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The bud is entirely enclosed in the veil, the outer layer of 

 which is felty-setulose, sub-ochraceous, while the inner is whitish 

 and granulöse. Wheu the cap expands, the veil breaks up into 

 minute, granular scales, dispersed on the translucid, radiately 

 splitting cap. — The sporepowder is blackish brown. By the 

 nature of its veil it forms a transition to group B. — C. similis 

 B. and Br. (sensu Bicken) seems to be identical. 



B. FARINOSI. 



15. C. ephemeroides (Bull.). 



Spores ovate -subrotund, subtriangular, somewhat flattened, 

 7!/ 2 — 9 x 6— 77a u, brownish-black. Cystidia globose, 23— 30 u. 

 Cells of granular veil globose or oval, 25— 30udiam. or 40xl8u. 



Fig. specim.: Odense, on horse- and cow-dung in pasture, 

 Sept. 1901. — Bather common on horse-droppings and manure- 

 heaps (cow- and horse-dung), in shady places, Aug.— Oct. 



This very characteristic little fungus is by some authors 

 referred to C. Hendersonii Berk., but differs totally from Fries' 

 description of this species by the mealy-granular coating on the 

 cap. The ring is usually free, but occasionally remains as a 

 volvaceous brim on the slightly swelled base of the stem. This 

 form is probably C. volvaceo-minimus Crossl. — €. bulbillosus 

 Pat. appears from the description to be identical. As C. ephe- 

 meroides is not known from England, while the English authors 

 describe C. Hendersonii as »pruinose«, the two are most likely 

 identical. The description by Quélet of C. H. fits my plant 

 fairly well. — The »free filament- in the cavity of the stem, 

 mentioned by Fries, I have not observed. 



16. C. cordisporus Gibbs. (Plate I, fig. g). 



Spores very broadly lemon-shaped or triangular-subrotund, some- 

 what flattened, 6 1 /,— 87 8 x 6 -67 2 H- Basidia 4-spored. Cells on 

 surface of cap subglobose, 20 — 40 u diam. 



Fig. specim.: Sollerup, on horse-droppings in a meadow near 

 Arreskov Sø, Oct. 1908. 



Cap at first ovate, 1—3 ram high, then convex-expanded, 

 17 2 — 8 mm broad, when young totally covered by a whitish 

 (sub-ochraceous) mealy-granular veil, when expanded radiately 

 fisso-sulcate, disc slightly depressed. Stem 1— 2 cm x 7 3 mm, 

 almost glabrous, base slightly mealy-downy. 



Smaller than C. ephemeroides and without ring, but for the 

 rest very much like this species. The smallest specimens suggest 

 C. Gibbsii (Mass. et Crossl.). 



