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gills; stem stuffed, pale, villoso-pulverulent; gills rounded,with a decurrcnt tooth, crowded, ventricose, dirty white.

On the ground, and amongst grass. This is A. blandus,Eng. El. The pileus is often pulverulent, and varies much incolour, according to its condition ; stem 2 inches high, 2 linesthick, brown within at the base. Frequently a very prettyspecies, perhaps too closely allied to A. brevipes. Klotzsch’sfigure, FI. Regn. Bor. t, 374, seems just intermediate.

71. A. (Tricholoma) subpulverulentus, P.; pileus fleshy,at first convex, even, with an innate white pruinose lustre;margin indexed ; stem solid, equal, smooth, somewhat striate;gills rounded, without any tooth, crowded, white.— Huss. ii.t. 39.

In pastures. Not uncommon. About 2 inches across.Dirty white or greyish, with a white lustre.

Subgenus 5. Ciitoctbb.—S tem elastic, with a fibrous outer coat;gills decurrent or acutely adnate.

* Pileus not changing colour when dry.

72. A. (Clitocybe) nebularis, Batsch; pileus fleshy, com-pact, obtuse, even, clouded with grey, at length naked ; stemstuffed, firm, striate with little fibres; gills arcuate, subdecur-rent, crowded, white, becoming pallid.— Grev. t. 9; Huss. ii.t. 9.

In woods. Common. The clouded cinereous pileus is cha-racteristic. Pileus 3 inches across; stem stout. Esculent.

73. A. (Clitocybe) fumosus, P.; subcartilaginous, rigid;pileus fleshy, at first convex, obtuse, even, naked, turningpale; cuticle adnate; stem stuffed, unequal, somewhat prui-nose above, grey or dirty white, as are the rather crowdedadnate gills.

In woods and waste ground. Not common. Solitary, or