white, narrow, at length appearing like mere wrinkles ; stipe 1.5' long, 
not a line thick, white, nearly or quite smooth, hollow, attenuated upwards, 
with a cup-shaped, more or less distant, permanent ring. Spores 10-12 
X 6 p. On hot beds and on dung in fields. 
C. bulbilosus Pat. Tab. Anal. Fung. 60, fig. 658. Pileus convex, margin 
striate, incurved then expanding, gray, disk tinged yellow, covered with 
white meal, 8-io mm. across; gills gray; spores oval, 8-9 X 6-7 p.; stipe 
2-3 cm. long, slender, white, base bulbous, ring loose. On horse-dung. 
C. epkemeroides Fr. Ep. 250. Pileus cylindric-ovate, then campanulate, 
plicato-sulcate, whitish or livid, disk tinged yellow, sprinkled with super¬ 
ficial flecks, up to 1 cm. high and broad; gills free, remote; spores ellipti¬ 
cal, 11-12 X 6-7 |i, stipe 2-4 cm. long, whitish, with a free ring usually 
placed some distance up the stipe, base with a pilose bulb. On dung. 
Section III. Volva and ring absent. Veil practically absent. Pileus 
either glabrous , or 'with minute innate squamules especially near the 
apex. Usually large and closely allied to Sect. II. 
A. Gills attached to the stipe. 
C. fuscescens Fr. Ep. 244. Pileus F-1.25' across, submembranaceous, 
ovato-expanded, dull, disk rather fleshy, even or cracked into squamules, 
grayish-brown, disk rufous; gills adfixed, blackish-um'ber; stipe 4^-5 , 
long, about 3" thick, equal, fragile, hollow, subfibrillose, ring indistinct 
or absent, whitish ; spores elliptical, apiculate, 10 X 6 |x. Dead trunks, etc. 
C. insignis Pk. Rep. N. Y. St. Mus. Nat. His. 26:60. Pileus campanu¬ 
late, thin, sulcate-striate to the disk, grajdsh-brown, smooth, disk some¬ 
times cracking into small areas or scales; gills ascending, crowded; stipe 
hollow, slightly fibrillose, striate, white; spores rough, 10 X 7 |x. Plant 
4'-5' high, pileus 2'-3' broad, stipe 3" thick. About roots of trees in woods. 
C. tergiversans Fr. Ep. 247. Pileus conical, then expanded, silky, soon 
grooved, cracked up into minute squamules, rusty-brown, disk darker, 
even, 6-12 cm. broad and high; gills broadly adnate ; spores 10 X 4p; 
stipe white, equal, glabrous, apex sulcate, 10-14 cm. long. Caespitose. 
B. Gills free. 
C. focculosus Fr. Ep. 245. Pileus ovate then expanded, dirty-white, 
striate, with innate squamules, 4-7 cm. across ; gills free, narrow; spores 
10 X 7-8 p.; stipe 6-ro cm. high, white, silky, shining, hollow. Onground 
in fields, etc. Solitary or tufted. 
C. stenophyllus Mont. Syl. 132 n. 410. Gregarious, ephemeral; pileus 
ovoid then campanulate and expanded, sparsely covered with ochraceous 
scales, rufous then fuliginous, broadly umbonate, margin at length revo¬ 
lute and deeply split, striatulate, 5-7 cm. broad; stipe cartilaginous, elon¬ 
gated, hollow, naked, even, white, base incrassate; gills free, narrow, 
crowded, very thin, lurid then fuscous-black; spores fuscous, ovoid. On 
ground from decaying wood. 
C. macrosporus Pk. Rep. N. Y. St. Mus. Nat. His. 31:35. Pileus ovate, 
then expanded, rimose-striate, obscurely floccose-squamulose, white, the 
small even brownish disk squamose ; gills crowded, free, white then black; 
stipe glabrous, white, with traces of a ring near the thickened base; spores 
very large, elliptical, 20-25 X 12.5-16 jx. Caespitose, A-f high, pileus 1'- 
2' broad, stipe 1" thick. Ground in open fields. 
Section IV. Volva and ring absent; veil very evident , at least in the 
young state , in the form of a felt-lihe layer which breaks up during 
expansion into irregular patches , cottony , squamulose, fibrillose or 
mealy, but not glistening or micaceous. 
A. Veil rather thick , breaking up into more or less persistent patches. 
C. sulcatus McClatchie, Proc. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1 :38 i. Pileus ob¬ 
tusely conic then campanulate, with a thick white floccose veil that breaks 
