CLASSIFICATION OP AGARK :::, 



Section V. Uurasmioidae. Plants partially or wholly revivi 

 (not truly putrescent). Hygrophanous or dry. Stem pulverulent, 

 floccose, 6-brillose hair> or fl< liairj . 



The species placed under ihi^ new section have anomalous char 

 actera which allj them equally with the genus Maraamiua. in I 

 this section and the section Collybiae under Marasmius contain 

 Bpecies which intergrade between the two genera, a ml hard and 

 f.-isi lines of separation are impracticable. Mara 

 might be included here, ;i> its flesh is more like Collybia than Mu 

 mius. C. confluen8 is an equally g I Marasmius. 



826. Collybia confluens l>. Edibi i 



Syst. Mvc. L821. 



I Uus1 i-.-i i ions : Bard, Mushrooms, Pig. 84, p. ill. 1908. 

 Cooke, Ml.. PL L50. 

 Gillet, Champignons de Prance, No. 153. 



PILEUS 2-5 cm. broad, tough, flaccid, convex-plane, obtuse, hy- 

 grophanous, reddish-brown (moist), grayish flesh-colored to whitish 

 (dry), subumbonate, striatulate when moist. FLESH rather thin 

 toward stem, almosl as thick as width of gills, white. GILLfl t- 

 narrow, very croicded, whitish. STEM 5-10 cm. (or more) long, 

 2-5 mm. thick, subequal, hollow and often compressed, subcartila 

 ginous, tough, reddish under the dense, whitish pubt even, 



sometimes grooved, often joined a1 base bj a floccose myceliod web 

 which spreads among the leaves on which it grows. SPOR - 

 minute, narrowly pip-shaped, 1-6x3-4 tnicr., white. CYSTIDIA 

 none. STERILE CELLS on edge of gills Bmall. ODOR and 

 TASTE mild or slightly unpleasant. 



Cohen-nt in tufts, or gregarious in troops or part rings Imoi g 

 fallen leaves on the ground. Throughout the State. July-Octol 

 < !ommon. 



The colors of the young and old pilei \:n iderably; when 



young they may be almosl bay-red, later becoming reddish browi 

 grayish or white. The stem is rather long in proportion t.> the 

 pih'iis. '!'li«- species is most common in frondose woods, "I" 

 mvcelium forms ;i whitish nrnuM over and among the fall< 



