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above. Tufted, on trunks, logs, etc., in ant. and win. Very 
frequent on dead gorse stems. Abundantly distinctive in 
the viscid reddish-yellow pileus and beautiful velvety stem. 
Remarkable in enduring extremes of temperature, being 
one of the few agarics that flourish in win. It sometimes 
springs from a golden byssoid mycelium. 
C. conigena (conus, a cone; giguo, to bear—from its habitat). 
Plate X. 14. 
P. J-i in., glabrous, umbonate ; often unequal and angular ; 
yellowish brick-red, pale when dry. G. slightly adnexed, 
then free, very crowded, pallid. 5 . 1-3 in., very slender, 
tough, hollow; covered at first with a white powder, then the 
colour of the pileus, ending in a very long, hairy, rooting 
base. Common in pine woods, Sept, to Dec., amongst 
leaves ; often on cones ; usually gregarious. 
C. cirrhata (cirrus, a curl—from the twisted base of the 
stem) differs chiefly in the adnate gills. It is usually smaller, 
and occurs generally on blackened decaying agarics. 
C. tuberosa (from the tuberous base of the stem). Plate 
IV. 7. 
P. up to 1 in., umbonate, almost glabrous, white. 
G. adnate, crowded, unequal, white. S. J-iJ in., white, 
rarely tinged with red. A tough, firm, gregarious species, 
which may be found in similar situations as the preceding, 
which it superficially resembles, but is easily known by the 
glabrous base of the stem, and in springing from a smooth, 
solid, yellowish-red sclerotium. 
O. esculenta (from its edible qualities). Plate VII. 12. 
P. -J-f in., convex, then plane, glabrous, even, sometimes 
slightly striate when old, ochreous tan or brownish. F> 
reddish. G. adnexed, seceding from the stem, very broad 
lax, rather distant, whitish, or tinged tan colour. S. 1-2 in. ? 
very slender, tough, straight, somewhat hollow, even, 
glabrous, yellowish-tan, ending in a long rooting base (up to 
6 in.), which is usually glabrous, but downy when growing 
