CLASSIFICATION OF AGARK 



Section IV, Vestipedes. Putrescent; Btem velvety, fibrillo 

 hairy, floocose or pruinosi . 



.818. Collybia velutipes I'r. (Edibi 



Syst. Myc, L821. 



[llnstrations : Hard, Mushrooms, PI. 15, p. 119, 1908 



Reddick, Dept. of Geol. & Nat. Resources of Indiana, Rep. •'•-'. 



L907, Fig. 1<»- 

 Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Mem. I. Pi. IT. L900 

 Cooke, III.. PI. L84. 



Gillet, Champignons de France, No. 169. 

 Murrill, Mycologia, Vol. 1. PI. ::. Fig. 6. 

 Michael, Fiihrer r. Pilzfreunde, Vol. II. No. 82. 

 Plate CLXV1 I I «>f ihis Report. 



PILEUS 2-5 cm. broad, convex expanded, viscid, obtuse, glabrous, 

 the viscid pellicle separable, tawny, reddish-yellow, usually darker 

 on disk ;iinl yellowish on margin, even, margin often irregular. 

 FLESH rather tliickish, white or tinged reddish-yellow. GILLS 

 adnexed, emarginate, broad, Bubdistanl to ••lose, whitish or yellow 

 ish. edge minutely fimbriate. BTEM 2-7 cm. long, 3-6 nun. thick, 

 firm, Btuffed, then hollow, densely velvety with short, tawny or 

 blackish brown hairs, yellow at apex, tough, short radicating. 

 SPORES oblong, smooth, 7-9x3-4 micr. (rarelj longer), white in 

 mass. CYSTIDIA none. STERILE CELLS on edge of gills, 

 slender, awl-shaped. < M >< >K ami TASTE mil. I. 



Caespitose. <*ii decaying Btumps, logs, roots, etc.. as well as on 

 hark of living trees; throughout the state Most abundant in 

 autumn, in September to December, occurring, however, o >na] 



lv any time during the year. In winter it may be found during 

 warm weather, almost surrounded l».\ ice, Beeming to revive .it 

 each warm period. As Boon ;i^ the buow is gone fresh specimens, 

 which have developed at the firsl touch of the warm spring sun 



shine, may be found. 



The viscid, reddish-yellow pileus and dart velvet] Btem are 

 characters by which it is easily known. It ma\ appear to grow from 

 the ground, bul in such cases the "root" is usually attached to dead 



woody matter below the surface. Specimens which hail no pileus, 



ami were composed only of a Btem, several feet long, were found 

 in the Calumet mine almost ;i mile beneath the surface of the 

 ground; the characteristic blackish-brown relvetj covering on the 



