NYCTALIS. CANTHARELLUS 541 



*Spores white. 



Keceptacle fleshy, stipitate; gills simple. Parasitic on other Agarics. 

 Nyctalis Fr. 

 (vv, night.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular. Stem central, fleshy, confluent with the 

 pileus. Gills adnate, or decurrent, thick, soft, edge obtuse. Spores 

 white, elliptical, smooth. Chlamydospores often present. Growing 

 on other Agarics, more rarely on the ground. 



1786. N. parasitica (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1068, t. 1113. 



Parasitica, parasitic. 



P. 1-5-3 cm., whitish fuscous, then becoming pale whitish, somewhat 

 fleshy, conico-campanulate, then convex, plane, and obtuse, or obso- 

 letely umbonate, unequal, pellicle persistent, pruinose, grey. St. 

 2-5-6 cm. x 2-4 mm., white, straight, or curved, equal, or slightly 

 attenuated upwards, pubescent, bristling with hairs at the base. 

 Gills white, becoming fuscous, adnate, thick, distant, with alternate 

 shorter ones intermixed, at length contorted and anastomosing. 

 Flesh dark grey. Spores white, elliptical, 5-7 x 3-4 ju,. Smell 

 like Polyporus squamosus. On dead Russula adusta, Russula foetens, 

 Russula chloroides and Lactarius velkreus. Aug. Dec. Common. 

 (v.v.) 



1787. N. asterophora Fr. aa-r^p, a star; (frepw, I bear. 

 P. 1-1-5 cm., white, then fawn colour from the large stellate chlamydo- 



spores, 15-20 /x, fleshy, conical, then hemispherical, fioccoso-pulveru- 

 lent. St. 1-2 cm. x 2-4 mm., white, then fuscous, equal, often twisted, 

 pruinose. Gills white, then dingy, adnate, distant, thick, tense and 

 straight, somewhat forked, often wanting. Flesh dark grey. Spores 

 white, "elliptical, 6 x 4 /A" Kick. On dead Russula nigricans. July 

 Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



N. caliginosa W. G. Sm. = ? a diseased state of some Clitocybe. 

 Trogia Fr. = Plicatura Peck. 



Eeceptacle fleshy, stipitate; gills forked. 



Cantharellus Adans. 

 (icavdapos, a drinking cup.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular, excentric, or lobed. Stem central, confluent 

 with the pileus. Gills decurrent, thick, branched. Spores white, rarely 

 pale ochraceous in the mass, elliptical, oval, or pip-shaped, smooth; 

 basidia with 4-8-sterigmata. Cystidia present, or absent. Growing 

 on the ground. 



