Collybia AGARICACE/E 6/ 



d. Tephrophanee. 



271. C. raneida Quel. (from its rancid odour) a b c. 



P. convex, umbonate, sometimes viscid, dark umber, slate or 

 slate-grey, or slate with mid. umber. St. subfusiform, rooting, 

 sometimes deeply, colour as P. G. adnexo-free, slaty flesh- 

 colour, grey-white or almost white. 



Taste disagreeable ; odour strong and offensive when cut or broken, like rancid 

 meal. Woods, amongst trunks. Oct.-Nov. i| x 4 X J in. 



272. C. eustygia Sacc. (Stygian, from its becoming black) a. 



P. convexo-plane, subdepressed, white or white-brownish. St. 



attenuate downwards, rooting, white above, grey and punctato- 



scaly below. G. adnexo-rounded, dark grey. 

 Odour of rancid meal. On the ground. Oct. 2ix3^Xf s in. Black when dry. 



273. C. eoraeina Gill, (from its colour ; Gr. korax, a raven) a c. 



P. convexo-expanded, black to dark- or grey-umber. St. attenuate 

 upwards, not rooting, white above, brown below. G. adnate, 

 greyish or yellowish. 



Odour strong of new meal. Grassy places, fir-plantations. Nov. 

 l| X if X tg in. 



274. C. ozes Karst. (Gr. ozo, to smell) a. 



P. convexo-plane, subumbonate, grey- or clay-brown. St. slightly 

 attenuate upwards, white above, sooty-grey below. G. adnate, 

 smoky-olivaceous. 



Odour of new meal. On the ground and on pine-leaves. Feb. I X 3^ X J in. 



274a. C. mephitiea Karst. (from the offensive mephitic odour, some- 

 times, however, like new meal) a. 



P. fleshy, convex, subumbonate, hygrophanous, smooth, dry, 

 silky, greyish-ochre, becoming whitish. St. equal, enlarged 

 below, stuffed, grey, white-floccose or pruinose-velvety. G. 

 obtusely adnate, separating from stem, attenuate in front, 

 crowded, grey. Flesh yellowish. 

 Amongst fir-needles. Oct. ig X 2 X T 3 ff in. 



275. C. inolens Quel. (inolcns, scentless) a. 



P. convexo-plane, umbonate, tan, greyish or rufous. St. attenuate 

 upwards, slightly rooting at the white, strigose base. G. adfixed, 

 almost free, whitish- or ochreous-grey. 



Woods, chiefly pine. Sept.-Nov. 2j x af X in. 



276. C. plexipes Gill, (from the twisted stem ; plecto, to twist, pes, a 



foot) a b c. 



P. hemispherical, umbonate, pale umber or greyish ; mid. darker. 

 St. attenuate downwards, rooting, pale umber. G. narrowly 

 adnate, whitish-grey. Flesh pale umber. 



Odour none. Woods, beech, amongst grass; uncommon. Sept.-Nov. 

 ii X 6 X J in. 



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