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warty, paler but here and there towards the margin marked 

 with dark patches as if burnt. Gills pale umber, free, or 

 only apparently adnate from the change of form of the 

 pileus, sometimes rounded behind and then separating from 

 the stem, as represented by Bnlliard, t. 106, they have a 

 rather watery a})pearance, though dry, like that of a piece 

 of half-dry parchment, connected hj veins, distant. tSfem 

 2—6 in. long, 7^;-l in. thick, veiitricose, rooting, paler than 

 the pileus, maiked towards the base with little dark specks, 

 striate longitudin illy, not truly though apparently fibrillose,. 

 often cracked longitudinally and transversel}", the transverse 

 cracks extending only through the cartilaginous coat; 

 substance within loose and fibrous, the fibres crisped, at 

 length hollow. Taste agreeable. (Berk.) 



CoUybia lancipes. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, flesh thick, firm, not watery ; convex 

 then expanded, umbonate, radiately wrinkled from the 

 umbo, dry, glabrous, pale flesh-colour, becoming pullid,. 

 margin striate ; gills adnexed, emarginate, very broad 

 behind, distant, thick, firm, up to ^ in. broad, connected by 

 veins, tinged flesh-colour; stem stout, remarkably carti- 

 laginous externally, almost solid, but when adult sometimes 

 stuffed with crisj), twisted filaments, striate, glabrous or 

 indistinctlv fibrillose, gradually attenuated towards the 

 base, whitish with a flesh-coloured tinge, base rooting, 

 downy. 



Agaricus (Colhjhia) lancipes, Fries, Epicr., p. 83. 



On the ground. 



Scattered, rarely clustered; every part rigid and firm. 

 Allied to G. fusipes, but differing in the radiately rugose 

 pileus and in being solitary. 



** Gills crowded, narrow. 



Collybia maculata. A. & S. 

 Pileus 2-5 in. across, flesh thick, firm, at first white, then 

 more or less spotted with reddish-brown, or sometimes 

 altogether rufest.-ent ; convex then plane, obtuse, sometimes 

 wavy, even, gl tbrous, whitish, becoming more or less stained 

 or spotted with reddish-brown; margin thin, incurved at 

 first, almost naked, gills emarginate, almost or quite free. 



