Agaricaceae 



Coiiybia. Often sombre, but erect, neat and handsome. Growing solitary and 

 in troops in woods, usually near stumps, if much decayed, sometimes 

 on them, or on shaded lawns and grassy places. June to October. 



Var. furfuracea Pk. Stem furfuraceous, less distinctly striate. 



Var. pusil'la Pk. Plant small. Pileus about i in. broad, passing 

 gradually into the typical form. Stem slender. 



Professor Peck says : ' 'The variety furfuracea is common and connects 

 this species with C. longipes, which has a villose stem and dry velvety 

 pileus." 49th Rep. 



Common to the United States. Edible. Curtis, according to Dr. F. 

 Peyre Porcher of Charleston, S. C., was the first to declare this edible. 



A very attractive species. The purity of its gills is especially notice- 

 able. I began eating it in iSSi, and it has continued to be a favorite. 

 The caps should be broiled or fried. They are sweet, pleasing in texture, 

 and delicately flavored. 



C. platyphyl'la Fr. Gr. broad; a leaf. (Plate XXVIII, fig. i, 

 p. 114.) Pileus 3-4 in. broad, dusky and gray then whitish, fleshy- 

 membranaceous, thin, fragile, soon flattened, obtuse, watery when moist, 

 streaked with fibrils. Stem 3-4 in. long, *2 in. thick, stuffed, soft, 

 equal, fibrilloso-striate, otherwise smooth, naked or obsoletely powdered 

 at the apex, whitish, shortly and bluntly rooted at the base. Gills ob- 

 liquely cut off behind, slightly adnexed, % in. and more broad, distant, 

 soft, white. 



Odor not remarkable. It inclines toward the Tricholomata in the 

 somewhat membranaceous cuticle of the soft stem. Fries. 



Spores i3 XI 9^ W.G.S. 



Solitary, gregarious, rarely clustered. On rotten wood, roots, ground 

 near stumps, among leaves, etc. June to October. 



Distinguished by the very broad and deeply emarginate gills, which 

 frequently slope up behind to near the cap then with a short turn down- 

 ward connect with the stem which is either stuffed or hollow, and by 

 the abundant, cord-like rooting mycelium. The gills are very broad. 

 Professor Peck says: "The species is quite variable. The pileus is 

 sometimes irregular and even eccentric, the thin margin may be slightly 

 striate, is often split and in wet weather may be upturned or revolute. 

 The lamellae are sometimes }i in. broad or more and transversely split. 

 They may be obscurely striated transversely and even veiny above with 



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