110 OUTLINES 0¥ BUITISII FUNGOLOGY. 



Ill woods. Pilcus 3 inches across, very bibulous; flesh 

 dirty-white, soft. Formerly referred by Fries to Hyyrophorus 

 caprimts, 



83. A. (Clitocybe) opacus, JViih. ; white ; pileus fleshy, 

 convex, expanded or depressed, umbonatc, even, covered with 

 a floccose shining film; stem stuffed, subfibrillose, unequal, 

 flexuous; gills adnate, decurrent, very eroM'ded, white. — Soiv. 

 t. 142. 



In Avoods. Too nearly related to A. cerussatus. Remark- 

 able for the silvery glaire with which it is clothed, which 

 sometimes admits of being rubbed off". 



84. A. (Clitocybe) giganteus, Soiv. ; pileus thin, ffeshy, 

 splitting, clothed with minute matted down, at length squa- 

 mulose, funnel-shaped; disc always depressed; stem solid, 

 hard, blunt, equal, even ; gills very crowded, slightly decur- 

 rent, changing from white to yellowish. — Sow. t. 244 ; Huss. 

 i. /. 79. 



lu woods. Forming large rings. Not very common. Nearly 

 a foot across. 



85. A. (Clitocybe) infundibuliformis, ;Sc/<«//\ ; pileus thin, 

 fleshy, at first convex, umbonatc, clothed with minute innate 

 down, at length funnel-shaped, flaccid ; stem stuffed, soft, 

 elastic; gills decurrent, moderately distant, white. (Plate 5, 

 fig. 2.) 



On the sides of woods, amongst moss, etc. Extremely 

 common. Pileus mostly of a pale reddish-tan, 2-3 inches 

 across, often retaining traces of the umbo ; its edges occasion- 

 ally plicate, at length soft. 



86. A. (Clitocybe) geotrupus, Bull. ; pileus fleshy, convex, 

 then broadly funnel-shaped, strongly rimbonate, compact, 

 even, smooth ; stem solid, compact, fibrillose, attenuated up- 

 wards; flesh white; gills crowded, deeurreut, unbranched, 



