180 OUTLINES OF BRITISH FUNGOLOOY, 



stem equal, naked, short, springing from radiating flocci ; gills 

 reaching the stem, nearly linear, white, then violet-black. — 

 Sow. t. 145. Desm. Ann. d. Sc. Nat. xiii. t. 10. /. 1. 



On plaster-walls. Sometimes very abundant. AVhen young 

 it looks like a little Lycoperdon. 



14. C. deliquescens, Fr. ; pileus sul^mcmbranaeeous, ovato- 

 campanulate, then expanded, rather irregular, broadly striate, 

 smooth, top studded with innate papillse ; stem hollow, smooth, 

 veiled ; gills at length remote, linear, dingy-l)lack. — Bull. t. 

 558. /. 1. 



On old stumps. Not common. Sometimes confounded 

 with C. atramentarius. 



2. Pileus gaping in the direction of the trama, licnce plicato- 

 sulcate. 



15. C. Hendersonii, Fr. ; pileus minute, at first eylindi'ical, 

 then ovali-eampanulate, at length plane, smooth, striate half- 

 way up ; stem filiform, at length smooth, with a small, erect, 

 entire ring; gills narrow, black. (Plate 24, fig. 8.) 



On hotbeds. Very rare. Milton, Norths. Looks like a 

 small, annulate A. disseminatus. Pileus minutely granulated 

 under a lens. 



16. C. macrocephalus, B. ; pileus at first cylindrical, then 

 cylindrico-campanulate, sprinkled with pointed scales; stem 

 dirty-white, fistulose, clothed with short, cottony down and 

 loose fibres, strigose at the base ; gills linear, perfectly 

 free. 



On putrid dung. Cotterstock, Norths. Pileus rather more 

 than I an inch across ; scales adpressed or patent ; fibrils of 

 stem deflexed, 



17. C. lagopus, Fr. ; pileus very thin, cylindrical, then cam- 

 panulate, clothed with white flocci, at length split, radiato- 



