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gills free, rentrlcose, lax, -white, becoming pallid. — Srop. Cam. 

 pAS2. Fr.Ejncr.p.dO. ScJiceff.t. 220. Fl. Dan.t. 160d. Bull. f. 

 403,/. 1. Seem. Journ. Bot. \Y.p. 3-47. 

 On grassy slopes. 



Pileus ratlaer viscid, somewhat striate, shining when dry, 1-2 in. broad, 

 smooth, tawny or tan colour, becoming pale ; stem 3-4 in. long, 2-3 lines 

 thick, hollow and rather fragile ; gills free and rather distant, quaternate. 



154. Agaricus (Collybia) xanthopus. Fr. "Yellow-stemmed 



Collybia."' 



Pileus rather fleshy, convex, then expanded, siib-unibonate, 

 even, smooth ; stem fistulose, equal, yellow, even ; base equal, 

 rooting, strigose; gills truncate behmd, free, broad, thin, lax, 

 crowded, whitish. — Fr.Epicr. p. 91. Batsch. f. 209,vcrr. Eng. 

 Fl.Y.p.4:6. 



About the stumps of trees, &c. July. 



Pileus 1-2 in. broad, tough, sub-convex, becoming pale ; stem 3 in. high, 

 rigid, strigose at the hsLse.— Fries. 



155. Agaricus (Collybia) dry ophilus. Bull. "Wood 



Collybia."' 



Pileus somewhat fleshy, nearly plane, obtuse, rather depressed, 

 even, smooth, turning pale ; stem fistulose, smooth, reddish brown, 

 or yellowish ; gills sinuate, adnexed (at length with a decurrent 

 tooth), nearly free, crowded, narrow, white or pallid. — Fr. Ejncr. 

 p. 92. Bull. t. 434. Sow. t. 127. Schcpff. t. 255. Price,/. 12. 

 Huss. i.t.Sd. Eng. Fl. v. p. 47. Badh. i. t. 8,/. 2, ii. t. 7,/. 5. 



Amongst leaves in woods. Very common. [United States.] 



Pileus 1-2 in., whitish, pinkish, yellowish, or livid, plane, sometimes de- 

 pressed, fleshy, thin, tender, easily injured, of a watery substance ; gills free, 

 white, or very pale flesh colour, soft, tender, entire, or serrate, numerous ; 

 stem 2-3 in. high, \-^ in. thick, shining, splitting, sometimes twisted, of the 

 same colour as the pileus, summit generally darker and pinkish ; the whole 

 plant fragile, and the pileus easily detached from the stem.— Grev. Spores 

 pip-shaped as in Marasmius j^eronatus , Ft. ; length '00025 in. — W. G. S, 



156. Agaricus (Collybia) exsculptus. Fr. "Sulphur-gill 



Collybia." 



Pileus somewhat fleshy, tough, convex, then expanded, umbili- 

 cate, unchangeable ; stem fistulose, slender, incurved, short, 

 smooth ; gills almost free (with a decurrent tooth), arcuate, much 

 crowded, narrow, sulphur coloured. — Fr. Epicr.jj.dS. B. 4' Br. 

 Ann. N.H. 1S66, no. UOd.' 



