li!
coloured ; pileus tliin, conve.x, subumbonate; stem slender,
tough, stuffed; folds rather distant, linear, extremely narrow,
sometimes forked, obtusely decurrent.—Ann. of Nat. Hist,
ser. 3. vol. ii. p. 262.
Amongst grass. In the park at Hitchin, Mr. J. Brown.
Pileus about 4 an inch across; stem slender, 14-2 inches high.
A very interesting and distinct species.
4. C. nmbonatus, P . ; pileus fleshy, thin, umbonate, then
depressed, flocculose, cinereous-black; stem stuffed, equal,
paler; gills straight, crowded, white.
Amongst moss. Mossburnford, A. Jerdon, Esq. Resembles
closely an Agaric, hut the forked, obtuse gills, if properly
observed, are decisive as to its affinities.
5. C. tubseformis, F r .; pileus carnoso-memhranaceous,
funnel-shaped, curved and lobed, flocculose, brownish, turning*
pale; stem smooth, hollow, orange-tawny, at length compressed
and lacunose; gills thick, distant, branched, yellow or
dingy, naked.—Ditm. in Sturm, i. t. 30.
In woods. Not uncommon. Remarkable for the bright
tint of the stem. C. lutescens, Fr., Bull. t. 473. f. 3, has a
paler yellow stem, and the gills less divided; the pileus,
moreover, is merely umbilicate. I t is scarcely to be deemed
a species. I t occurs in the same localities with C. tubaformis.
6. C. infundibuliformis, F r .; pileus submembranaceous,
umbilicate, then funnel-shaped, floccoso-rugose, dingy-yellow,
turning pale; stem fistulöse, even, smooth, yellow; gills thick,
distant, dichotomous, yellow or cinereous, at length pruinose.
—Sow. t. 47.
In woods. Not uncommon, but difficult to distinguish
from the last.
7. C. otnereus, F r .; pileus submembranaceous, infundibuliform,
pervious to the base, villoso-squamulose, dingy-hlack.
;
as well as the hollow stem; gills thick, distant, cinereous.—
Kromb. t. 45. / . 12; Bolt. t. 34.
In woods. Bare. Not found since the days of Bolton.
8. C. muscigenus, F r .; pileus submembranaceous, spathulate,
horizontal, smooth, zoned, brown, then cinereous-
white ; stem even, lateral, villous at the base; gills swollen,
distant, branched, of the same colour.—Bull. t. 288, 498./. 1.
On the larger mosses. Not common. Berwick, Br. Johnston,
on Tortula ruralis. Bristol, C. E. Broome.
9. C. retirugus, F r .; thin - membranaceous, expanded,
lobed, curved, fixed behind with little threads, pale cinereous-
white ; gills radiating from the centre, very delicate, reticulate.
(Plate 14, fig. 2.)
On mosses, in swamps. King’s Cliffe, in tolerable abundance.
10. C. lobatus, F r .; memhranaceous, sessile, horizontal,
lobed, brown; gills fold-like, distinct, banded, diverging.—
Bolt. t. 177.
On mosses, in swamps. Not common. Very nearly allied
to the last.
11. NYCTALIS, Fr.
Hymenophorum confluent with the stem and trama. Gills
fleshy, juicy, or suhgelatinous, obtuse, unequal. Often parasitic
on other Fungi. Veil universal.
1. N. asterophora, Fr.; pileus rather fleshy, hemispherical,
breaking up into a pulverulent fawn-coloured stratum;
stem stuffed, pruinose, white, then brownish, twisted; gills
adnate, distant, somewhat forked, straight, dingy.—Ditm. in
Sturm, t. 26.
On dead dried Agarics. Common. The meal which covers
the pileus when full-grown consists of stellate bodies, whioli