438 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



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

 intervals ; gills deeply decurreut, rather distant, 2 lines 

 broad, distinctly counecied by veins, grey ; stem about 2 in, 

 long, |-J- in. thick, equal, slightly curved, even, smooth, 

 white, downy at the base, stuifed, expanding into the pileus ; 

 spores elliptical, 8 x 4 /i. 



Agaricus (Glytocyhe) zygophyllus, Clfe. and Mass., Grev., xv. 

 p. 67 ; Cke., lllustr., pi. 948 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 367. 



Among leaves. 



Eeadily known among the grey-gilled species by the- 

 deeply decurrent gills being connected by veins, and the 

 puckered margin of the pileus. 



Clitocybe ditopa. Fr. 



Smell strong, resembling meal. Pilens 1-1§ in. across, 

 flesh thin ; convex then plane, at length depressed, dingy 

 brownish-grey, even, glabrous, hygrophanous ; gills slightly 

 decurrent, crowded, thin, about 1 line broad, dark brownish- 

 grey; stem about 1 in. long, 1 J line thick, equal, almost 

 smooth, coloured like the pileus, hollow. 



Agaricus {Glitocybe) ditopus. Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 171 ^ 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 69; Cke., lllustr., pi. 116. 



In woods, especially pine. 



Eesembling C. metachroa in stature, but distinguished by 

 the strong smell of new meal. Pilens brownish-grey, convex 

 when small, the larger forms depressed and wavy. (Fries.) 



Clitocybe pausiaca. Fr. 



Pileus about 1 in. across, flesh thin, convex then plane,, 

 even, glabrous, umber with an olive tinge, ochraceous when 

 dry ; gills obtusely adnate, ventricose, crowded, olivaceous- 

 umber; stem 2-3 in. long, IJ lino thick, equal, striate, 

 coloured like the pileus, apex powdered with white meal, 

 hollow. 



Agaricus (Clitocybe) pausiacus, Fries, Epicr., p. 77 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 59 ; Fries, Icon., t. 58, f. 2. 



In pine woods. 



Smell weak, but distinctly mealy. Stem imperfectly 

 hollow, 2-3 in. long, IJ line thick, equal, striate and the 

 surface undulated, apex with white meal, coloured like the 

 pileus. Pileus fleshy, thin, at first convex, somewhat um- 

 bonate, then plane or slightly depressed, 1 in. broad, even. 



