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as well as the hollow stem ; gills thick, distunt, cinereous. — 

 Kromb. t. 45. /. 12; Bolt. t. SI. 



In woods. Rare. Not found since the days of Bolton. 



8. C. muscigenus, Fr. ; pileus subraembranaceous, spa- 

 thulate, horizontal, smooth, zoned, brown, then cinereous- 

 white ; stem even, lateral, villous at the base ; gills swollen, 

 distant, branched, of the same colour. — Bull. t. 288, 498./. 1. 



On the larger mosses. Not common. Berwick, Dr. John- 

 ston, on Tortula ruralis. Bristol, C. E. Broome. 



9. C. retirugus, Fr. ; thin - membranaceous, expanded, 

 lobed, curved, fixed behind with little threads, pale cinereous- 

 white ; gills radiating from the centre, very delicate, reticu- 

 late. (Plate 11, fig. 2.) 



On mosses, in swamps. King's ClifFe, in tolerable abun- 

 dance. 



10. C. lobatus, Fr. ; membranaceous, sessile, horizontal, 

 lobed, brown ; gills fold-like, distinct, banded, diverging. — 

 Bolt. t. 177. 



On mosses, in swamps. Not common. Very nearly allied 

 to the last. 



11. NYCTALIS, Fr. 



Hymenophorura confluent with the stem and trama. Gills 

 fleshy, juicy, or subgelatinous, oljtusc, unequal. Often para- 

 sitic on other Fungi. Veil universal. 



1 . N. asterophora, Fr. ; pileus rather fleshy, hemispheri- 

 cal, breaking up into a pulverulent fawn-coloiircd stratum ; 

 stem stuffbd, pruinose, white, then brownish, twisted ; gills 

 adnate, distant, somewhat forked, straight, dingy. — D'ltm. in 

 Sturm, I. 26. 



On dead dried Agarics. Common. The meal which covers 

 the pileus when full-grown consists of stellate bodies, which 



