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or veiy slightly narrowed at the base, lax, wavy, fragile, 

 smoky-grey, apex powdered with white meal. 



Acjaricus {Collijhia) ozes, Fries, Epicr., p. 95; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 72. 



On pine leaves, &c. 



Allied to C. rancida, which differs in the free gills con- 

 nected by veins. 



CoUybia inolens. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh rather thick, not cartilaginous ; 

 campaniilate then convex, at length plane, and for the most 

 part broadly and obtusely umbonate, very glabrous, hygro- 

 phanous, livid when moist ; pale tan, rather silky but opaque 

 when dry ; gills adnexed, seceding and becoming almost 

 free, 1-2 lines broad, linear or slightly ventricose, greyish- 

 white ; stem 2-4 in. long, 1-2 lines thick, more when com- 

 pressed, equal, the surface wavy, livid, pale when dry; 

 rigid at first, then very soft and hollow; base with white 

 strigose down, apex with white squamules ; spores elli^Dtical, 

 7-8 X 4r-5 fjL. 



Agaricus (^Collybia) inolens. Fries, Epicr., p. 96; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 73; Cke., Illustr., pi. 154a. 



On the ground in pine woods, &c. 



Smell very weak or entirely absent, and in this respect 

 differing from C. rancida, C. ozes, and C. coracina, C. plexites 

 and C. p'otracta differ in the stem being glabrous at the 

 apex. 



Collybia plexipes. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thin ; campanulate, not ex- 

 panding, umbonate, somewhat wrinkled, slightly striate, at 

 first blackish with a whitish margin, then sooty-livid; gills 

 free, very much narrowed behind, ventricose, white then 

 glaucous; stem about 3 in. long, 1-2 lines thick, equal, 

 altogether cartilaginous, silkily fibrous and slightly striate 

 under a lens, from the presence of adpressed interwoven 

 fibrils, livid, hollow ; stem shortly and abruptly rooting, not 

 fibrillose ; spores elliptical, 8-9 X 5 /x. 



Agaricus (Collybia) i^lexii^es, Fries, Epicr., p. 96; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 73 ; Cke. Illustr., pi. 154b. 



Among grass, near stumps, &c. 



Inodorous, tough, firm, habit exactly that of a Ji?/ce?ia, and 



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