CLASSIFICATION OP AGARK 

 w hitish or pale grayish brown, <li-u da rker, \nnati lit fibrillost . fibrils 



more dense mi ilisk. the lliin margin ;il length ^|»litlin^ r . FLESH 



thin. GILLS adnate, rather narrow, close, sometimes veiny, \\hit<-. 

 STEM '■'•'> cm. Long, 2 mm. thick, rather Bhort, equal, glabrous, bol 

 low, often curved, easily splitting, concolor <>r whitish. SPOKES 

 subglobose, 5-6 micr. ODOB and TASTE mild. 



Caespitose. <>n decaying wood and logs, in frondose and mixed 

 woods, especially in the oorth. Ann Arbor, Marquette, Houghton. 

 Augusl < October. I afrequenl . 



The "abundanl Collybia" usually grows in profusion when 



it occurs, h is very Bimilar in general appearance to Collybia 

 familia, inn is usually smaller and Bhorter-stemmed ; its pileua baa 

 a slight umbilicus; ii Is not bygrophanous, and when dried usually 

 becomes rufescent, a Bpecial characteristic of the stem. 



814. Collybia succinea Fr. 



Epicrisis, L836. 



Illustrations: Pries, [cones, PL 65, Fig. ; '-. 

 Cooke, III.. PL LSI. 



PILEUS L-3 cm. broad, convex-campanulate, Bubexpanded, smoky 

 rufous-brown, becoming paler, moist, glabrous, even, firm al Qcsl 

 then flexible. FLESB becoming whitish, rather thin. <;iu,s 

 adnexed, broad, close to subdistant, thickish, ventricose, whitish, 

 edge minutely serrulate. STEM 2-3 cm. long, 1.5-3 nun. thick, 

 equal, glabrous, stuffed then hollow, even, cartilaginous, tough, 

 pruinose a1 apex, dark rufous-broivn. SPORES oblong, obtn 

 \ ::::..") micr., white. CYSTIDIA ventricose, acuminate-pointed 

 above, 15s 12 micr., abundanl on edge of gills, few elsewhi 

 TASTE and < >i>< >B Farinaceous. 



Gregarious. On the ground in hemlock-beech woods. Ne* Rich 

 mond. September. Infrequent. 



The colors are well represented l>\ the illustrations referred t<>. 

 The farinaceous odor is nol mentioned bj the European ant ho 

 inn in other respects the characters of our plants are apparently 

 the same as of those of Europe. 



