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coloured ; pileus thin, convex, subumbonate ; stem slender, 

 tough, stuffed ; folds rather distant, linear, extremely narrow, 

 sometimes forked, obtusely decurrent. — Ann. of Nat. Hist. 

 ser. 2. vol. ii. p. 26.2. 



Amongst grass. In the park at Hitchin, Mr. J. Brown. 

 Pileus about ^ an inch across; stem slender, H-2 inches high. 

 A very interesting and distinct species. 



4. C. umbonatus, P. ; pileus fleshy, thin, umbonate, then 

 depressed, flocculosc, cinereous- black ; stem stuffed, equal, 

 paler; gills straight, crowded, white. 



Amongst moss. Mossburnford, A. Jerdon, Esq. Resembles 

 closely an Agaric, but the forked, obtuse gills, if properly 

 observed, are decisive as to its affinities. 



5. C. tubseformis, Fr. ; pileus carnoso- membranaceous, 

 funnel-shaped, curved and lobed, flocculosc, brownish, turning 

 pale; stem smooth, hollow, orange-tawny, at length com- 

 pressed and lacunose ; gills thick, distant, branched, yellow or 

 dingy, naked. — Ditm. in Sturm, i. /. 30. 



In woods. Not uncommon. Remarkable for the bright 

 tint of the stem. C. lutescens, Fr., Bull. t. 473. f. 3, has a 

 paler yellow stem, and the gills less divided ; the pileus, 

 moreover, is merely umlnlicate. It is scarcely to be deemed 

 a species. It occurs in the same localities with C. tabceformis. 



6. C. infundibuliformis, Fr. ; pileus submembranaceous, 

 umbilicate, then funnel-shaped, floccoso-rugose, dingy-yellow, 

 turning pale; stem fistulose, even, smooth, yellow; gills thick, 

 distant, dichotomous, yellow or cinereous, at length pruinosc. 

 —Sow. t. 47. 



In woods. Not uncommon, but difficult to distinguish 

 from the last. 



7. C. einereus, Fr. ; pileus subnicmbranaceous, infundibu- 

 liform, pervious to the base, villoso-squamulosc, dingy-black. 



