512 COPBINUS 



then expanded, at length upturned, plicato-sulcate, splitting along 

 the backs of the gills; margin crenate. St. 2-3 cm. x 1-2 mm., 

 whitish-hyaline, glabrous, equal, base slightly thickened and densely 

 strigose-squamulose. Gills pale, then blackish, free, ending close to the 

 st., rather narrow, 25-30 in number in the larger pilei; intermediate 

 shorter ones few or none. Flesh whitish, very thin. Spores dark 

 brown-purple, laterally compressed, front view obtusely cordate, 

 9-10/u, diameter, side view elliptical, 9-11 x 5-6/n. Cystidia cylindric- 

 fusiform, 50 x lOp,. On cow, horse, sheep, and rabbit dung. April 

 Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1681. C. radiatus (Bolt.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 671, t. 683, fig. A. 



Radiatus, beaming. 



P. 2-6 mm,, dingy yellowish, or greyish, disc darker, often rufescent, 

 very tender, membranaceous, clavate, then campanulate, soon opening 

 into furrows, flattened, radiato-plicate, pellucid, covered with cinereous 

 down, soon naked. St. 5-25 x 1 mm., hyaline, equal, often pruinose 

 when young, becoming smooth, base silky and villose. Gills whitish, 

 then pallid blackish, free, few, distant. Flesh white, very thin. Spores 

 black, elliptical, 7-8 x 4-5/4. In troops. Cow, and horse dung. 

 Woods, and pastures. May Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



1682. C. Spraguei Berk. & Curt. Cke. Illus. no. 671, t. 683, fig. B. 



Charles J. Sprague. 



P. 1-2 cm., greyish, disc tawny, very tender, membranaceous, 

 conical, then campanulate, at length expanded and revolute, tomen- 

 tose, plicate; margin coarsely striate. St. 3 4 cm. x 1-2 mm., pale 

 cinnamon, equal, smooth. Gills white, then blackish, free, few, dis- 

 tant, narrow. Flesh whitish, tawny at the disc, very thin. Spores 

 black, "elliptical, slightly curved, 10 x 5/z" Massee. Gardens. July. 

 Rare. 



1683. C. urticaecola (B. & Br.) Buller. Cke. Illus. no. 622, t. 596, 

 fig. B, as Psathyra urticaecola B. & Br. 



Urtica, nettle; colo, I inhabit. 



P. 46 mm., chalky white, spherical, then hemispherical, becoming 

 revolute and radially split, beset with numerous, small, white scales, 

 composed of matted hyphae. St. 1-5-2 cm. x 2 mm., white, at- 

 tenuated upwards, smooth, hollow, base floccose. Gills white, then 

 chocolate, ventricose, 1-5 mm. wide, very thin. Spores chocolate, oval, 

 7 x 4/Li; basidia dimorphic. Cystidia cylindrical-oval, firmly fixed 

 by both ends. Nettle roots, sticks, dead leaves and grass haulms. 

 June Aug. Uncommon. 



1684. C. platypus Berk. Cke. Illus. no. 675, t. 687, fig. B. 



7T\aTi><;, broad; rroixf, foot. 

 P. 4-6 mm., white, then ochraceous flocculose, campanulate, convex, 



