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cose, crowded, grey then reddish; spores globose, coarsely 

 nodulose, 56 //, diameter. 



Agaricus depluem, Batsch, Consp., f. 122; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 139 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 344s. 



On the ground, usually attached to moss. 



Very variable, sometimes with a central stem. Flesh 

 thin ; watery, fragile. (Fries.) 



Distinguished from C. variabilis by the presence of a stem, 

 and more especially by the globose, warted spores. Cooke's 

 figures represent this species growing on wood. 



Claudopus byssisedus. Pers. 



Pileus up to f in. across, flesh rather thick, resupinate then 

 horizontal, reniform, plane, downy, grey becoming pale, 

 margin usually incurved ; stem lateral, very short, incurved, 

 with white down at the base ; gills adnato-decurrent, rather 

 broad, grey then with a pink tinge ; spores globose, angularly 

 warted, 6-7 /*. 



Agaricus byssisedus, Persoon, Ic. Descr., t. 14, f. 4; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 139; Cke., Illustr., t. 344c. 



On rotten wood, and on the ground. 



Distinguished by the grey pileus. resembling somewhat 

 JPleurotus applicatus, but distinguished by the stem and pink 

 spores. 



Eesupinate when young, stem incurved, villous, attenuated 

 upwards, more distinct (^ in. long) and persistent than in 

 Ag. depluens, clothed at the base with white down, exactly as 

 in Ag. dictyorhizus, with which the present is exactly analo- 

 gous. Pileus rather fleshy, at length horizontal, reniform, 

 plane, |-1 in. broad, even, villous, grey, pale when dry, 

 flesh same colour, thin. Gills adnato-decurrent, ventricose, 

 rather broad, greyish-white, then reddish from the spores. 

 (Fries.) 



ECCILIA. Fries, (figs. 12, 13, p. 236.) 



Pileus thin, at first umbilicate, margin incurved when 

 young ; gills narrowed behind, truly decurrent, not seceding 

 when the pileus is much depressed, pinkish or salmon-colour ; 

 stem central, cartilaginous, tubular (tube stuffed or hollow), 



