Chitonia 



AGARICACE^E 



784. C. epigseus Sacc. (from its growing on the ground ; Gr. epigaios y 



upon the earth) a. 

 P. subreniform, becoming horizontal, fragile, reddish-grey. St. a 



villous lateral base. G. rounded on base, watery, rufescent. 

 On marlstone clay. Nov. Diam. i| in. 



785. C. Ralfsii Sacc. (after J. Ralfs) a b c. 



P. reniform, horizontal, slightly hispid-furfuraceous, yellow. 



St. almost obsolete. G. rounded to a lateral base, clay-colour, 



edge whitish. 



Decaying wood, dead branches. March. Diam. in. 

 785a. C. putrigenus Sacc. (from its habitat, rotten logs ; puter, 



putrid, gigno, to bear) a c. 

 P. membranous, dimidiate or reniform, pubescent, whitish; 



marg. substriate, base villose. G. broad, irregular, unequal, 



whitish, then coloured by the ferruginous-brown spores. 

 Gregarious, or imbricate, in close clusters, closely sessile. Damp or putrid 



logs, beech. Sept. P. f x | in. 



SERIES IV. PRATELL^E Fr. 

 (From the habitat ; pratum, a meadow.) 

 Spores typically black-purple or fuscous-purple, often fuscous, 



brown-black or dark brown. 



Genera XXXII XXXVIII. 



XXXII. CHITONIA Karst. 



(From the veil which in infancy covers the plant like a cloak; 

 Gr. chiton, a tunic.) 



Veil universal, separate from the piletis and remaining as a volva 

 at the base of the stem. Hymenophore distinct from the fleshy 



Fig. 41. Section of Chitonia rubriceps Sacc. 

 One-half natural size. 



stem. Pileus subfleshy. Stem central, simple, hollow, volvate. Gills 

 free. Spores fuscous-purple. (Fig. 41.) 



Represented only by one introduced species. 



