CLASSIFICATION 141 



C. ingrata. — Cap about i|- in. across, thin, tough, globose, then 

 campanulate, umbonate, dingy brownish tan ; gills free, crowded, 

 very narrow, pallid ; stem 2-3 in. long, often twisted, wavy and 

 compressed, brownish. 



Allied to C. confiiiens, but differing in habit and in the brownish 

 stems not being matted together at the base. 



Damp localities in woods. 



f I Gills very narrow, closely croipded. 



C. hariolarum. —Cap 1-2 in. across, thin, tough, wliitish ; gills 

 whitish ; stem up to 3 in. long, reddish brown, apex pale, entirely 

 covered with a whitish woolly down. 



On rotten wood and among leaves, especially beech. 



C. confiiiens. — Cap about i in. across, tough, rufescent when 

 moist, then pale ; gills closely crowded, very narrow ; stem 3-5 in, 

 long, rufous, everywhere covered with white down, often densely 

 crowded and compressed. 



Known by the crowded habit, crowded rufous stems covered 

 with white down, and the thin, phant caps. 



In woods among leaves. 



C. conigena. — Cap |-i in. across, soon plane, somewhat um- 

 bonate, yellowish brick-red, then quite pale ; gills pallid ; stem 

 1-3 in. long, slender, colour of cap, at first covered everywhere 

 with white powder. 



In pine woods on fallen cones and among pine needles, 



C. cirrhata. — Cap up to | in. across, rufescent, then whitish ; 

 gills white ; stem 1-2 in. long, very slender, wavy, with white 

 mealy down, running out into a long fibrillose root. 



C. racemosa. — Cap 3-4 lines across, thin, convex, papillate, 

 covered with grey down ; gills adnate, crowded, white ; stem 1-2 in. 

 long, bearing slender, minute stems with abortive pilei, base black, 

 sclerotioid. 



Perhaps an abnormal condition of some species. 



On decayed agarics, and on the ground. 



Among damp moss and leaves. 



C. hiherosa (PI. XII, fig. 2). — Cap up to | in. across, thin, um- 

 bonate, opaque, white ; gills white ; stem |— 1| in. long, white, 

 springing from a smooth yellowish or reddish sclerotium, 1-3 lines 

 across. 



Growing on old dead species of Rnssiila and other agarics, and 

 amongst moss. 



*** Stem thin, equal, naked, smootli (except the base). 



f Gills broad, lax, usually more or less distant. 



C. collina. — Cap 1-2 in. across, umbonate when expanded, brown 

 or tan-colour, pale when dry ; gills broad, white, then pallid ; stem 

 3-4 in. long, fragile, smooth, pallid, base downy. 



In grassy places. 



