Ecdlia Claudopus, 137 



atropuncta, Pers. P. 1 2 cm. soft, hemispherical, pale grey ; 

 g. decur. arcuate, rosy-grey ; s. 2 4 cm. rather tough, pallid, shining, 

 with black dot-like squamules ; sp. rough, 5 6. 



[calophylla, Pers. P. hemispher. umbil. sooty umber ; g. decur. 

 reddish-purple ; s. narrowed upwards, rather thick, somewhat viscid, 

 colour of p., at first purplish, shining. 



rhodocylix, Lasch. P. 1 1*5 cm. umbil. -infundib. remotely 

 striate when moist, somewhat fuscous, flocculose and grey when dry ; 

 g. very distant, broad ; s. 2 3 cm. glabrous, grey ; sp. rough, 10. 



[rusticoides, Gill. P. convex, umbil. striate, glabrous, hygr. 

 brown, paler when dry ; g. decur. thick, distant, forked, rufous-brown ; 

 s. slender, colour of p. 



flosculus, W. G. Sm. P. 1'5 2 cm. deeply umbil. with crystalline 

 particles, irreg. black brown, whitish with age ; g. decur. rather wavy ; 

 s. 2 cm. reddish ; sp. rough. 



Probably introduced. 



acus, W. G. Sm. P. 1 1'5 cm. deeply umbil. densely pruinose, 

 white, edge striate and incurved ; g. thick, distant ; s. 2 3 cm. smooth, 

 whitish ; sp. rough. 



Probably introduced. 



[tristis, Bres. Smell like spirit-of-wine. P. convexo-subcampan. 

 umbil. edge crisped, striate, moist, glabrous, brown ; g. distant, thick, 

 broad, arcuato-decur. fleshy-brown ; colour of p. glabrous ; sp. rough, 

 810. 



CLAUDOPUS, W. G. Sm. 



[translucens, D. C. P. subsessile, thin, orbicular, wavy, pellucid, 

 white tinged reddish ; g. free, pallid then reddish lilac ; sp. 4 6 

 long. 



variabilis, Pers. P. 1 1-5 cm. resupinate, then reflexed, tomen- 

 tose, white, attached by a very short incurved downy stem which 

 disappears when the pileus turns over ; g. radiating from an excentric 

 point, distant, white then pink ; sp. 3 x 2. 



var. sphaerosporm, Pat. P. white, tomentose ; g. paler than 

 type ; sp. globose, echinulate, tinged red. 



depluens, Batsch. P. 11 '5 cm. more or less convex, edge in- 

 curved, resupinate then reflexed, white or tinged reddish, usually 

 with a very short downy s. ; g. broad, ventricose, grey then tinged 

 rufescent ; sp. glob, rough, 5 6. (9 11 x 6 8 Sacc.) 



Differs from C. variabilis in globose, warted s. 



[inaecLuabilis, Sacc. Entirely rusty, stipitate ; p. oblique, almost 

 glabrous; g. sinuato-free, ventricose; s. very excentric, short, base 

 dilated, incurved ; sp. 8 x 6. 



[macrosporus, Pat. and Doas. P. exp. depressed at an excentric 

 point corresponding to insertion of stem, reddish brown, striate up 

 to depression ; g. broad, distant, reddish ; s. short, excentric, enlarged 

 into a flat plate at base ; sp. 1518 x 12. 



