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Slender, the gills are thinner than nsual and the fundus is con- 

 sidered by some as being a Clitocyhc. 



On heaths and in fir woods, etc. 



C. broivnii. — Entirely ochraceous white or cream-colour. Cap 

 thin, orbicular, obtuse or slightly umbonate, rather silky, about J in 

 across ; gills subdecurrent, very narrow, rather distant, simple or 

 forked ; stem slender, tough. 



Differs from a typical Cantlun'cllits in the almost simple, \ery 

 narrow, not decurrent gills. 



Among grass. 



C. carbonarius. — Cap thin, pliant, usually irregular, umbilicate 

 or deeply depressed, squamulose, bay, then blackish, il-2\ in. across; 

 gills decurrent, straight, narrow, white ; stem more or less rooting, 

 sometimes l-)ranched and bearing 2-^y caps, white or greyish, 1-3 in. 

 long. 



A variable species, but known by the depressed blackish cap 

 whitish gills and rooting stem which is often branched. 



On charcoal or on the ground where charcoal has been burnt 



C. umbonatus. — Cap fleshy, expanded, umbonate, then depressed, 

 rather flocculose, grey, then blackish, up to i in. across ; gills 

 decurrent, crowded, straight, shining white ; stem elastic, base 

 downy, paler than the cap, 2-3 in. long. 



Differs from C. carbonarius in the stem not being rooting, and in 

 the more regular cap. 



Among moss, etc., in woods. 



C. albidus. — Cap thin, more or less infundibuliform, irregular and 

 wavy, indistinctly zoned, whitish or with a tinge of yellow ; gills 

 decurrent, thin, rather crowded, repeatedly forked, white ; stem 

 smooth, white, i-ij in. long. 



Tough. White or tinged yellow, somewhat zoned. 



In pastures among moss, etc. 



C. tubcejorniis. — Cap thin, pliant, infundibulilonu, \\a\-ed and 

 lobed, flocculose, yellowish brown, then pale ; gills slightly decur- 

 rent, thick, distant, often branched, smoky yellow ; stem almost 

 ecpial, often compressed and lacunose, smooth, hollow, dull tawny- 

 orange, 2-3 in. long. 



Distinguished from C. iiifiDidibifliformis in the deeply umbilicate, 

 broader, usually waved and lobed cap, and in the cavity of the cap 

 not opening into, and being continuous with the cavity of the stem. 



On the ground in woods, also on rotten wood. 



var. liitescens. — Stem equal or narrowed upwards, caji convex, 

 umbilicate, regular, almost even ; gills forked. 



Intermediate between C. titbccforniis and C. injiiiidilntlijormis. 



C. injimdihidiformis (PI. XVIII, fig. i). — Caj) thin, umbilicate, 

 then infundiiiuliform, usually perforated at the base and opening 

 into the hollow of the stem, floccosely wrinkled, 3/ellowish grey 



