long, rarely thicker than a pipe-stem. Grows in large clusters on ground 
or on decaying wood. May to November. Edible. Var. granularis Pk. 
Rep. 47 142. Pileus sprinkled with granules or furfuraceous scales. 
C. stercorarius Fr. Ep. 251. Pileus ovate then campanulate, margin 
striate, densely covered with white glistening meal, 2.5-3 cm - high and 
broad; gills adnexed ; spores 14-15 X 8 |x; stipe 7-12 cm. long, white, 
minutely mealy at first, hollow. On dung, manured ground &c. 
Section VI. Volva, ring, and veil entirely absent ’ flesh exceedingly thin ’ 
pileus becoming split along the lines of the gills ‘ scurfy or glabrous. 
A. Pileus more or less scurfy. — a. Gills attached to the stipe. 
C. apiculatus Pk. Bull, Torrey Bot. Club. 22: 206. Pileus membrana¬ 
ceous, campanulate or deeply convex, acute or apiculate, furfuraceous, 
plicate-striate to the disk, grayish; gills few, subdistant, reaching the 
stipe, black; stipe filiform, glabrous, white; spores elliptical, black, 7.5 X 
4 Pileus about 3" broad, stipe 11.5' long, scarcely .5" thick. 
C. aquatilis , Pk. Rep. N. Y. St. Mus. Nat. His. 27 : 96, PI. 1, f. 26-28- 
Pileus membranaceous, campanulate, sulcate-plicate almost to apex, fur¬ 
furaceous, yellowish-brown; gills subdistant, reaching the stipe, brown¬ 
ish, then black; stipe slender, equal, hollow, furfuraceous, whitish; 
spores elliptical, 10.25 X 7-5 |x. On sticks and twigs partly submerged, or 
lying in wet, mossy places. Young plant more yellow than the mature. 
C. velox Godey, in Gill. Champ. Fr. Hym. 614 with fig. Pileus obovate. 
striate, then grooved, scurfy between the ribs, disk also grayish and scurfy, 
3-4 mm. across; gills close to the stipe; stipe 1.5-3 cm. long, covered with 
delicate white floccose down, base with radiating fibrils. On cow dung. 
C. ephemerus Fr. Ep. 252. Pileus across, very thin, ovate then 
campanulate, finally expanded and splitting, radiato-sulcate, at first slight¬ 
ly furfuraceous, disk elevated, even, rufescent; gills slightly attached, 
linear, white then brownish, then blackish; stipe i.f-2.f high, 1" or 
more thick, equal, glabrous, pellucid, hollow, whitish; spores 16-17 X 
9-10 (x. On dung-hills, manured ground, etc. Appears almost glabrous, 
but under lens seen to be distinctly scurfy. Extremely fugacious. 
C. mycenopsis Karst. Symb. Myc. Fenn. 8:8. Pileus campanulate, then 
expanded, sulcate, sooty-gray, the livid disk prominent, scurfy at first, 
soon naked, 3-7 cm. across; gills adnate, purple, then brown; spores 
7-8 X 4 ja; stipe up to 14 cm. long, glabrous (apex slightly flocculose), 
striate upwards, white, hollow. In meadows. 
C. Berheleyi, Mont. Syl. 131. Pileus cylindrical, ovate then campanulate, 
delicately striate, scurfy, yellowish or grayish-brown, then blackish, 3.5 cm. 
high, 5 cm. broad; gills adnexed, very narrow; stipe up to 15 cm. long, 
cartilaginous, variegated with yellowish-green and rufous, hollow, gla¬ 
brous, base thickened. On rotten wood. 
b. Gills free. 
C. sulfhureus McClatchie, Proc. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1:381. Pileus 
oblong-campanulate, becoming expanded with revolute margins, grayish 
or yellowish-brown, finely striate, villous, 20-35 mm. high before expan¬ 
sion; gills free, linear, 1-2 mm. broad, with sulphureous margins; spores 
elliptical, 8 X 15—18 p.; stipe clothed with yellowish cobweb-like hairs 
antenuate upwards, hollow, 50-75 mm. long, 3-4 mm. thick. Among 
decaying leaves under trees. 
C. Wrightii B. & C. Cent. N. A. F. n. 84. Pileus 3 /, ~4 // broad, at first 
oval, then flat and expanded, radiato-striate, glaucous-gray with small 
brown chaffy specks; stipe 2' high, whitish, smooth, pellucid, fistulose, 
attached by a little down at the base ; gills moderately distant, narrow, 
free, dark-gray ; spores subcymbiform, 10 p.. 
C. radiaius Fr. Ep. 251. Pileus 2"-f across, exceedingly delicate and 
ephemeral, cylindrical, then campanulate becoming plane, at first covered 
