Stem: slender, white above a narrow, easily lost ring which is composed of floccose, ochraceous yellow granules which also clothe the lower part of the stem. Gills: adnate, cream-coloured and crowded. Flesh: yellowish with a strong smell of new-mown hay. Spore-print: white. Spores: small to medium sized, hyaline under the microscope, smooth, ellipsoid, 5-7 × 3-4 µm and becoming blue-grey when mounted in solutions containing iodine. Marginal and facial cystidia: absent. _Habitat_ & _Distribution_: Frequently found amongst grass on heaths, in hill-pastures and in woodlands from summer to autumn. _General Information_: This fungus is recognised by the gill-attachment and the powdery-scurfy cap formed by the breaking up of an enveloping veil composed of thick-walled, rounded cells, similar to those on the surface of the stem. This fungus was formerly placed in the genus _Lepiota_ because of the ring but the veil in _Cystoderma amianthinum_ is formed in quite a different way to the ring in the true parasol mushrooms. The gills are also adnate and not free as in the true species of _Lepiota_ (see p. 112). _C. carcharias_ (Secretan) Fayod is found under similar conditions, but is white or flesh-coloured. _C. cinnabarinum_ (Secretan) Fayod is also found in short grass and moss, but has a cinnabar-red, floccose cap and _C. granulosum_ (Fries) Fayod is yellowish brown with non-amyloid spores and adnexed gills. Many authorities prefer to connect this small group of closely related species more to members of the _Tricholomataceae_ (i.e. the family which contains the Wood Blewits (p. 131), _Mycena_ (p. 68, etc.) than to the parasol mushrooms--_Lepiota_ (p. 112). _Illustrations_: Hvass 23; LH 129; NB 103⁷; WD 8⁴. [Illustration: Plate 29. Fleshy fungi: Spores white and borne on gills] ~Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca~ (Fries) Maire False chanterelle _Cap_: width 25-70 mm. _Stem_: width 4-7 mm; length 25-50 mm. _Description_: Cap: bright orange-yellow or apricot, fleshy, soft, depressed at centre and with wavy, incurved, slightly downy margin. Stem: yellow at apex, rich red-brown or orange about the middle and sometimes dark brown at the very base. Gills: decurrent, deep orange, thin, crowded, repeatedly forked and easily separable from the cap-tissue. Flesh: yellowish, pale in the cap, darker in the stem. Spore-print: white. Spores: medium sized, hyaline under the microscope, ellipsoid or pip-shaped, smooth, 7-8 × 4 µm and red-brown when mounted in solutions of iodine. Marginal and facial cystidia: absent. _Habitat_ & _Distribution_: Common in woodlands, particularly with pines, and on heaths or in rough hill-pastures.