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1483. C. applanatus (Pers.) Fr. Applanatus, flattened. 

 P. 1-8 cm., watery cinnamon, or fuliginous, whitish when dry, very 



hygrophanous, fleshy, fragile, wholly plane and horizontal, extended 

 behind in a straight line into a very short, white, tomentose St., reniform, 

 or cuneiform, at length depressed behind, subsessile, minutely tomen- 

 tose; margin slightly striate when moist. Gills whitish, then watery 

 cinnamon, ending determinately behind, linear, crowded, thin. Flesh 

 whitish, watery, soft. Spores brownish, elliptical, 7-8 x 5/u,, with a 

 large central gutta. Cystidia "on edge of gill cylindrical-filiform, 

 36-40 x 5-7 /A" Rick. On twigs and dead wood. Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



1484. C. calolepis Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 129, fig. 4. 



fca\6<;, beautiful; XeTW, scale. 



P. 1-7 cm., cream, or pale yellow, beautifully variegated with minute, 

 crowded, rufescent scales, fleshy, reniform, convex, almost shell-shaped, 

 dimidiate, sessile on a small villose knot, margined with white behind. 

 Gills pallid fuscous, then fuscous ferruginous, concurrent at the base, 

 rounded behind, comparatively broad. Flesh white, firm, fairly thick. 

 Spores brownish, elliptical, 7-9 x 5-6 p,. Stumps, and fallen branches, 

 especially poplar, and ash. Common, (v.v.) 



1485. C. putrigenus Berk. & Curt. Puter, rotten; genus, birth. 

 P. 12-19 mm., whitish, subreniform, imbricate, tomentose, beset 



at the base with a delicate white tomentum. Gills whitish, becoming 

 ferruginous brown, broad. Spores ferruginous, subglobose, 7/u,. Damp 

 wood. Sept. Rare. 



1486. C. versutus Peck. Versutus, deceitful. 

 P. 9-20 mm., white, resupinate, then reflexed, sessile, thin, covered 



with a soft villose tomentum ; margin incurved. Gills pallid, then ferrugi- 

 nous, concurrent in an excentric point, rounded behind, rather broad, 

 subdistant. Flesh white, thin. Spores ferruginous brown, subelliptical, 

 9-10 x 4-5 /A. On dead wood, and rotten branches. June Nov. Not 

 uncommon, (v.v.) 



1487. C. epigaeus (Pers.) B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 537, t. 516, fig. A. 



eiriyaios, upon the earth. 



P. 1-2 cm., reddish grey, fragile, reniform, or flabellate ; base 

 whitish, downy. Gills watery rufescent, divergent, narrow. Flesh pallid, 

 very thin. Spores pale cinnamon, broadly elliptical, 10 x 7 /A. On 

 marlstone clay. Nov. Rare. 



1488. C. haustellaris Fr. (= C. flurstedtiensis (Batsch) Sacc.) Cke. 

 Illus. no. 536, t. 515, fig. A. Haurio, I draw water. 



P. 2-3 cm., pale yellowish tan, becoming pale, but often cinnamon 

 wJien old, fleshy, almost pellucid, flaccid, exactly lateral, reniform, 



