Part 52

Resembling an Agaric in habit.

=albidus=, Fr. P. 1.5-2.5 cm. infundib. wavy, glabrous, pallid, sometimes indistinctly zoned; g. dichotomous, white; s. 2-3 cm. solid, subequal, glabrous; sp. ----.

Tough, sometimes tinged brown or yellow.

** Pileus submembranaceous; stem tubular, polished.

=tubaeformis=, Fr. P. 3-5 cm. infundib. wavy, lobed, flocculose, brownish then pale; g. thick, distant, much branched, smoky yellow, not pruinose; s. 4-7 cm. hollow, glabrous, lacunose, tawny-orange; sp. 9 x 6-7.

var. lutescens, Fr. P. convex, umbil. almost regular, nearly glabrous; g. less divided. Connects present sp. with C. infundibuliformis.

var. lutescens, Fr. P. convex, umbil. almost even and regular; g. less divided.

Differs in more equal stem narrowed upwards.

Connects C. tubaeformis with C. infundibuliformis.

=infundibuliformis=, Fr. P. 2-6 cm. thin; infundib. floccoso-rugose, smoky yellow then pale; g. thick, dichotomous, greyish yellow, pruinose; s. fistulose, even, glabrous, yellow; sp. 9-10 x 6.

=cinereus=, Fr. P. 3-5 cm. thin, infundib. open at base, blackish grey, villosely-squamulose; g. thick, distant, grey; s. 3-5 cm. paler than p.; sp. 7 x 5. (15-8 Sacc.)

Resembling Craterellus cornucopioides but having distinct gills.

=cupulatus=, Fr. P. 1-1.5 cm. plano-infundib. wavy, hygr. pallid fuscous or brownish, flocculose when dry; g. very distant, branched, grey; s. 2-3 cm. stuffed, polished, colour of p.; sp. 7 x 5.

=Houghtoni=, Phil. P. 2-3 cm. convex, umbil. wavy, whitish; g. slightly decur. narrow, tinged pink; s. 3-5 cm. equal, whitish, stuffed; sp. 7 x 4.

=Stevensoni=, B. and Br. P. 5-8 mm. orbicular, umbil. pallid, smooth; g. decur. pallid; s. 1-1.5 cm. slender, cylindrical, white then darker, pulverulent; sp. ----.

=replexus=, Fr. P. 1.5-2.5 cm. campan. convex, exp. and inversed, striate, brown then grey; g. adnato-decur. veined, branched, distant, white or glaucous; s. 3-5 cm. fistulose, glabrous, thickened upwards; sp. ----.

Habit of a Mycena but g. thick and fold-like.

var. devexus, Fr. P. cucullate; s. stuffed; g. simple, grey.

B. MERISMA. Stems very numerous, united into an elongated column, or branched.

C. PLEUROPUS. Stem exactly lateral.

=muscigenus=, Fr. P. 1-1.5 cm. spathulate, horizontal, glabrous, zoned, yellowish brown or fuscous, greyish white when old; g. thick, distant, branched, colour of p.; s. short, base downy; sp. 10-12 x 6-8.

Differs from C. glaucus in being brown when moist, and from C. retirugis in having a distinct lateral stem.

=glaucus=, Batsch. Grey. P. 1 cm. ligulate, ascending, silky, not zoned; g. fold-like, tumid, distant, forked; s. short, pruinose; sp. 5 x 3.

D. RESUPINATE. Pileus cup-shaped at first, fixed by the vertex, then subreflexed.

* Growing on mosses.

Gills acute, much resembling an Agaric.

Close to C. bryophilus.

=retirugus=, Fr. P. 1-2 cm. thin, exp. wavy and lobed, greyish-white, adfixed by fibrils behind; g. radiating from centre, very thin, reticulated; sp. 10 x 8.