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CLITOPILUS. Pries, (fig. 11, p. 236.) 



Pileus more or less excentric or regular, margin at first 

 involute ; gills more or less decurrent, never sinuate nor 

 seceding from the stem, salmon-colour ; stem fleshy or fibrous, 

 not polished and cartilaginous externally, central, expanded 

 upwards into the flesh of the pileus; spores smooth or 

 warted. 



Clitopilm, Fries, Epicr., p. 148 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 126. 



Closely resembling Eccilia, differing mostly in the stem 

 not being cartilaginous at the surface. Distinguished from 

 Entoloma by the gills not being sinuate. 



Agrees in structure with Glitocyhe in the Leucosporae. 



ANALYSIS OF TEE SPECIES. 



Oecelli. 



Gills deeply decurrent. Pileus irregular, somewhat ex- 

 centric, or wavy, scarcely hj'grophanous, margin at flrst 

 flocculose. 



Sericelli. 



GiUs adnate, slightly decurrent. Pileus regular, silky 

 or atomate, margin involute, naked. 



* OECELLI. 



Clitopilus prunulus. Scopoli. (fig. 11, p. 236.) 

 Pileus 2-4 in. across, truly fleshy, compact, convex then 

 expanded, at length depressed, wavy or unequal, slightlj' 

 pruinose, white or rarely greyish ; flesh thick, white, un- 

 changeable ; gills very decurrent, narrow at both ends, but 

 especially so behind, slightly crowded, quite entire, white 

 then flesh-colour; stem solid, firm, somewhat ventricose, 

 1 in. and more long, about ^ in. thick, naked, often striate, 

 white, base villose ; spores elliptical, smooth, 7-8 X o jj.. 



Agaricus prunulus. Scop., Cam., 437 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 126; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 822. 



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