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thick, and fold-like, margin obtuse and paler. Pileus glabrous 

 or cracked into squamules. (Fries.) 



Var. devexus, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 158; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 1160a. 



Differs from the type in the bent down margin of tbe 

 pileus, stuffed stem, and unbranched grey gills ; spores 



On scorcbed ground. 



Cooke's figures sbow tbe pileus upturned at tbe margin. 



II. PLEUEOPUS. 



Cantharellus muscigenus. Fr. 



Pileus ^— ^ in. across, somewbat membranaceous, flaccid, 

 more or less spatbulate, often depressed bebind, horizontal, 

 smooth, usually zoned, yellowish-brown or fuscous, then 

 greyish-white when old and dry ; gills radiating, distant, 

 branched, thick, narrow, coloured like the pileus ; stem 1-2 

 lines long, slender, lateral, downy at the base. 



Cantharellus muscigenus, Fries, Syst. Myc, i. p, 323 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 342 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1115a. 



On the larger mosses, Sijpnum, &c. 



Distinguished from G. glaucus by its habitat, and brownish 

 oolour when moist. 



Agreeing with C. retjrugus in growing on mosses, but 

 known by the true lateral stem and thick gills. 



Cantharellus glaucus. Batsch. 



Entirely grey ; pileus up to ^ iu. across, membranaceous, 

 strap-shaped or flabellate, ascending, silky, not zoned ; gills 

 radiating from the point of attachment of the stem, distant, 

 narrow, thick, forked ; stem lateral, expanding into the 

 pileus, about 1 line long, slightly pruinose ; spores elliptical, 

 smooth, 5x3/*. 



Cantharellug glaucus, Cke., Illustr., pi. 1115b; Cke,, Hdbk., 

 p. 343. 



On the ground. 



Distinguished from 0. muscigenus, the only other British 

 species with a lateral stem, by growing on the ground, and 

 by being altogether grey in colour. 



