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mealy; base cottony, white, and attenuated. Gills dark cinereous, 

 deeply decurrent, 4 mm. broad, thin, entire, or undulate. Spores 

 "distinctly rusty-brown, pure yellow under the microscope, elliptical, 

 7-8 x 4-5/z" Rick. Downs, and hilly pastures. Sept. Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



var. viarum Fr. Via, a way. 



Differs from the type in the greyish hoary, smooth, shining, zoned p., 

 and glabrous stem. 



965. C. cancrinus Fr. (=Eccilia cancrina (Fr.) Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 95, 

 fig. 4. Cancer, a crab. 



P. 2-3 cm., whitish tan, or wholly white, becoming pale, slightly 

 fleshy, submembranaceous, convex, then plane, very irregularly shaped, 

 at length broken into cracks, becoming flocculoso-even. St. 2-2-5 cm. 

 x2-4 mm., white, round, or compressed, equal, or enlarged upwards, 

 base white- villose, the mycelium often gathering the soil into a ball. 

 Gills white, then flesh colour, truly decurrent, distant, 3 mm. broad, 

 rather thick, arcuate when young then straight. Flesh white, hyaline 

 near the gills. Spores pink, angular, oblong, 9 x 5-6/z, multi-guttu- 

 late. Pastures, and roadsides. July Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



966. C. cretatus B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 345, t. 375, fig. B. 



Cretatus, marked with chalk. 



P. 6-18 mm., dead white, but shining, membranaceous, convex, 

 then umbilicate, margin involute. St. 46 x 12 mm., white, often 

 curved at the base, sometimes thickened, tomentose, especially below. 

 Gills rose colour, very decurrent, narrow. Flesh white. Spores pink, 

 elliptical, 7-8 x 3-4jU. Woods, and pastures. Aug. Oct. Uncom- 

 mon, (v.v.) 



II. P. regular, silky, or hygrophanous-silky ; margin naked. 

 Gills adnate, slightly decurrent. 



967. C. carneo-albus (With.) Fr. (= Eccilia carneo-alba (With.) 

 Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 349, t. 324, upper figs. 



Caro, flesh; albus, white. 



P. 1'5 3 cm., white, disc often becoming reddish, or yellowish, convex, 

 then expanded and depressed, slightly silky. St. 2-3 cm. x 4-6 mm., 

 white, unequal, fibroso-striate, silky. Gills white, then flesh colour, 

 adnato-decurrent, narrow. Flesh white, thin. Spores pink, angular, 

 "10x6/z" Sacc. Woods, and heaths. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



968. C. angustus (Pers.) Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 96, fig. 3. A ngustus, narrow. 

 P 1-2 cm., bluish-grey-cinereous, somewhat fleshy, convexo-plane, 



subumbonate, hygrophanous, silky-shining when dry. St. 7-8 x 1- 



