Differs from C. variabilis in denticulate edge of gills and sp.

[Klukii, Blonski. P. shell-shaped, reniform, downy, greyish-tan; g. crowded, decur. whitish then bright rosy; s. slightly curved, base white and downy; sp. 5-6 × 3.

Allied to C. byssisedus but larger.

[Peteauxi, Q. P. cupulate then reniform, wavy, thin, fragile, minutely tomentose, shining white; g. free, sinuate, radiating from a central point which is continued into a very short, white tomentose stem; sp. 7 long.

OCHROSPORAE.

  1. A. Gills separating spontaneously, or very easily from flesh of pileus.
  2. Paxillus. Margin of pileus persistently involute; gills decurrent or adnato-decurrent.
    1. * Stem furnished with a volva, or an interwoven ring, or with both.
    2. Locellina. Volva and ring both present.
      1. + Stem central.
      2. Pluteolus. Gills free.
      3. Bolbitius. Pileus membranaceous; gills deliquescent at maturity.
      4. Inocybe. Stem fleshy, fibrous externally; pileus fibrillose or scaly; gills sinuato-adnexed.
      5. Hebeloma. Stem fleshy, fibrous externally; pileus glabrous, viscid; gills sinuato-adnexed.
      6. Naucoria. Stem cartilaginous externally; edge of pileus incurved at first; gills adnexed or adnate.
      8. Galera. Stem cartilaginous externally; edge of pileus straight at first; gills adnexed or adnate, often with a decurrent tooth.
      9. Tubaria. Stem cartilaginous externally; gills broadest behind, decurrent or adnato-decurrent.
      10. Flammula. Stem fleshy, fibrous externally; gills adnate or decurrent.
      11. Cortinarius. Universal veil cobweb-like, not forming an interwoven ring, often collapsing and forming a ring-like zone on the stem; stem fleshy, fibrous.
      12. ++ Stem excentric or absent.
      13. Crepidotus.
    3. Pholiota. Ring alone present.
    4. ** Volva and ring both absent.
  3. B. Gills not separating spontaneously, nor easily from flesh of pileus.

PAXILLUS, Fr.

  1. A. Lepista. Pileus entire, central.
  2. [sordarius, Fr. P. convexo-gibbous then plano-depr. dingy white, edge at length spreading and sulcate; g. adnate, crowded; s. spongy-stuffed, equal, striate, greyish white; sp. 8 × 6.
  3. Alexandri, Fr. P. 4-7 cm. compact, plane then depr. dry, fawn, edge strongly incurved; g. subdecur. yellowish; s. 1-2 cm. stout; sp. 4-5 × 2-3.
  4. lepista, Fr. P. 4-9 cm. plano-depr. dry, dingy white, edge incurved, even, naked; g. deeply decur. rather branched, crowded, whitish; s. solid, stout, pallid; sp. 8 × 6.
  5. Differs from large sp. of Clitocybe by strongly incurved p. and dingy spores.
  6. extenuatus, Fr. P. 2-5 cm. rigid, campan. exp. naked, glabrous, moist, brownish tan, edge incurved, downy, even; g. deeply decur. closely crowded, white then dingy; s. 3-5 cm. solid, base tuberous, rooting; sp. ——.
  7. panaeolus, Fr. P. 2-4 cm. thin, exp. subdepr. glabrous, moist, white, edge incurved, thin; g. slightly decur. crowded, narrow, pale rusty; s. 2-3 cm. rufescent, thickened below; sp. subg. 5.
  8. var. spilomaeolus, Fr. P. with drop-like spots; s. slender, yellowish white; g. pale rusty.
  9. [nitens, Lamb. P. convex, fleshy, glutinous in damp weather, shining and velvety when dry, yellow-brown, edge incurved, paler; g. free, sinuate, closely crowded, becoming olive-brown; s. reddish-yellow, base darker.
  10. orcelloides, Cke. and Mass. P. 2-4 cm. thin, exp. snow-white then with greyish blotches, edge incurved; g. adnato-decur. white then brownish; s. 2-3 cm. tapering to base, ochre; sp. 8 × 4.
  11. Differs from P. panaeolus in tapering stem and sp.
  12. lividus, Cke. P. 2-5 cm. convex, disc depr. margin arched and incurved, dingy white or livid ochre; g. decur. broad, white; s. 6-9 cm. narrowed downwards, white; sp. glob. 3-3.5, whitish.
  13. Probably a sp. of Clitocybe.
  14. revolutus, Cke. P. 2-3 cm. convex, pale ochre, edge thin, sometimes tinged lilac, a little upturned; g. deeply decur. pale tan; s. 2-3 cm. narrowed downwards, paler than p., often tinged violet at base; sp. glob. 3.5-4.
  15. Differs from P. lividus in deeply decur. coloured g.
  16. B. Tapinia. Pileus usually excentric or resupinate.
  17. involutus, Fr. P. 7-12 cm. convex then depr. moist, rusty orange, incurved edge downy, flesh pallid; g. branched, broad, anastomosing behind, dingy ochre; s. solid, firm, 3-4 cm.; sp. 8-12 × 5-6.
  18. var. excentricus, Fr. P. excentric; s. short, growing on wood.
  19. paradoxus, Cke. P. 2-6 cm. convex then exp. sometimes irreg. densely tomentose, rufous umber with purple tinge; g. decur. connected by veins, yellow; s. 2-3 cm. fibrillose, red and yellow; sp. 20-22 × 7-8.
  20. leptopus, Fr. P. 4-7 cm. excentric, gibbous then depr. yellow-brown, torn into downy squamules, flesh yellow; g. simple, very narrow, yellowish then darker; s. 1-2 cm. solid, base narrowed; sp. 8-9 × 5.
  21. atrotomentosus, Fr. P. 6-12 cm. compact, excentric, gibbous then plano-infundib. dry, torn into granules, rusty; g. adnate, yellowish; s. solid, rooting, densely covered with blackish tomentum; sp. 5 × 3.
  22. [griseotomentosus, Fr. P. convexo-plane, gibbous, excentric, oblique, glabrous, tan, becoming rusty when bruised, edge incurved, downy; flesh watery; g. decur. broad, tan; s. stout, tuberous, velvety with grey down; sp. 9 long.
  23. [chrysophyllus, Trog. P. campan.-plane, horizontal, cracked into scales, pale cinnamon; g. decur. broad, white then citrin; s. short, ascending, pallid.
  24. crassus, Fr. P. 5-7 cm. oblique, nearly plane and even, becoming rusty; g. rather distant, cinnamon; s. very short, excentric, ascending; sp. 15-18 × 7-8.
  25. Strongly suggests the genus Flammula.
  26. [ionipus, Q. P. 5-10 cm. shell-shaped, oboval or oblong, glabrous, straw-colour with a tinge of olive, narrowed into a short, bulbous, tomentose, amethyst or lilac stem; flesh soft, citrin; g. decur. transversely veined, branched, tinged olive then cinnamon; sp. 6-7 long.
  27. panuoides, Fr. P. 4-7 cm. shell-shaped, downy then glabrous, sessile becoming resupinate, dingy yellow; g. decur. crowded, branched, crisped, yellow; sp. 4-5 × 3-4.
  28. var. fagi, Cke. Gregarious, crisped; g. crisped, orange.
  29. [lamellirugis, D. C. P. 2-5 cm. resupinate, cup-shaped then shell-shaped, downy, yellow; g. decur. branched, wavy and crisped, alveolate at the base, saffron then cinnamon; sp. 6 long.
  30. Perhaps identical with P. panuoides.

LOCELLINA, Gillet.