CLASSIFICATION 187 



pressed, streaked, opaque-white, slightly rooting, downy-squamulose 

 above, up to i in. long. 



On the ground. Often densely clustered. 



C. Infundibuliformes 

 * Cap coloured, oy becoming pallid, silky. 



C. gigantea (PI. XVI, fig. 3). — Cap fleshy, but thin in proportion 

 to the size of the fungus, depressed from the first, and becoming 

 plano-infundibuliform, edge incurved, then spreading, rather 

 coarsely striate, smooth, white or whitish tan, 6-10 in. across ; 

 gills slightly decurrent, broad, much-crowded, branched and con- 

 nected by veins, whitish, then pale tan ; stem 1-2 in. long, and 

 nearly the same in thickness, solid, pallid. 



Entirely whitish tan-colour ; cap often excentric and lobed, 

 sometimes up to i foot across. 



On the 'ground. Often subcaespitose. Edible. 



C. maxima. — Cap with a fleshy disc, remainder thin, broadly 

 infundibuliform, somewhat umbonate at the base of the depression, 

 flaccid, edge even, whitish or pale tan-colour, 6-g in. across ; gills 

 deeply decurrent, rather crowded, soft, whitish ; stem stout, 

 slightly narrowed upwards, fibrillose, whitish, solid, 3-4 in. long. 



Differs from C. gigantea in the deeply decurrent gills, cap more 

 infundibuliform, with the umbo persistent at the bottom of the 

 depression, and the longer stem. 



Among grass in woods and pastures. Edible. 



C. infundibuliformis. — Cap with the disc fleshy, remainder thin, 

 firm when young, becoming flaccid, convex, then depressed with 

 a gibbous umbo, edge incurved, finally infundibuliform, yellowish 

 flesh-colour, then buff, becoming pallid, up to 3 in. across ; gills 

 decurrent, rather crowded, much narrowed at both ends, soft, white ; 

 stem firm, elastic, conically narrowed, rarely equal, pallid, 2-3 in. 

 long. 



Colour variable, more or less rufescent or flesh-colour, passing 

 through buff to whitish. Not white at first. 



Among moss in fields and woods. Smell pleasant. 



var. memhranaceus. — More slender than the typical form ; cap 

 not umbonate and brighter in colour. 



In woods, etc. 



C. trullceformis. — Cap infundibuliform, edge flat and spreading, 

 obtuse, floccosely downy, dry, greyish brown, not changing colour, 

 about 2 in. across, flesh snow-white ; gills decurrent, distant, con- 

 nected by veins, shining white ; stem elastic, narrowed upwards, 

 fibrillosely striate, grey, downy below, about 2 in. long. 



Resembling C. cyathiformis in general shape and colour of the 

 cap and stem, but differs in the white flesh and shining white gills. 



