CLITOCYBE, 435 



nmbilicate, 1 in. across, glabrous, striate to tte middle, 

 blackisli-brown, pale-grey when diy. Gills slightly decnr- 

 rent, distant, broad, dark-grey vriih. white meal. (B.) Stem 

 spongy and soft, at first stuifed with downy fi.brils, then 

 hollow, entirely glabrous, even, and naked. Pileus infun- 

 dibulifoTm. Gills grey, and everywhere very watery, tough, 

 flexible, inodorous. (Fries.) 



Clitocybe prtiinosa. Lasch. 



Pileus about 2 in. across, flesh thin, greyish; umbilicate 

 then infundibuHform, almost even, brown, pruiaose at first, 

 then glabrous; gills slightly decurrent, crowded, narrow, 

 whitish then dingy; stem about li in. long, H-2 lines 

 thick, equal, fibrillose, coloured like the pileus, somewhat 

 stufi'ed. 



Agarlcvs pruinosas, Lasch, in Fries, Hym. Eur., p. 101 ; 

 C'ke., ULustr., pi. 231 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 58. 



Pine woods among moss, and on trunks. 



Slender, rigid, inodorous, stem stuffed or imperfectly 

 hollow, 1^ in. long, 1|^ line thick, equal, often ascending or 

 curved, fibrillose when young, colour of the pileus, but often 

 paler. Flesh of pileus almost membranaceous, uoibLLicate 

 and pruinose when young, broadly infundibuliform and 

 i;iabrous when adult, brown, grey and squamulose when dry. 

 Flesh thin, becoming greyish. Gills decurrent, crowded, 

 narrow, slightly arcuate when young, falcate when adult ; 

 white, then sordid. Eeadily distinguished from neighbour- 

 ing species by colour and habit. (Fries.) 



Clitocybe concava. Scop. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh very thin ; broadly and deeply 

 umbilicate, somewhat pierced at the base, limb convexo- 

 plane, wavy, hygrophanous, dark grey; gills decurrent, 

 crowded, narrow, smoky-grey ; stem 1-1|^ in. long, 1-2 lines 

 thick, equal, glabrous, grey, stuffed. 



Agaricus coneavus, Scopoli, Fl. Cam., p. 449 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 58. 



In pastures, &c. 



A very distract species, gregarious, inodorous, entirely 

 smoky-grey. Stem stuffed, tough, composed entirely of 

 soft fibres, usually short, 1 in. or a little more, 1-2 lines 

 thick, equal, naked, glabrous, grey. Pileus very thin, 



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