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as well as the hollow stem; gills thick, distant, cinereous.—Kromb. t. 45. /. 12; Bolt. t. 34.

In woods. Rare. Not found since the days of Bolton.

8. C. museigenus, Fr.; pileus submembranaceous, spa-thulate, horizontal, smooth, zoned, brown, then cinereous-white ; stem even, lateral, villous at the base; gills swollen,distant, branched, of the same colour.— Bull. t. 288, 498. /. 1.

On the larger mosses. Not common. Berwick, Dr. John-ston, on Tor tula ruralis. Bristol, C. E. Broome.

9. C. retirugus, Fr.; thin - membranaceous, expanded,lobed, curved, fixed behind with little threads, pale cinereous-white ; gills radiating from the centre, very delicate, reticu-late. (Plate 14, fig. 2.)

On mosses, in swamps. King’s Clilfe, in tolerable abun-dance.

10. C. lobatus, Fr.; membranaceous, sessile, horizontal,lobed, brown; gills fold-like, distinct, banded, diverging.—Bolt. t. 1 77.

On mosses, in swamps. Not common. Very nearly alliedto the last.

11. NYCTALIS, Fr.

Hymenophorura confluent with the stem and trama. Gillsfleshy, juicy, or subgelatinous, obtuse, unequal. Often para-sitic on other Fungi. Veil universal.

1. N. asterophora, Fr.; pileus rather fleshy, hemispheri-cal, breaking up into a pulverulent fawn-coloured stratum;stem stuffed, pruinose, white, then brownish, twisted; gillsadnate, distant, somewhat forked, straight, dingy.— Ditm. inSturm, t. 26.

On dead dried Agarics. Common. The meal which coversthe pileus when full-grown consists of stellate bodies, which