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the cap a clearer white. The same cliaracters and the densely 

 crowded gills separate it from C. obsolete!. 



In woods, roadsides, etc. 



C. obsoleta. — Cap rather flesliy, convex, then plane or slightly 

 depressed, sometimes papillate, even, smooth, hygrophanous, pallid 

 or pale pinky tan, whitish when dry, about i in. across ; gills obtuse 

 behind, adnately decurrent, sometimes almost rounded behind, 

 broad, crowded, whitish; stem whitish, elastic, hollow, about i in. 

 long. 



Intermediate between C. fiuii^rciiis and C. mctachroa. Smell 

 pleasant, like aniseed, but not strong. Differing from C. fragrans 

 in the subadnate gills and mealy apex of the stem. 



Among grass or leaves. 



F. — VeRSI FORMES 



* Cap dingy or broivnish. 



C. ectypa. — Cap rather thin, tlien almost plane, centre often 

 slightly depressed, edge sometimes arched, striate, dingy or horny 

 yellow, becoming rufescent and squamulose or virgate with sooty 

 fibrils, 2-3 in. across ; gills adnate, with a decurrent tooth, distant, 

 connected by veins, white, soon pallid, then spotted with rufous, 

 mealy with the white spores ; stem somewhat bulbous or equal, 

 fibrillose, dingy yellowish, soon olive and the base becoming black- 

 ish, 2-4 in. long. 



Gregarious ; sometimes several stems are joined at the base, 

 resembling Armillaria mellea in colour and general appearance, 

 but without a trace of a ring. Smell pleasant, at first resembling 

 aniseed, at length foetid. Cap brown when decaying. 



In swampy places, etc. Rare. 



C. sadleri. — The fungus described as a Clitocybe under this name 

 proves to be only a sterile condition of a species of Hypholonia, in 

 which, owing to the arrest in the formation of spores, the gills 

 remain permanently white. 



Laccaria 



Cap regular, convex, then umbilicate or depressed, thin ; gills 

 broadly adnate, sometimes with a decurrent tooth, becoming 

 mealy with the globose, warted spores ; stem central, fibrous 

 outside. 



Recognized by the broadly adnate gills becoming densely pow- 

 dered \v\i\\ the white spores. The species included in the present 

 genus were at one time included in Clitocybe, from which they 

 are solely distinguished by the globose, warted spores, which 

 persist on the surface of the gills, and forming a distinct white 

 bloom. 



The species grow on the ground, are brightly coloured, and 

 mostly very common. 



