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flocculose. St. 3-7 cm. x 3-8 mm., orange-tawny, at length compressed 

 and lacunose. Gills yellow, then pruinose and greyish, fold-like, de- 

 current, thick, distant, branched. Spores white, elliptical, 8-10 x 6/n. 

 Woods. Aug. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



var. lutescens (Bull.) Fr. Lutescens, becoming yellowish. 



Differs from the type in the convexo-umbilicate, somewhat regular 

 and rather even pileus, in the more equal stem, attenuated upwards and 

 in the dichotomous gills being less divided. Woods. Sept. Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



1796. C. infondibuliformis (Scop.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1062, t. 1109. 



Infundibulum, a funnel ; forma, shape. 



P. 25 cm., yellowish-cinereous, or fuliginous when moist, becoming 

 pale when dry, submembranaceous, umbilicate, then infundibuliform, 

 here and there pervious to the base, rugose, fibrillose. St. 4-8 cm. x 

 4-6 mm., light yellow, base somewhat thickened. Gills light yellowish, 

 then pruinose and grey, fold-like, decurrent, thick, distant, branched, 

 anastomosing. Spores white, broadly elliptical, or subglobose, 7-9 x 

 7 p. Woods. July Jan. Common, (v.v.) 



var. subramosus Bres. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 97. 



Sub, somewhat; ramosus, branched. 



Differs from the type in the somewhat branched stems. Woods. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1797. C. lutescens (Pers.) Fr. (= Craterellus lutescens (Pers.) Fr. Hym. 

 Eur.) Pers. Myc. Eur. n, t. 13, fig. 1, as Merulius xanthopus. 



Lutescens, becoming yellowish. 



P. 2-10 cm., fuscous, submembranaceous, tubaeform, soon pervious, 

 undulated, flocculose. St. 5-10 x 1 cm., golden yellow, attenuated at 

 the base, undulate. Gills yellow, inclining to reddish, or orange, fold- 

 like, thin, flexuose, anastomosing. Flesh yellowish, deeper at the 

 periphery. Spores white, elliptical, 10-12 x 6-7 -5 p. Smell strong, 

 spirituous. Mountainous fir woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1798. C. cinereus (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1063, t. 1110, fig. A. 



Cinereus, colour of ashes. 



P. 2-5 cm., hoary fuliginous, becoming whitish, submembranaceous, 

 infundibuliform, often pervious to the base of the stem, vittoso-squamu- 

 lose. St. 3-8 cm. x 4-8 mm., concolorous, then blackish, attenuated 

 downwards, curved, fibrillosely-striate. Gills cinereous, then whitish 

 pruinose, fold-like, decurrent, thick, distant, connected by veins, 

 slightly branched. Flesh blackish Spores white, elliptical, 7 x 5 /A. 

 Smell pleasant, "like the Mirabelle plum" Quel. Woods. Sept. Nov 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



