CLASSIFICATION 139 



spotted black when bruised ; stem brownish or greyish white, 

 2-4 in. long. 



Gills becoming altogether blackish with age. 



On the ground. Usually appearing after much rain. 



C. longipes.- — Cap 1-2 in. across, umbonate, pale brown, minutely 

 velvety ; gills white ; stem 4-6 in. long, colour of cap, velvety, 

 rooting. 



Known by the velvety cap and stem. 



On old stumps, etc. 



C. platyphylla. — Cap 3-4 in. across, fragile, brown, then grey or 

 pale, fibrillosely streaked ; gills cut out behind, broad, distant, 

 white ; stem 3-4 in. long, whitish, striate, base abrupt, and ending 

 in a spreading mass of branched, white, cord-like mycelium. 



On rotten wood, among leaves, etc. 



C. fusipes (PI. XIII, fig. 4).^ — Cap i\-2\ in. across, often um- 

 bonate, dry, reddish bay, becoming tan-colour ; gills white, then 

 almost colour of cap and spotted ; stem 3-4 in. long, ventricose or 

 swollen at the middle, grooved, colour of the cap. 



On or near stumps. Tufted. 



C. lancipes. — Cap 2-3 in. across, umbonate, radiately wrinkled, 

 pale flesh-colour ; gills very broad behind, tinged flesh-colour ; 

 stem 3-4 in. long, stout, narrowed towards the base, rooting, 

 whitish with a tinge of flesh-colour. 



On the ground. 



ft Gills narrotv, crou'ded. 



C. maculata (PI. XII, fig. 5). — Cap 2-5 in. across, convex, then 

 expanded, whitish, becoming more or less spotted and stained 

 with reddish brown ; gills crowded, white, then pallid ; stem 3-4 

 in. long, stout, rooting, grooved, white, spotted like the cap. 



In pine and other woods, etc. 



var. immaculata. — Cap and stem not discoloured. 



C. prolixa. — Cap 3-4 in. across, broadly gibbous, tawny, with a 

 brick-red tinge; gills free, white, not spotted; stem about 3 in. 

 long, with a brick-red tinge, grooved. 



Among leaves, etc. Tufted. 



C. distorta. — Cap about 3 in. across, umbonate, bay, becoming 

 pale ; gills white, becoming spotted reddish ; stem about 3 in. long, 

 twisted, grooved, pallid. 



On rotten pine trunks, heaps of leaves, etc. 



C. hutyracea (PI. XII, fig. 3). — Cap 2-3 in. across, umbonate, 

 reddish brown, shining and feeling as if oiled, pale when dry ; 

 gills white, not becoming spotted ; stem 2-3 in. high, base thick- 

 ened, narrowed upwards, rufous. 



Very near to C. distorta, differing in the gills not becoming spotted. 



On the ground in woods. Growing in troops. 



