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Stem stuffed, soft, equal, fibrillose-striate, othervvisi 

 naked or obsoletely pruinose at the apex, whitish, shorl 

 bluntly rooted at the base. 



Spores 19 x 13 /*. Pileus 7 to LO cm. broad; stem 

 cm. long, 1.5 cm. or more thick. 



On and about the base of stumps; no1 rare. The plan! 

 slightly glutinous when moist. A specimen found in woods ai 

 bombard, June, 1900, had the pileus Hi cm. broad, stem 3 cm. 

 thick, and Lamellae 18 mm. broad. The spores are very broadly 

 elliptical, 7.5 to 10 p., much smaller than the measurements 

 by Worthington G. Smith, from the European plant. 



Collybia maculata A. & S. 



Pileus fleshy, firm, convex or nearly plain', even, glabroi 

 white or whitish, sometimes variegated with reddish spots 

 stains; flesh white. 



Lamella? narrow, crowded, adnexed, sometimes nearly or 

 quite free, white or whitish. 



Stem generally stout, firm, equal or slightly swollen in the 

 middle, striate, white. 



Spores subglobose, 4 to 6 /x. ; pileus 5 to 10 cm. broad; 

 "> to 10 cm. long, 6 to 12 mm. thick. 



Moist woods. Millers, Indiana, June. Stem occasionally 1"> 

 cm. long. Our plants show sordid (not reddish) stains in dry 

 In the fresh specimens no stains were noticed. 



Collybia velutipes Curt. 



Pileus fleshy, rather thin, convex or nearly plane, «■ 

 glabrous, viscid^ reddish-yellow or tawny, the thin marj 

 wavy and irregular. 



Lamellae broad, subdistant, rounded behind, slightly adi 

 whitish or yellowish. 



Stem firm, externally cartilaginous, stuffed or hollow, brown 

 or tawny-brown, densely velvety-hairy. 



Spores narrowly elliptical or oblong-elliptical, < .5 to 9 \ I 

 Pileus 2.5 to 7 cm. broad; stem 2.5 to 9 cm. long, : 

 thick. 



On and about decaying trunks and stumps, often di 

 cespitosc. A clump collected by Will McDonald, in a 

 yard at Wheaton, in November, 1899, contained over a 

 pilei. The lamellae are pal id or cream-color, becoming yell 

 with age. Substance of the stem wholly fibrous, and. with i 

 flesh of the pileus pure white within. 



A specimen found on a stump of Salix; near Wheal 

 fusiform radicating prolongation of the stem, extending 

 ground 5 cm. The species is capable of withstanding low 

 peratures, and is often collected in November and Decern! 

 when snow is on the ground. It is edible. 



Collybia confiuens Pers. 



Pileus thin, tough, flaccid, convex then nearly plane, obi 



