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var. _aurorea_, Larb. P. thinner, edge striate, flesh rufescent; s.
hollow.
[=funicularis=, Karst. (= _Coll. dryophila_, var. _funicularis_, Fr.).
P. rufous then pale, even; g. sulphur then pale; s. sulcate, apex thickened, curved, yellowish white; sp. 6 2-3.
[=phaeopodia=, Fr. P. exp. even, glabrous, moist, umbo evanescent, flesh brownish, fuscous brown; g. white; s. blackish brown, thickened at both ends.
[=epipphia=, Fr. P. discoid, viscid, striate to middle; g. white, connected by veins; s. narrowed upwards, striate, white.
[=asema=, Weinm. P. thin, umb. hygr. livid, whitish when dry, flesh watery, h.o.r.n.y-grey near gills; g. crowded, entire, whitish; s. striate, livid.
=stridula=, Fr. P. soft, soon exp. even, moist, hygr. blackish then pale; g. arcuato-adnexed, white; s. fibrilloso-striate, livid brown.
Distinguished from _Trich. melaleuc.u.m_ by the dark stem.
[=pulla=, Schaeff. P. campan.-exp. obtuse, even, glabrous, hygr. purple bay then pallid fuscous; g. transversely pellucidly striate, whitish; s.
twisted, soft.
=xylophila=, Fr. P. 4-7 cm. lax, campan. then exp. gibbous, disc brownish tan, rest paler; g. adnate, very narrow, much crowded; s. 4-5 cm. subflexuous, fibrillose, whitish; 4 2.5.
Caespitose. _C. confluens_ and _C. ingrata_ differ in downy stem.
[=jurana=, Q. P. thin, fleshy-buff colour, white floccose, margin crenulate; g. whitish tinged flesh colour; s. fibrillose, whitish.
[=ramosa=, Bull. Pure white. P. exp. disc depr. slightly striate; g.
crowded; s. stuffed, subequal, rooting, glabrous.
[=strumosa=, Fr. White. P. wavy, glabrous, margin at first incurved and downy; g. crowded; s. hollow, equal, flexuous, surface crisped and wavy, striate.
[=globularis=, Weinm. White. P. globose, disc becoming plane and umbil., edge roundly incurved; g. adnate, crowded, broad; s. apex flocculose, base tomentose.
II. VESTIPEDES. _Stem thin, equal, fistulose or medullate, even, velvety, floccose or pruinose._
* _Gills broad, rather distant._
=velutipes=, Fr. 3-7 cm. exp. viscid, yellow, glabrous; g. yellowish; s.
5-10 cm. velvety, blackish brown below, rooting; sp. 7 3-3.5.
var. _rubescens_, Cke. P. tawny; g. ochraceous.
var. _lactea_, Q. P. white; g. broad; s. velvety.
=laxipes=, Fr. P. 1-2 cm. obtuse, glabrous, moist, whitish; g. distant; s. 6-12 cm. lax, stuffed,
Much smaller and slenderer than _C. velutipes_.
[=declinis=, Weinm. P. conico-campan. umb. moist, at length rivulose, pale fuscous; g. scarcely adnexed, pallid, edge floccoso-crenulate; s.
white, apex flocculoso-pulverulent.
[=Benoistii=, Boud. Soft. P. convex then plane, rather hygr. dark purple-bay then paler, edge striate, pellucid; g. nearly free, whitish then tinged purple-bay; s. bay, apex paler and scurfy, pale flocculose; flesh coloured.
=floccipes=, Fr. P. 1-2 cm. convex, umb. even, sooty brown then pale; g.
thick; s. 3-5 cm. whitish and rough with minute black points, rooting; sp. ----.
[=trochila=, Lasch. P. convex, glabrous, umbilicately depr. discoid, hyalino-striate, pallid fuscous; g. adnate, narrow; s. long, rigid, blackish brown.
=vertiruga=, Cke. P. 1-2 cm. subpulverulent, exp. dull brown or grey, radially wrinkled; g. adnate; s. 4-6 cm. tawny, minutely velvety, base strigose; sp. ----.
Differs from _C. stipitaria_ in adnate gills and dingy pileus.
=stipitaria=, Fr. P. 1-1.5 cm. exp. umb. velvety-squamulose, whitish with brown fibrils; g. ventricose; s. 2.5-5 cm. bay, fibrillose or hairy; sp. ----.
[=Sobolewski=, Weinm. P. thin, hemispher. obtusely umb.
white-pulverulent, s.h.i.+ning white then tinged rosy; g. free; s. slender, tinged fuscescent, s.h.i.+ning, white-fibrillose.
[=alumna=, Schum. White. P. thin, globose-campan. exp. glabrous, striate; g. adnate, broad; s. subulate from thickened base, downy below.
Habitat on fungi like _C. tuberosa_, from which it differs in adnate gills.
** _Gills very narrow, closely crowded._
=hariolorum=, Bull. P. 2-5 cm. exp. glabrous, dingy tan; g. white then pallid; s. 5-7 cm. narrowed upwards, rufescent, woolly-hirsute; sp. 6-7 3-4.
=confluens=, Pers. P. 2-4 cm. obtuse, flaccid, glabrous, rufescent then pallid; g. closely crowded; s. 6-12 cm. more or less compressed, rufous, everywhere with white down; sp. subgl. 7-9.
Differs from _C. hariolorum_ in densely tufted habit.
=ingrata=, Schum. P. 2-3 cm. convex, umb. even, brownish tan; g. free, pallid; s. 5-10 cm. twisted, subcompressed, with white meal above, umber and naked below, equal; sp. ----.
[=lilacea=, Q. Subtomentose, lilac; p. thin, h.o.a.ry; g. amethyst; s.
slender, base with white down.
[=lupuletora=, Weinm. P. exp. depr. even, glabrous, livid or pale tan then pallid; g. adnate, crowded, white; s. not rooting, white and pulverulently scaly above, brownish, glabrous, and narrowed below.
[=foetidissima=, Gill. Smell extremely foetid. P. convex, umbil. wavy, yellowish white; g. whitish; s. white.
[=orbicularis=, Secr. P. exp. umb. brown, disc with small viscid blackish warts; g. adnexed, crowded; s. rufescent with white meal.
[=myosura=, Fr. P. orbicular, exp. obtuse, rufous, becoming pale; g.
free, much crowded; s. rufescent, apex powdered, root long, glabrous.
=conigena=, Pers. 1-2 cm. exp. sub.u.mb. glabrous, reddish-yellow or pale; g. free, much crowded, pallid; s. 3-7 cm. pulverulent, pallid, base strigose, rooting; sp. 4-5 3.
Differs from _C. tenacella_ and _C. esculenta_ in free, crowded, narrow gills.
var. _lutea_, Vogl. P. yellow; g. densely crowded, white.
=cirrhata=, Fr. 1-1.5 cm. exp. at length umbilicate, silky, opaque, white; g. adnate; s. 2-5 cm. slender, wavy, whitish, with a downy root; sp. 4-5 2-3.