CLASSIFICATION OP AGARICS 749 



PILEUS 5-20 cm. broad, sometimes large, mbhemispherical, then 



conves u " 1 ' ;l Recurved margin or aearlj plane or depressed c 



/ ""' / ' rather thick > hygrophanous, purplish-brown when moist pale 

 grayish-alutaceous when dry, unpolished, margin regular or «,n 

 upturned in age. PLESB tough, concolor or pallid. GILLS o 

 tant, thick, broad, adnatodecurrcnt, purple. STEM 5-20 cm long 



1 - cm ' thick ' trying much ,.. length and shape, sul ml to ruxi 



lon " or cylindrical, Bbrous, often rigid and hard, solid, concolor or 

 paler ' s «metimes curved or twisted. SPORES globose short 



emulate, 8-9.5 micr., white, or tinged in mass with a lilac I 



PAn l'l. rather disagreeable. 



,|), ' i, ' ,l: Ca P ■•""' s, <'"' grayish white to sordid-white -ill. 

 smoky-fuscous. 1 



Scattered or subcaespitose. 0.1 bare ground or open grassy 

 P laces ' P^erring a hard soil, often in woods, conifer, mixed or 



^ndose. Pr Isi, Royale to the southern limil of the State 



everywhere. July-October. 



Not as common as C. laccata. h. its colors and shape it appeal 

 somewhat like a purple-gilled Cortinarius, but its texture is diff, 

 "'" and h Iack * a wD- " becomes tender and of agreeable flai 



when COOked. 



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or 



Collybia 



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,n " 1 " the Greek, kollyoos, a small coin; probably because of the 

 regularity of the disk like pileus.) 



White-spored. Stem cartilaginous or with a cartilaginous cuticle 

 ,' ;'" s * 00n '■/>"»'>-'• not very fleshy, its margin at first involuti 

 •"Us adnate, adnexed or almosl free, not de current. Spores mostly 

 s,lli,n or minute, si ih. Volva and annulus lacking 



Putr escent, thincapped, mostly lignicolous mushrooms of slow 

 B 7 wth ' "" , reviving when moistened except in the section Mai 

 mi0ld eae, and, with few exceptions, of medium or small size The. 



;m ' m " s,l > attached to decayed « I, like stumps, logs, old buried 



roots, twigs, leaves, etc.; a ,,u species even occur on decaved mush- 

 roo ^ ^le others seen, to grow on naked soil. The genus is most 



C Z sel * ;i11 "" 1 '" Marasmius, but the plants differ in not revh 



; "";'' dryin « "' ,: l, •" ,,l M yeena, the involute margin of the pileus 

 \ l " , I '.' S Pesnltan < expansion at maturity, is the main distinction 

 -; this is only clearly seen in the very young stag, , often 



,|,nirn " '" mature P^n.ta to decide whether one has .1 Collybia or 



