410 ENUMERATION CF FUNGI. 
broad in the centre decurrent, and extremely narrow at the 
base, where they are mere lines; interstices poroso-rugose. 
Sporophores oblong, swollen above; spicules rather long; 
spores subglobose. 
This species has the habit of Ag. stipitarius and gramini- 
cola, It is not, however, closely allied to the former, though 
belonging apparently to the same section of the sub-genus 
Collybia. It is rather rigid when dry, and the gills have a 
very peculiar appearance, like that of the hymenium of some 
Merulii, as if, when fresh, they were inclined to be gelatinous. 
3. Ag. (Collybia) omotrichus, n. s.; pileo hemispherico 
demum plano subcarnoso pilis brevibus radiantibus mollibus 
fasciculatis vestito, glabrescente ; stipite gracili velutino co- 
riaceo; lamellis distantibus leviter adnexis crassiusculis. 
Zeyher, n. 111. 
Upon the hard stems of decayed grasses. Uitenhage. De- 
cember. 
Pileus 3 of an inch broad, at first rising from the matrix 
like a little stemless velvety ball, at length expanded and 
nearly plane, papillate, more or less zoned, subcarnose, 
clothed with short soft radiating somewhat fasciculate hairs, 
which almost vanish in old specimens. Stem 3-4 of an inch 
high, $ of a line thick, straight, velvety, solid, coriaceous, 
consisting of white, shining, silky fibres. Gills distant, 
slightly ventricose, narrow behind, ochraceous, slightly ad- 
nexed. 
Extremely like 4g. stipitarius, var. graminicola, of which 
it has: precisely the habit, but it is certainly distinct, being 
far more fleshy, and the pubescence has a very different 
appearance. The colour of the pileus and stem, in the dry 
plant, is a pallid fawn-colour. I have not been able to find 
spores, but believe that they are white, though the gills are 
of a dirty ochre. It resembles also very closely Ag. gramini- 
cola, Nees, a ferruginous seeded species, which I know only 
from Nees’ and Krombholz’s figures. I have never, how- 
ever, seen any dark-seeded Agaric with a stem of a similar 
texture. 
