* * Sti^e floccose or pulverulent at first. 
C. lagopus Fr. Ep. 250. Pileus i r -2' across, cylindrical then campanu- 
late, covered with white flocculent down, becoming glabrous, striate- 
sulcate to disk, splitting, whitish, disk brownish ; gills free, at length 
remote, narrow becoming black ; stipe elongated, usually equally attenu¬ 
ated upwards, white, everywhere white-floccose, hollow, fragile; spores 
14-16 X 10-12 |x. On rotten wood, dung, etc. 
C. lagopides Karst. Hattsv. 1:535. Pileus very thin, campanulate, sul- 
cate, grayish, disk livid, ornamented with free white scales joined by hairs, 
4-7 cm. broad; gills remote, black; spores 6-8 X 5—6 p.; stipe up to 17 cm. 
high, white, floccose, hollow. On ground among poplars. 
C. fimetarius Fr. Ep. 245. Pileus i'-2' across, clavate then conico- 
expanded, soon split and revolute, grayish, apex tinged wdth brown’ 
white-floccose, then naked, rimoso-sulcate, disk even, flesh thin; gills free, 
lanceolate, about 2" broad, then linear and wavy, black ; stipe 5'-6' long, 
2 "-3" thick, hollow squamulose, base thickened and solid; spores 12-14 
X 7-8 p; cystidia large. On manure-heaps, etc. Solitary or clustered. 
Var. cinereus Fr. Pileus at first with feathery squamules, stipe short, root¬ 
ing. Paler and smaller than the typical form. Var. macrorkiza Fr. 
Pileus at first with feathery squamules, stipe short, rooting; paler and 
smaller than type. 
C. Jonesii Pk. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. 225206. Pileus submembrana- 
ceous, campanulate becoming broadly convex or expanded and split or 
re volute on margin, very blunt or truncate at the apex when young, 
covered with tawny-gray or pale-cervine floccose scales, which wholly or 
partly disappear with age, revealing the striate surface beneath; gills 
crowded, linear, free, white or whitish becoming black; stipe equal or 
slightly tapering upwards, minutely floccose, hollow, white ; spores black, 
broadly elliptical, with apiculus at one end; 7.5-9 X 6 p. Pileus i'-2' 
broad, stipe 2 l -fi long, 2 n -f thick. Fragile, sometimes caespitose. 
C. plumbeus Pk. Rep. N. Y. St. Mus. Nat. His. 29 : 42. Pileus sub- 
membranaceous, fragile, campanulate, sulcate-striate, leaden-gray, tawny 
or brownish-yellow on the small disk, sprinkled with tawny-cinereous 
hairs or flocci; gills narrow, close, free; stipe slightly tapering upwards, 
hollow, floccose, white; spores elliptical, 10 X 6 p,. Plant 3 - 5 ' high, pil¬ 
eus 1'-1.5' broad, stipe i n -2 n thick. Ground in wood roads. 
C. Veil formed of white meal or hyaline vescicles (not micaceous). 
C. filiformis B. & Br. Ann. & Mag. Nat. His. Ser. 3, 7:7. PI. 15, f. 8. 
Pileus cylindrical, gray, covered with white mealy particles, striate, 1-2 
mm. high; gills linear; spores subglobose, 5 X 4p; stipe 1-1.5 mm. 
high, extremely slender, hyaline, sprinkled with short, delicate hairs. On 
ground in woods. 
C. semilanaius Pk. Rep. N. Y. St. Mus. Nat. His. 24 : 71. PI. 4, f. 15-18. 
Pileus submembranaceous, convex, then expanded and revolute, some¬ 
times split, farinaceo-atomaceous, finely and obscurely rimose-striate, 
pale grayish-brown : gills narrow, close, free; stipe elongated, fragile, 
hollow, slightly tapering upward, white, lower half clothed with loose cot¬ 
tony flocci which rub off easily, upper half smooth or slightly farinaceous; 
spores broadly elliptical, 12.5 |x. Very fragile, 4'-6' high, pileus 8 u -i2 n 
broad, stipe 1" thick at the base. Rich ground and dung. 
Section V. Volva and ring absent. Pileus covered with glistening mica¬ 
ceous particles when young. 
C. micaceus Fr. Ep. 247. Pileus thin, at first ovate, then campanulate 
or expanded, striate, sometimes glistening with shining particles when 
3'oung, buff or tawny-yellow; gills crowded, whitish, then tinged with 
pinkish or purplish-brown, then black; stipe slender, fragile, hollow, 
white; spores elliptical, brown, 6.25-7.5 p. Pileus V-i' broad, stipe 1 '—3' 
