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[=Coemansii=, Rab. P. campan. tomentose, whitish, edge incurved; g.

fold-like, somewhat forked, cinnamon.

ARRHENIA, Fr.

* _Stem lateral._

[=auriscalpium=, Fr. Brown. P. thin, convex, glabrous; g. vein-like, few, distant, simple; s. exactly lateral, straight, downy.

Resembling _Hyduum auriscalpium_ in form, but smaller.

** _Pileus sessile._

[=tenella=, Fr. P. .5-1 cm. effuso-reflexed, thin, soft, blackish, becoming lobed; g. vein-like, simple, with shorter ones, dark.

[=cupularis=, Fr. P. 2-3 mm. resupinate, soft, orbicular, outside even, downy, grey; g. vein-like, simple, radiating from centre.

Resembles young condition of _Pleurotus applicatus_.

[=fimicola=, Bagl. P. resupinate, thin, concavo-patellate, flesh-colour, with a byssoid border; veins very slight, distant.

NYCTALIS, Fr.

A. SPELEAE. _Gills crowded, more or less coalescent. Very doubtful, probably morbid forms of Agarics._

[=verpoides=, Fr. P. campan. obtuse, glabrous, brown; g. very thick, coalescent; s. equal, rigid, striate, glabrous.

[=cryptarum=, Secr. Foetid. P. conico-deformed, brown; g. adnexed, undulate, subcoalescent, flocculose, fleshy-grey; s. unequal, flexuose, h.o.a.ry-fibrillose.

[=ca.n.a.liculata=, Pers. P. pallid white, oblique, sub.u.mbil. almost glabrous; g. crowded, distinct, almost simple, edge slightly ca.n.a.liculate; s. solid, subundulate, naked.

=caliginosa=, W. G. Sm. P. sub.u.mb. edge incurved, greyish, white and silky when dry, 1 cm.; g. subdecur. thick, narrow, branched, grey; s.

3-5 cm. often inflated, whitish, silky, hollow, rusty inside; sp. 5 3.

B. PARASITAE. _Gills distinct from each other, distant. Growing on decaying fungi._

[=nauseosa=, Weinm. Smell nauseous. P. fleshy, globose then hemisph.

ochraceous, pulverulent, edge involute; g. distant, forked, pallid; s.

fistulose, thick, obliquely sulcate and twisted, pallid.

Larger than _N. asterophora_.

=asterophora=, Fr. P. 1-1.5 cm. conical then hemispher. fawn, mealy with large stellate conidia; g. adnate, distant, rather forked, dingy; s.

1-1.5 cm. whitish pruinose then brownish, twisted; sp. 3 2.

=parasitica=, Fr. P. 1-2 cm. conical then exp. irreg. with grey meal formed of large, elliptical, smooth conidia; g. adnate, thick, distant, then forked and anastomosing, dusky; s. 2-6 cm. whitish, floccosely downy; sp. 5 3.5.

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