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fleshy, sooa plane, almost obconical, smooth, dry ; flesh 

 las. white, thin towards margin ; stem conical, solid, inter- 

 nally spongy, somewhat fibrillose, fuliginous-livid ; gills 

 deeply decurrent, somewhat distant, flaccid, entire, broad, 

 white, but varying yellowish. 



In woods. Common. Epping Forest. 



149. A. (Clitocybe) gangrsenosus, Fr. ; pileus at first 

 whitish, pulverulent, occasionally greenish, becoming livid, 

 fleshy, variegated or streaked, at length jet black ; flesh 

 becoming black or variegated with black ; stem solid, spongy, 

 somewhat bulbous, soft, striate, curved, sometimes excentric ; 

 gills somewhat decurrent, arcuate, crowded, dingy white. 



In woods. Rare. Odour foetid. 



Var. nigrescens, Lasch ; pileus thin, subumbonate, 

 sometimes depressed : stem tomentose. 



In larch plantations. Odour rather sweet according to 

 Dr. Cooke ; taste unpleasant. 



150. A. (Clitocybe) inornatus, Sow. (p. 108) ; 3 in. 



151. A. (Clitocybe) hirneolus, Fr. ; gregarious ; pileus 

 ■| in., hoary, slightly fleshy, at leugth depressed in the 

 centre and umbilicate, even, slightly shining, moist, involute 

 margin very thin ; flesh white ; stem slender, not cartilagi- 

 nous, elastic, equal, flexuous, grey, smooth, white pruinose 

 at apex, internally flocculose, stufl'ed ; gills somewhat 

 decurrent, crowded, thin, rather broad, whitish grey. 



AmoQgst moss. Coed Coch. 



152. A. (Clitocybe) xygophyllus, Cke. and Mass. ; pileus 

 2-4 in., rather fleshy, convex, then expanded, disc depressed, 

 hygrophanous, tough, flaccid, pallid, with a greyish tint 

 when moist, ochraceous white when dry ; margin thin, at 

 first involute, rugose, or plicate, as if pinched up at regular 

 intervals ; stem equal stuffed, spongy, white expanding 



