CLASSIFICATION OF AGARK 781 



••**<; ill* lilaceous. 

 807. Collybia myriadophylla I'k. 



N. Y. State Mus. Rep. 25, L873. 



[llustration : Hard, Mushrooms, Fig. 85, p. L15, 1908 



PILEUS L. 5-2.5 cm. broad, soon plane or depressed, tlexih 

 hygrophanous, glabrous, even, sometimes umbilicate or mammil 

 ilnl! umber-brown with lilac tinge (moist), ochraceous-bufl (di 

 FLESH verj thin. GILLS slightly adnexed, very crowded, nam 

 linear, thickish, <lurk lilac, edge entire. STEM 2-3 cm. long, l 1.5 

 mm. thick, slender, equal, terete or compressed, stuffed bj ;i white 

 pith, then hollow, dull lilac to reddish-brown, subglabrous, some- 

 times densely silky-pruinate. SPORES very minute, 3-4x2 micr., 

 elliptic-oval. CYSTIDIA none. 



Gregarious. <>n mossj hemlock or tamarack logs <>r wood. July 

 to October. Ann Arbor (on tamarack), Nero Richmond, South 

 Haven, Baj View and Houghton. Infrequent. 



A very distinct little Collybia, sometimes lilac-tinged through- 

 out ; ilii>- color persists longer on the uills than elsewhere. The i:iiu 

 are often glaucous, and on drying become reddish brown. The 

 si fin is sometimes attenuated below and rooting; al tiim-v it i-* 

 entirely white-pruinose with a tuff of lilaceous strigose hairs at 

 the base. The species seems to !>•• limited to coniferous w Is. 



*****<;il!s cinerasceni or r *t. 



808. Collybia atrata li . 



Syst .M.vr.. L821. 



Illustrations: Fries, l<- s, PI. 70, Fig. 1. 



Cooke, [11., PI. L55. 



Gillet, Champignons de France, No. 148 



Hard, Mushrooms, Fig. 83, p. i L3, 1908 



"PILEUS l 2.5 cm. broad, tough, piano-depressed, never papillal 

 convex toward margin, verj glabrous, orbicular, umbilical 

 pitch-black and shining (moist), fuscous (dry). FLESB rather 

 thick, firm. GILLS adnate, scarcely decurrent, at I 

 then straight, rather broad, subdistant, whitish to gray, then I 



