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4. C. Brownii B. & Br. Ochraceous-white or cream-coloured. Canthar- 

 Pileus about 12 mm. (% in.) broad, thin, convex, somewhat ellus- 

 umbonate, obscurely silky. Stem 4-5 cent. (1^2-2 in.) long, 

 stuffed, slender, tough, nearly equal, somewhat furfuraceous. 



Gills (folds) obtusely decurrent, rather distant, linear, extremely 

 narrow, sometimes forked, interstices smooth. 



Hymenium nearly white. Stem furnished with a little white fibrillose myce- 

 lium at the base, which sometimes forms a small earthy ball. A very distinct 

 species. 



Among grass. Hitchin. 



Name after J. Brown. Berk. O^lt. p. 215. C. Hbk. n. 643. Fr. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 456. 



5. C. carbonarius A. & S. Pileus date-brown then black, 

 somewhat fleshy, striato-squamulose, umbilicate. Stem paler. 

 Gills tense and straight, white. 



Rooted, fasciculate. The following seem to be the same : B. C. anthra- 

 cophilus, solitary, black, tough, pileus fleshy - membranaceous, naked, de- 

 pressed ; stem stuffed, slender, smooth, slightly rooted ; gills distant, dichoto- 

 mous. Leveill. Ann. Sc. Nat. 1841, p. 236. f.i^.f. 2. C. C. radicosus, slender, 

 pileus 18 mm. -2. 5 cent, (^-i in.), deeply umbilicate, floccose, black; stem 

 rooting, pallid ; hymenium white, gills narrow. Two or three pilei often 

 grow from the same obconical root, which is white and spongy. 



On charcoal heaps, c. Rare. Sept.-Nov. 



Spores 9x6 mk. IV.G.S. Name carbo, charcoal. From its habitat. 

 A. d^ S. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 456. C. radicosus B. <5r> Br. n. 1134. C. Hbk. 

 n. 647. Saund. & Sm. t. i. 



6. C. umbonatus Fr. Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) and more broad, 

 cinereous-blackish, slightly fleshy, convex when young, umbonate t 

 at length depressed, even, dry, jlocculoso-silky on the surface, 

 shining brightly especially under a lens; flesh soft, white, often 

 becoming red when wounded. Stem 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, about 

 8 mm. (4 lin.) thick, stuffed, equal, elastic, villous at the base, 

 cinereous, but paler than the pileus. Gills decurrent, thin, tense 

 and straight, crowded, repeatedly dichotomous, shining white. 



Odour and taste scarcely notable. Gregarious. Among the taller mosses 

 the stem is longer. Often overlooked from its habit being that of an Agaric. 

 It varies with the pileus squamulose and blackish. 



In woods. Rare. April-Aug. 



Name umbo, the boss of a shield. Umbonate. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 207. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 457. Berk. Out. p. 216. C. Hbk. n. 644. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 

 616. Hoffm. Ic. t. 22. /. 2. Ag. \Vulf. Jacqu. Coll. 2. t. i6.f. i. 



1. C. albidus Fr. Pileus 1-2.5 cent - (%-* in.) broad, whitish, 



