mycol. Scot, 

 n. 84. C. Illust. PI. 80. Saund. &> Sm. t. 31. A. mollis Bolt. t. 40 

 (badly coloured). B. with yellow gills. 



134. A. gangraenosus Fr. Pileus whitish, occasionally green, 

 becoming livid, &c., fleshy, convexo-plane, obtuse, at the first white- 

 pulverulent, then naked, variegated or streaked. Stem solid, 

 spongy, somewhat bulbous, soft, striate, curved, sometimes ex- 

 centric. Gills somewhat decurrent, arcuate, crowded, dingy- 

 white. 



Large ; stinking ; flesh becoming black or variegated with black. 

 In woods. Rare. 



Name -gangr&na, ulcer, gangrene. From its appearance. Fr. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 80. Smith. Jour. Bot. (1873), 355- Batt. t. 20. /. M. 



135. A. inornatus Sow. Pileus 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, some- 

 what livid, fleshy, plane or depressed, obtuse, even, smooth, with 

 a separable pellicle. Stem 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 12 mm. (}4 in.) 

 and more thick, solid, somewhat equal, smooth, firm, grey. Gills 

 adnate, plane, at length decurrent, crowded, grey. 



Flesh grey or variegated grey. Odour almost that of A. campestris. 

 Among grass in woods. Rare. 



The separable cuticle indicates A. grammopodius , but the gills are not in 

 the least arcuato-adnate. M.J.B. Spores pruniform 10 mk. Q. Name 

 inortiatus, unadorned. Sow. t. 342. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 80. Illust. PI. 

 246. a. Berk. Out. p. 108. C. Hbk. n. 82. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 85. 



136. A. hirneolus Fr. Pileus scarcely 12 mm. (% in.) broad, 

 hoary, slightly fleshy, plano-convex, at length depressed in the 

 centre and umbilicate, very even, slightly shining, when fresh as 

 if slightly viscid, the cuticle as if with a glued silkiness, the invol- 

 ute margin very thin ; flesh white. Stem as much as 5 cent. 

 (2 in.) long, scarcely 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, slender, not cartilaginous 

 however, but elastic, internally flocculose-stuffed, equal, flexuous, 

 grey, smooth, white-pruinose at the apex. Gills somewhat decur- 

 rent, crowded, thin, rather broad, whitish-grey. 



Gregarious, arid, tough, forming with A. (Trick.) calatus and A. (Clit.) 

 parilis a peculiar group, distinct in having the spores cinereous-whitish. Over- 

 looked or referred to Omphalia on account of its minuteness. 



