88 OUTLINES OF HKITISPI FUNGOLOGY. 



Subgenus 17. Clitopilus (p. 145). — Clitopilus corresponds 

 with Clitocybe, spores rosy, not white. 



I. Orcelli. — Gills deeply decurrent, jnleus irregular, somewhat 

 eccentric, Jlexuose, scarcely hygrophanous, margin at first 



fioccidose. 



483. A. (Clitopilus) prunulus, Scop. (p. 145) ; 2-4 in. 

 Epping Forest. 



484. A. (Clitopilus) Orcella, Jia//. ; growing iu troops ; 

 pileus becoming yellow-white, fleshy, solt, piano-depressed, 

 at first irregular, slightly silky, somewhat viscid when 

 moist; stem curt, solid, Hocculose, thickened upwards; gills 

 crowded, whitish flesh-colour. 



On open grassy ground. Frequent. Epping Forest. 

 Commonly smaller and thinner than A. j)rwiulus ; pileus 

 undulato-lobed, often spotted and zoned ; flesh softer and 

 unchangeable; gills more crowded. Edible. 



485. A. (Clitopilus) mundulus, Fr. ; pileus 2 in., be- 

 coming pale-white, thin, spotted, cinereous, at length black, 

 fleshy, thin, at first convex, gibbous, with an involute mar- 

 gin, floccoso-soft, soon flattened and depressed, unequal, 

 repand, often excentric, even or rivulose; flesh soft, but 

 tough, white ; stem stuft'ed, equal, floccoso-villous, then 

 smooth, white villous at base, at length black internally ; 

 gills crowded, narrow, thin, pallid. 



In woods, among leaves. Uncommon. 



486 A. (Clitopilus) popinalis, Fr. ; pileus 1-2 in., 

 cinereous, mottled with guttate spots, slightly fleshy, 

 flaccid, convex, then depressed, somewhat repand, smooth, 

 opaque ; flesh whitish-grey, unchangeable ; stem stuft'ed, 

 equal, flexuose, naked, paler than the pileus ; gills broader 

 than flesh of pileus, lanceolate, crowded, dark grey, at 

 length reddish. 



