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1072. C. protracta Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 67, fig. 2. Protracta, drawn out. 

 P. 2 cm., grey-fuscous, shining, submembranaceous, convexo-plane, 



disc depressed, often with a little central umbo; margin paler, striate. 

 St. 15-16 cm. x 2-3 mm,, livid grey, very cartilaginous, tense, straight, 

 smooth, attenuated at the base into a tapering, subterranean, strigosely 

 fibrous root. Gills grey, delicately white-pruinose, adfixed, very ventri- 

 cose, as if truncate behind, very broad, 6 mm., subdistant. Spores 

 white, "elliptical, 7-9 x 5-6 /x," Bres. Mossy ground near stumps in 

 fir woods. Aug. Nov. Rare. 



1073. C. tesquorum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 70, .fig. 3. Tesqua, deserts. 

 P. 6-10 mm., fuscous black, becoming pale, fleshy-membranaceous, 



slightly firm, convex, very obtuse, smooth. St. 2-4 cm. x 2 mm., 

 fuscous, somewhat filiform, equal, flexuose, smooth, apex mealy. Gills 

 cinereous fuscous, free, very ventricose, 4 mm. broad, subdistant. Flesh 

 concolorous, thin. Spores white, broadly elliptical, 78 x 5-6jLt, 

 echinulate. Waste ground, and open pastures. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1074. C. clusilis Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 215, t. 247, lower figs. 



Clusilis, easily closing. 



P. 1-3-5 cm., livid, becoming pale, grey clay colour when dry, sub- 

 membranaceous, rather plane, disc depressed, or broadly umbilicate, 

 very much sloped downwards towards the margin, smooth, soft, 

 fragile; margin at first incurved, slightly striate when moist. St. 

 4 cm. x 2 mm., livid, cartilaginous, soft, flexile, equal, smooth, 

 polished, stuffed with a white floccose pith. Gills white, becoming cream 

 colour, adnate, plane, with a decurrent tooth, 4-8 mm. broad, in the 

 form of a segment, somewhat crowded. Flesh white, thin at the margin. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 8-9 x 4-5^,, with a large central gutta. 

 Amongst moss and grass on heaths, and hillsides. Sept. Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



1075. C. tylicolor Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 215, t. 247, upper figs. 



Tylus, a crustacean allied to the woodlouse; color, colour. 

 P. 1-3 cm., grey cinereous, slightly fleshy, convex, then flattened, 

 subumbonate, smooth, opaque. St. 2-5 cm. x 2 mm., grey, somewhat 

 fragile, equal, whitish-pulverulent. Gills grey, paler than the p., free, 

 broad, plane, distant, rather thick. Spores white, "oval, 5-5-6 x 3-3-5/Lt, 

 minutely echinulate" Sacc. Deciduous woods amongst grass. Oct. 

 Eare. 



Introduced species. 



1076. C. Dorotheas Berk. Lady Dorothy Neville. 

 P. 2-3 cm., dark brown, becoming paler, globose, then flatly hemi- 

 spherical, at length expanded, slightly umbonate, finally de- 

 pressed, radiately sulcate almost to the disc, granulated, covered with 



