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A. Pileus fleshy, not hygrophanous, often becoming pale and silky
in drying.
a. Bisciformes. Pileus convex, then plane or depressed, regular.
Gills adnate or adnato decurrent.
Pileus ashy or brownish.___________________________ 153__159.
Pileus violaceous, rufescent. igo 163
Pileus becoming yellow. J64 167
Pileus green, except 170, then pale ; odour sweet. 168—170
Pileus white. jyj_______
b. Difformes. Pileus at first umbonate, then expanded or
depressed. Gills unequally decurrent. Generally cæspitose,
sometimes solitary. 173 igO
A Infundibuliformes. Pileus at length deeply depressed. Gills
truly decurrent. Often losing colour in drying.
Pileus coloured, becoming hyaline, minutely flocculose or
silky. Hygrophanous but not externally moist. 190—195
Pileus varied in colour. Moist in rainy weather. 196—204
Pileus shining whitish, slightly flocculoso-sprinkled or smooth.
205—207
B. Hygrophanous.
d. Cyathiformes. Pileus cup-shaped. Gills at first adnate, then
decurrent. Colours dull when moist. (Must not be
confounded with the Hydrogrammce, under Omphalia.)
208—214
A Orbiformes. Pileus convex, then plane or depressed, shining,
not mealy or squamulose. Gills adnate or adnato-toothed.’
Colours dull or watery-hyaline.
Pileus at first dark. Gills becoming ashy. 215—217
Pileus becoming pale. Gills whitish. 218 221
/ Versiformes. tough, more or less squamulose or
furfuraceous. Gills adnate or decurrent, somewhat thick,
distant. Stem tough.
Pilais dull or dusky with darker squamules. 222, 223
Pileus bright in colour. 224
153
a. Disciformes.
C. nebularis Quél, (from the frequent clouds of white mycelium
on the pileus ; nebula, a cloud) a b c.
P. smoky-brown, grey, or pale slate. St. spongy-elastic, whitish
or grey. G. crowded, shortly decurrent, white. Flesh opaque
white.
Laxly gregarious, rarely connate as in 123. Edible. Taste somewhat peppery •
odour of curd cheese. Woods, fir, beech, hedge-bottoms, etc , aifiongst
leaves ; common. Aug.-Dec. 6 x 4J X l i in. There is a white variety.
Must not be confounded with 128. The mycelium on pileus gives rise to
451. A similar mycelium occurs on 143.
154. C. elavipes Gill, (from the club-shaped stem ; clava, a club,
pes, a foot) a b c.
P. flat, sooty-brown or grey ; marg. often white. St. smoky-livid,
somewhat fibrillose. G. subdistant, deeply decurrent, white.
Flesh hyaline-whitish.
Odour mild, pleasant. Woods, spruce-fir, pine, beech ; common. July-Nov.
X 2§ X 4 in. There is a white variety. The pileus is sometimes 4 in.
or more in diam.
154a. C. eomitialis Gill, (perhaps from its being one of a number of
allied forms which meet at this position in Clitocybe) a.
P. obtuse, soon plane, even, glabrous, somewhat moist, not
hygrophanous, sooty-brown, almost black. St. stuffed, attenuate
upwards, obconic, glabrous, sooty-brown. G. subdecurrent,
horizontal, thin, crowded, white. Flesh white or whitish.
Odour none. Pine-woods, damp places amongst moss. Autumn.
i | X s i X A Firmer and smaller than 154.
155. C. gangrænosa Gill, (from its ulcerous appearance ; gangroena,
an ulcer) a b c.
P. livid, at first white-pulverulent. St. slender to stout, sooty-
grey. G. sub- or sinuato-decurrent.
Taste insipid, unpleasant ; odour sometimes strongly fetid, meal-like but
nauseous, sometimes strong and not unpleasant. Woods and plantations,
larch ; rare. Oct.-Nov. 3 | X 3i X f in. More or less changing within
and without to slate-colour or black ; the flesh changes from livid to
indigo, then black ; sepia-black when dry. Must not be confounded
with 1168.
155a. C. polia Karst. (Gr. polios, grey) a b.
P. glabrous, not hygrophanous, pale grey or pale olive-brownish ;
marg. whitish. St. solid, slightly attenuate upwards, white,
pale brownish below. G. somewhat deeply decurrent, closely
crowded, very narrow, white. Flesh white, pale brown in P.
Cæspitose, usually in small clusters, but sometimes i ft. 4 in. in diam.
Woods. Autumn. 2 X 3 | X § in.t
156. C. inornata Gill, (inornatus, unadorned) a b c.
P. with a separable livid-brownish pellicle, which frequently
cracks from the marg. upwards and peels up, unchanging livid.
St. greyish or brownish. G. decurrent, colour as St. Flesh
grey.
Odour mushroom-like. Fields, woods ; under cedars ; rare. Oct.-Nov.
4 X 2 | X 4 in.
156a. C. luseina Karst, (from the often small eye-like pileus and the
solitary habit; luscinus, one-eyed) a.
P. somewhat fleshy, even, edge spreading, glabrous, grey on a
pale reddish or buff ground, purple or slate-brown when young ;
marg. striate. St. solid, attenuate downwards, greyish or
faintly brownish, white pulverulent. G. subdecurrent, crowded,
yellowish- or salmon-whitish, shaded grey.
In pastures. Autumn. 2 X 2 X x®ît