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thick, and fold-like, margin obtuse and paler. Pileus glabrous 

 or cracked into squamules. (Fries.) 



Var. devexus, Fries, S^^st Myc, i. p. 158 ; ( .'ke., lUustr., 

 pi. 1150a. 



Differs from the type in the bent down margin of the 

 pileus, stuffed stem, and unbranched grey gills ; spores 

 <5 X 4/x. 



On scorched ground. 



Cooke's figures show the pileus upturned at the margin. 



II. PLEUEOPUS. 



Cantharellus muscigenus. Fr. 



Pileus ^-J in. across, somewhat membranaceous, flaccid, 

 more or less spathulate, often depressed behind, horizontal, 

 smooth, usually zoned, yellowish-brown or fuscous, then 

 greyish-white when old and dry ; gills radiating, distant, 

 branched, thick, narrow, coloured like the pileus ; stem 1-2 

 lines long, slender, lateral, downy at the base. 



Cantharellus onmci genus, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p, 323 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 342 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1115a. 



On the larger mosses, Hijjmum, &c. 



Distinguished from C. glaucus by its habitat, and brownish 

 -colour when moist. 



Agreeing with C. retirugus in growing on mosses, but 

 known by the true lateral stem and thick gills. 



Cantharellus glaucus. Batsch. 



Entirely grey ; pileus up to h in, across, membranaceous, 

 strap-shaped or flabellate, ascending, silky, not zoned ; gills 

 radiating from the point of attachment of the stem, distant, 

 narrow, thick, forked ; stem lateral, expanding into the 

 pileus, about 1 line long, slightly pruinose ; spores elliptical, 

 smooth, 5 X 3 /x. 



Cantharellus glaucus, Cke., lUastr., pi. 1115b; Cke,, Hdbk., 

 p. 343. 



On the ground. 



Distinguished from C. muscigenus, the only other British 

 species with a lateral stem, by growing on the ground, and 

 by being altogether grey in colour. 



