456 CBEPIDOTUS 



plane, delicately villose. St. 4-8 x 2-4 mm., white, attenuated upwards, 

 almost conical, round, villose, somewhat ascending when young, then 

 straight and horizontal. Gills pallid, then fuscous cinnamon, deter- 

 minate, rounded, somewhat crowded. Flesh pallid, watery, thin. 

 Spores "ellipsoid, ochraceous, 6-7 x 4-5-5-5/x" Sacc. On dead trunks, 

 and fallen branches of poplar. June Oct. Rare. 



C. Rubi Berk. = Naucoria effugiens Quel. 



C. variabilis (Pers.) Quel. = Claudopus variabilis (Pers.) W. G. Sni. 



1489. C. chimonophilus B. & Br. Cke. Hlus. no. 536, t. 515, fig. D. 



XIIJ,Q>V, winter; <i\os, loving. 



Entirely pure white. P. 4-6 mm., convex, fleshy, clothed with villose 

 down; margin inflexed. St. extremely short, or obsolete, excentric.. 

 Gills attenuated behind, narrow, distant, few. Flesh white, rather thick. 

 Spores pale cinnamon, elliptical, 5 x 3/i. Dead branches of Pyrus 

 torminalis. Dec. Rare. 



1490. C. epibryus Fr. Cke. nius. no. 537, t. 516, fig. C. 



eVt, upon; ftpvov, moss. 



P. 4-10 mm., shining white, membranaceous, cup-shaped, resupinate, 

 sessile, pellucid, adnate at the vertex, becoming silky-even. Gills 

 whitish, then pale yellowish, concurrent in the centre, thin, crowded. 

 Flesh white, very thin. Spores "ochraceous, elliptical, fusiform, 

 10-12/A, minutely echinulate" Quel. On mosses, grass, holly-leaves, 

 Vaccinium, twigs, and herbaceous stems. Oct. Jan. Uncommon. 



1491. C. pezizoides (Nees) Fr. Cke. IUus. no. 537, t. 516, fig. D. 



Treft?, Peziza; eZSo<?, like. 



P. 4-6 mm., whitish, or reddish, sessile, thin, cup-shaped, then re- 

 flexed, mealy subtomentose. GUIs olivaceous fuscous, then tawny, con- 

 current at the centre, subdistant. Gregarious. On rotten branches, 

 and old wood. Rare. 



1492. C. Phillipsii B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 536, t. 515, fig. C. 



W. Phillips of Shrewsbury, the eminent mycologist. 



Slightly umber. P. 4-6 mm., oblique, striate, smooth. St. 2-3 x 

 5 mm., incurved at the base, sometimes obsolete. Gills shortly 

 adnate, narrow, ventricose. Flesh concolorous, very thin. Spores pale 

 ochraceous, elliptical, 56 x 2-5-3/x. Dead grass leaves, and stems. 

 May Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1493. C. Ralfsii B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 537, t. 516, fig. B. 



J. Ralfs, an eminent botanist. 



P. 5-15 mm., yellow, or fuscous, semi-reflexed, delicately furfura- 

 ceous, slightly hispid, the involute margin spreading, adfixed by 



