1S4 FUNGUS-FLOE A. 



On putrid Agarics, and on the ground. 



In all probability a monstrous or abnormal form of some 

 species, bearing a raceme of minute secondary stems, with, 

 minute imperfect pilei on the main stem. 



III. LAEYIPEDES. 



* Gills hroad, lax, usually more or less distant, 



Collybia collina. Scop. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thin, white ; campanulate then 

 expanded, becoming flattened and umbonate, glabrous, rather 

 viscid when moist, also slightly striate ; even and shining 

 when dry ; brown or tan-colour, becoming pale ; gills 

 adnexed when young, then free, rather distant, broad, lax, 

 white then pallid ; stem -^-4 in. long, 2-3 lines thick, hollow, 

 rather fragile, almost equal or slightly thinner upwards, 

 even, glabrous, pallid-wliite, base downy. 



Agaricus colliniis, Scopoli, Carn., p. 132 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 68 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 205. 



In grassy places. 



Usually gregarious. With the habit of a Mycena, but the 

 margin incurved at first. Somewhat resembling a small 

 form of G. radicata, but differing in the abrupt, and not 

 rooting base of stem. 



Collybia thelephora. Cke. & Mass. 



Pileus §-l| in. across, flesh rather thin ; campanulate, lax, 

 with a small but acute papillate umbo, margin incurved at 

 first, then expanded and wavy, glabrous, slightly striate, 

 pale dingy ocliraceous, the disc darker; gills adnate, Ih line 

 broad, narrower in front, thin, rather crowded, whitish; 

 stem 3—4 in. long, 1—1^ line thick, equal, hollow, glabrous, 

 even, base purplish-brown, paler upwards; spores elliptical, 

 9 X 7 /x. 



Agaricus (Collijbia^ tJieleplwrus, Cke. & Massee, Grevillea, 

 xviii. p. 51 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1167. 



lu partly dried up Spliagnum bogs. 



Gregarious. Inodorous. The pilens is sometimes slightly 

 depressed round the umbo. The habit is that of a Mycena, 



