CLASSIFICATION OP AGAR I < 



This Bpecles is known h\ its odor, it- finally striate pileua and 

 by its Bhining stem, h baa the appearance and Bise ol an, 



but the pileua is Boon expanded, ii reminds one strongly of Colly 



hin fini-i i/»s, inn the latter baa numeroua cystidia and d lor, al- 

 though it growa in Bimilar places 



802. Collybia familia Pk. I 



N. Y. state Cab. Rep. 23, 1872. 



[Uustrations : N. ^. State Mus. Bull. 75, PI. 84, 1904. 

 Marshall, The Mushroom Book, PI. 16, op. p. 67, ]'.<■ 

 Plate CLXII1 of this Report. 



PILEUS 1-3.5 rni. broad, fragile, convex or bemiapherical, thi 

 expanded, obtuse, glabrous, bygrophanous, even or margin bud- 

 Btriatulate when moist, watery-brownish-buff (moist), crcati 

 to whitish (dry), margin al Length recurved ; * 1 1 ■ 1 split radially. 

 FLESH thin, concolor. <'.M>LS adnexed or almosl free, crowded, 

 narrow, whitish, edge entire. STEM I v em. long, 2-3 mm. thick, 

 slender, equal, toughish, stuffed then hollow, i;l:i i»r< >u<. rarely 

 minutely flocculose, snbconfluenl al base with mycelioid tomentum, 

 whitish. SPORES Bubglobose t" oval, 3-4.5x3 micr., feu larger, 

 smooth, white. CYSTIDIA and sterUt cells none. <>i><>i; and 

 TASTE none. 



Densely caespitose. On decaying trunk- and logs of hemlock 

 and tamarack. Huron Mountains, Marquette, Biunising, New Rich- 

 mond, Ann Arbor. August-October. Infrequent 



Because of their edibility, it i- fortunate that the abundanl elust 

 ers of from ten to twenty individuals .ire rarely attacked bj 

 gnihs; these clusters often cover a Large pari of a 1"^. The • 

 has the general habil of <'<>lii/iiiu abundans from which it i> < 1 i - r i n 

 guished by the hygrophanous flesh and bj the pileua nol being am 

 bilicate nor virgate. The European <'>>liiii>in lacerata Pr hat 

 Bimilar habil and appearance, bul it- gilla are ^.ii'l to be broad and 

 distant. Peck comparea it with C. acervata, ;> caeapitos 

 with \ei\ different colors. Tin' Ann Arboi specimens w< ind 



on tamarack log 



