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fleshy, thin, fragile, campanulate, then expanded, obtuse, smooth, 

 hygrophanous. St. 6-8 cm. x 4-8 mm., whitish, equal, twisted, some- 

 what striate, apex mealy, attenuated at the praemorse base. Gills 

 whitish, adnexed, rather broad, transversely pellucid- striate and veined, 

 crowded. Flesh white, thick at the disc. Spores white, elliptical, 

 10 x 6-7 /A. Smell none, or strong of garlic. Caespitose, or solitary. 

 Birch stumps. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1036. C. xylophila (Weinm.) Fr. (= Mycena rugosa Fr. sec. Quel.) 

 Fr. Icon. t. 63, lower figs. v\ov, wood; <tXo<?, loving. 



P. 6-10 cm., whitish, or becoming fuscous tan at the disc, slightly 

 fleshy, campanulate, lax, obtuse, or with a minute umbo, then ex- 

 panded, broadly gibbous, smooth, moist ; margin often rimosely split. 

 St. 4-8 cm. x 5-8 mm., whitish, equal, often flexuose, fibrillosely 

 striate. Gills white, adnate, often decurrent with a small tooth, very 

 narrow, 2 mm. broad, very crowded. Flesh becoming watery fuscous, 

 thin, fragile. Spores white, "elliptical, 4 x 2-5/x" Massee. Caespitose. 

 Old stumps. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



ft. St. thin, velvety, floccose, or pruinose. 

 *Gills broad, subdistant. 



1037. C. velutipes (Curt.) Fr. (= Pleurotus velutipes (Curt.) Quel.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 191, t. 184, fig. A. Vellus, a fleece; pes, foot. 



P. 2-10 cm.., fulvous, or tawny, sometimes paler at the margin, fleshy, 

 convex, soon becoming plane, often excentric, irregular and repand, 

 smooth, viscid; margin spreading, at length slightly striate. St. 5- 

 10 cm. x 4-8 mm., lemon yellow, then umber and blackish, equal, often 

 ascending, or twisted, tough, cartilaginous, densely velvety. Gills 

 pallid yellow, becoming tawny, broader and rounded behind, slightly 

 adnexed, subdistant, very unequal. Flesh yellowish, thin at the margin, 

 watery, soft. Spores white, elliptical, 7-8 x 5/x,, 1-2-guttulate. 

 "Cystidia conic, rather acute, almost subulate, 8-12;u, broad, pro- 

 truding part 18-30 /u- long" Lange. Taste and smell very pleasant. 

 Edible. Caespitose. On old stumps, fallen trunks, and pales. Aug. 

 April. Common, (v.v.) 



var. lactea Quel. Lactea, milk-white. 



Differs from the type in being creamy white. Stumps. Oct. (v.v.) 



var. rubescens Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 1141, t. 650. 



Rubescens, becoming reddish. 



Differs from the type in the bright ferruginous brown p., the darker 

 blackish cinnamon St., and the gills becoming spotted with brown. 

 Amongst fir leaves. 



