27-i OUTLINES OF BRITISH FUNGOLOGV. 



a soft cottony substance, at first thin, mcmljranaceous, then 

 thicker ; circumference fibrillose. 



On dead larch, etc. Rare. Abundant in Sherwood Forest. 

 This is C miniatum, Berk , whose differences vanish on tlie 

 discovery of abundant specimens. Sow. t. 291 is P/debia 

 radiata. 



8. C. STilfureum, Fr. ; effused, fibrilloso-byssoid, bright 

 sulphur-coloured ; hymcnium when perfect thick, waxy, some- 

 what tawny, rimose when dry. 



On fallen sticks, etc. Not uncommon, but seldom perfect. 



9. C. cseruleum, i'V. ; roundish, then effused, adnate, at 

 first bright blue ; circumference byssoid, of the same colour, 

 whitish ; hymeniura soft, waxy, papillose, at length smooth. 

 —Huss. i. /. 20. 



Ou rails, dead w ood, etc. Extremely common. Said to be 

 luminous in the dark. 



10. C. atro-virens, Fr. ; irregularly effused, black-green, of 

 the same colour beneath, downy, as well as the circumference. 



On sticks, in woods. Not common. Like Fries, I have 

 never found a perfect hymenium. 



11. C. lactescens, B.; agglutinate, soft, waxy, undulated, 

 flesh-coloured, milky ; margin shortly byssoid, at length 

 cracked ; interstices silky. 



On decayed Avood of willows, etc. Not uncommon. Smell 

 like that of Ladurius quietus. ]\Iilk white, watery. Hyme- 

 nium flesh-coloured or pale salmon-coloured. 



** Circumference not distinctly byssoid, etc. ; or if so, only at the 

 very first. 



12. C. calceum, Fr. ; effused, agglutinate, waxy, quite 

 smooth, white ; circumference like the rest of the plant ; hy- 

 menium even, smooth, cracked when dry. 



