I40 BRITISH FUNGI 



C. bibulosa. — Cap 1-2 in. across, obtuse, dusky green when 

 moist, grey when dry ; gills narrow, dingy ; stem i|-2 in. long, 

 pale clear brown. 



On stumps in small clusters, 



C. pulla. — Cap thin, fragile, campanulate, then gradually ex- 

 panding, even, smooth, hygrophanous, shining, dark chestnut- 

 brown, purplish bay, livid purplish grey or nearly black, pale when 

 dry, i|-2| in. across ; gills adnexed, somewhat broad, crowded, 

 transversely striate, M'hitish ; stem hollow, twisted, somewhat 

 striate, soft, naked, sometimes rooting, whitish, 3-4 in. long. 



Under birches, among Polytrichum, etc. 



C. xylopliila. — Cap 2-3 in. across, fragile, broadly gibbous, disc 

 brownish tan, edge whitish ; gills adnate, white ; stem 2 in. long, 

 whitish, striate. 



On rotten trunks. Generally densely tufted. 



** Stem thin, even, velvety, floccose or pruinose. 



t Gills broad, rather distant. 



C. velutipes (PI. XIII, fig. i). — Cap i|-3 in. across, viscid, bright 

 yellow, disc darker or altogether tawny ; gills pale opaque yellow ; 

 stem i^-2| in. long, dark brown, velvety. 



Known by dark brown, velvety stem and tufted growth. 



On trunks, logs, etc. 



C. laxipes. — Cap |-| in. across, soon plane, whitish or tinged 

 buff ; gills whitish ; stem 3-4 in. long, slender, with rufous, velvety 

 down, apex pale. Much smaller than C. fusipes. 



On chips, twigs, etc. 



C. floccipes. — Cap |-§ in. across, umbonate, sooty brown, then 

 pale ; gills white ; stem i|-2 in. long, whitish, rough with minute 

 black points, rooting. 



On stumps and on the ground. 



C. niimica .—Csip about i in. across, smooth, soon plane, dingy 

 ochraceous ; stem about 2 in. long, fibrillose, base narrowed, wav}^ 

 ochraceous ; gills ochraceous, very broad, rather distant, thin, white. 



Smell and taste strong, like fish. 



Among wood shavings. 



C. vertiruga. — Cap J-i in. across, thin, tough, radially wrinkled, 

 dull brown or grey ; gills white with a tinge of yellow ; stem 2-2 1 

 in. long, tawny, minutely velvety, base strigose. 



Differs from C. stipitaria in the dingy cap and the adnate gills 

 connected by veins. 



On dead twigs, fern roots, etc. 



C. stipitaria. — Cap 2-5 lines across, thin, convex, then plane, 

 umbilicate, whitish, with brown fibrils ; gills soon free, wfiite ; 

 stem 1-2 in. long, tough, brown, more or less hairy. 



On grass, twigs, etc. 



