Chitonia 



AGARICACE/E 



169 



784. C. epigseus Sacc. (from its growing on the ground ; Gr. epigaios, 



upon the earth) a. 

 P. subreniform, becoming horizontal, fragile, reddish-grey. St. a 



villous lateral base. G. rounded on base, watery, rufescent. 

 On marlstone clay. Nov. Diam. ij in. 



785. C. Ralfsii Sacc. (after J. Ralfs) a b c. 



P. reniform, horizontal, slightly hispid-furfuraceous, yellow. 

 St. almost obsolete. G. rounded to a lateral base, clay-colour, 

 edge whitish. 

 Decaying wood, dead branches. March. Diam. J in. 

 785a. C. putrigenus Sacc. (from its habitat, rotten logs ; puter, 

 putrid, gigno, to bear) a c. 

 P. membranous, dimidiate or reniform, pubescent, whitish ; 

 marg. substriate, base villose. G. broad, irregular, unequal, 

 whitish, then coloured by the ferruginous-brown spores. 



Gregarious, or imbricate, in close clusters, closely sessile. Damp or putrid 

 logs, beech. Sept. P. f x § in. 



Series IV. PRATELL^ Fr. 

 (From the habitat ; pratum, a meadow.) 

 Spores typically black-purple or fuscous-purple, often 



brown-black or dark brown. 



Genera XXXII- 



fuscous, 

 XXXVIII. 



XXXII. CHITONIA Karst. 



(From the veil which in infancy covers the plant like a cloak; 



Gr. chiton, a tunic.) 



Veil universal, separate from the pileus and remaining as a volva 

 at the base of the stem. Hymenophore distinct from the fleshy 



Fig. 41. — Section of Chitonia rubriccps Sacc. 

 One-half natural size. 



stem. Pileus subfleshy. Stem central, simple, hollow, volvate. 

 free. Spores fuscous-purple. (Fig. 41.) 



Represented only by one introduced species. 



Gills 



