Part 54 (1/2)

=chloropolius=, Fr. P. 2-3 cm. exp. striate, livid, centre with black squamules; g. adnate, pallid; s. 4-5 cm. even, bluish-green; sp. rough, 7-8 5. (12-14 6-8 Sacc.)

[=pallens=, Karst. P. convex exp. disc slightly depr. glabrous, livid, pale and s.h.i.+ning when dry; g. adnate, seceding; s. pallid, glabrous; sp.

rough, 9-10.

[=melleo-pallens=, Karst. P. convex, entirely striate, glabrous, s.h.i.+ning, brownish honey-colour then pale; g. soon free, edge darker; s.

colour of p. base with white down; sp. rough, 13-15 10-11.

***** _Gills grey or glaucous. Pileus hygr. substriate._

=asprella=, Fr. P. 3-4 cm. exp. glabrous or fibrillose, striate, umbilicus downy then squamulose, sooty then livid grey; g. adnate, equally narrowed to the edge; s. 3-4 cm. slender, even, glabrous, livid, tinged green or blue; sp. 10-12 6-8.

[=scabrosa=, Fr. P. exp. umbilic. from the first, not striate, squamulose, sooty-brown, then grey, hygr.; g. adnate, segmentoid, grey; s. even, apex with black points and white meal.

=nefrens=, Fr. P. 3-4 cm. exp. then infundib. hygr. rather wavy, livid sooty, depression darkest, pale when dry; g. broad, edge blackish, entire; s. 2-3 cm. glabrous, livid fuscous; sp. 4-5 3.

Differs from _L. serrulata_ in entire edge of g. and absence of black points at apex of s.

[=sarcita=, Fr. Fragile. P. exp. radiato-striate, uniform, hygr. torn into fibrillose scales, smoky, h.o.a.ry when dry; g. linear, thick, distant, glaucous; s. short, glabrous; sp. 10-12 8.

****** _Gills white._

[=Kervernii=, Guern. P. fleshy-ochre or buff-yellow, dotted with flecks; g. free, ventricose; s. slightly squamulose, s.h.i.+ning white, often compr.

base cottony.

[=Queletii=, Boud. P. white with scattered rosy-amethyst flecks; g.

white then rosy; s. white then yellowish; sp. rough, 14.

[=sericella=, Bull. s.h.i.+ning white. P. silky; g. flesh-colour; s.

slender, fibrillose.

[=Gillotii=, Q. Diaphanous, becoming hyaline white. P. striate, umbil.

tinged olive; s. fistulose, silky, base white-downy; sp. rough, 9.

[=parasitica=, Q. Pruinose, s.h.i.+ning white. P. orbicular; g. sinuate, white then rosy; s. arcuate, apex dilated.

[=aemulans=, Karst. P. convex, umbil. innately squamulose, grey, opaque; g. adnate, broad, smoky; s. glabrous, dusky livid, base whitish.

Resembles _c.l.i.topilus vilis_.

c.l.i.tOPILUS, Fr.

I. ORCELLI. _Gills deeply decur. Pileus irreg. subexcentric, wavy, scarcely hygr. edge at first flocculose._

=prunulus=, Scop. Smell like new meal. P. 5-9 cm. compact, convex and regular then wavy, dry, pruinose, greyish white; g. rather distant; s.

2-3 cm. ventricose, naked, striate, white; sp. 7-8 5. Edible.

=orcella=, Bull. Smell like new meal. P. 5-7 cm. soft, plano-depr.

irreg. from first, silky, rather viscid when moist, yellowish-white; g.