i LASSIFICATION OF AGARK 



hious, colored like pileus. SPORES Bubglobose or broadl} ellipti- 

 cal, 4-5 micr." 



Scattered or Bubcaespitose. < >u decaying w I. especially of pine, 



Negaunee, Ww Richmond, Greenville (Longyear). June-Septem- 

 ber. Rare. 



An unidentified Michigan plant approaches this rather closely. 

 h has the Bame colors, etc., bu1 differs in Its flesh} fibrous, — • » I i « I 

 Btem and bitterish taste. The spores are white. 



***OillS nih 8Ci >il. 

 805. Collybia acervata I r. I.nii;; 



Sy8t. Myc, L821. 



[llustrations : Pries, [cones, PI. 64, Pig. 2. 

 (Jillet. Champignons de Prance, No. 147. 

 Cooke, 111.. PI. 267. 

 Bard, Mushrooms, Pig. 87, p. 117. 

 Peck, X. V. State Mus. Bull. 7:». PL 84, L904. 



"PILEUS 2-5 cm. broad, convex, becoming expanded or nearly 

 plane, glabrous, hygrophanous, pale tan color or incarnate red and 

 sometimes nhsmrelv striatulate on the margin when moist, whitish 



after tl sea] i' the moisture. GILLS close, rounded behind, 



Blightly adnexed or free, whitish, or slightly tinged pink. STEM 

 5-7.5 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick, equal, hollow, Blender, rigid but brittle, 

 glabrous except the white-tomentose base, reddish-brown or pur- 

 plish-brown. SPORES elliptic, G-7.5* l micr., white." 



Caespitose. On decaying prostrate trunks and leaves, or on half- 

 buried rotten wood. Augusi September. Ann Arbor. Infrequent 



The description is obtained from Peck, N. > State Mus. BuU. 

 7"> i . .is my own notes are incomplete. This Bpe< ies maj !»• merely an 

 ecological variety "t C. dryophilo. Like Bard, I have found it In 

 Localities formerly occupied by Baw-mills. The u'ilK become Blight 

 lv rufescent in age. Our plant does not seem t«> agree w .11 with 

 the European descriptions. 



