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1791. C. Brownii B. & Br. (= Naucoria pediades Fr. sec. Pat., a 

 monstrous form described as a Ptychella.) Cke. Illus. no. 1058, 

 t. 1106, fig. A. J. Brown. 



Entirely ochraceous white, or cream coloured. P. 10-15 mm., thin, 

 convex, subumbonate, obscurely silky. St. 4-5 cm. x 1-2 mm., tough, 

 nearly equal, somewhat furfuraceous, furnished with a little white, 

 fibrillose mycelium at the base, which sometimes forms a small earthy 

 ball. Gills fold-like, obtusely decurrent, rather distant, linear, very 

 narrow, sometimes forked. Hymenium nearly white. Spores white, 

 broadly elliptical, 7 x 5-6/x,. Amongst grass. Autumn. Rare. 



1792. C. carbonarius (A. & S.) Fr. (= Xerotus degener Fr. sec. Quel.; 

 Cantharellus radicosus (B. & Br.) Fr.) Cke. Illus. no. 1059, 

 t. 1105. Carbonarius, pertaining to charcoal 



P. 1-6 cm., date brown, then black, umbilicate, or infundibuliform, 

 coriaceous, minutely squamulose\ margin lobed. St. 3 6 cm. x 3- 

 10 mm., paler than the pileus, rooting, striate, sometimes branched. 

 Gills white, then glaucous, or grey, decurrent, straight, narrow. Flesh 

 whitish. Spores white, elliptical, 9-10 x 5-6/x, 2-3-guttulate. Cys- 

 tidia fusiform, apex acute, 3-4/u, in diam., 95-120 x 13-14/z, very 

 thick walled, upper portion incrusted. Charcoal heaps, and burnt 

 ground. July Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



1793. C. umbonatus (Gmel.) Fr. Umbonatus, umbonate. 

 P. 1-5-4 cm., cinereous blackish, convex, umbonate, at length de- 

 pressed, flocculosely- silky; margin incurved, white. St. 5-8 cm. x 7- 

 10 mm., concolorous, base white floccose, elastic, equal. Gills shining 

 white, decurrent, thin, straight, crowded, repeatedly dichotomous. Flesh 

 white, often becoming red when wounded. Spores white, pip-shaped, 

 8-9 x 3^-4 fj,, 1-guttulate. Cystidia none. Woods, and heaths. April 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1794. C. albidus Fr. Albidus, whitish. 

 P. 1-2-5 cm., whitish, inclining to yellowish, or rufescent, convex, 



umbilicate, thin, lobed, slightly villose. St. 2-4 cm. x 4-8 mm., white, 

 rarely yellowish, tough, flexuose. Gills white, then yellowish, decurrent, 

 crowded, repeatedly dichotomous. Flesh white, yellowish under the 

 cuticle. Spores white, elliptical, 6-7 x 4-5/a, 1-guttulate. Cystidia 

 none. Taste mild. Edible. Woods, and pastures. Sept. Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



**P. submembranaceous ; st. tubular, polished. 



1795. C. tubaefonnis Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1061, t. 1108. 



Tuba, a trumpet ; forma, shape. 



P. 2-6 cm., fuscous when moist, becoming pale when dry, fleshy- 

 membranaceous, infundibuliform, deeply umbilicate, repand and lobed, 



