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141. Agaricus (Collybia) maculatus. A. <^\ S. "Spotted 



Colly bia." 



Pileus fleshy, compact, convex, then plane, obtnse, even, 

 smooth ; stem stout, ventricose, striate, attenuated below, abrupt; 

 gills free, crowded, rather linear, white, as well as the stem. — Fr. 

 Epicr.p.^^. Sow.t. 24.(0. Huss.ilt.GO. Eng. Fl.x.p.Vo. 



In fir woods. Xot common. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, at first white, then spotted, as well as the stem, with 

 reddish brown, even, smooth, truly carnose, rather compact, hemispherical, at 

 first with an involute margin, then quite plane, margin often repand, white, 

 here and there spotted with rufous, at length altogether dirty rufous; gills 

 free, very close, narrow, scarcely above 2 lines broad, linear, dirty pallid; 

 stem 3-4 in. high, but much drawn out when growing amongst moss, 4-10 

 lines thick, stout, unequal, more or less ventricose and attenuated below. — 

 Fries. Spores nearly globular, length "0002 in. 



(PI. Il.y fig. 6, small figure.) 



142. Agazicus (Collybia) butyraceus. Bull. " Buttery 



Collybia." 



Pileus fleshy, convex, then expanded, umbonate, even, smooth, 

 moist, changing colour ,flesh becoming white ; stem stuffed, exter- 

 nally cartilaginous, conical, striate, reddish brown ; gills nearly 

 free, crowded, creniilate, white. — Fr. Epicr. p. 84. Bull. t. 572. 

 Buxh. iv. t. 5./. 1. Batt. 1. 16, G. Eng. Fl. \.p. 46. 



In woods, especially of fir. Common. [S. Carolina.] 



Pileus \\ in. broad, sub-carnose, convex, expanded, umbonate, sub--vdscid, 

 of a livid ochre, or dull green, when quite young of a livid brown, the mar- 

 gin sub-rufescent, but a portion below the umbo soon grows pale, so that the 

 pileus appears of four colours ; the umbo always dark, sometimes the rest of 

 the pileus is pale, rufescent, or ochraceous, margin occasionally striate, flesh 

 white, mottled with rufous ; gills close, free, not ventricose. rounded, edge 

 rather uneven and notched ; stem 1^-2 in. high, f in. thick below, somewhat 

 twisted, smooth, slightly striate, downy at the bulbous base, stuS'ed, white 

 within, outer coat of a different structure and pubescent. — M. J. B. 



Sect. 2. Velutipedes — stem velvety, floccose, or pruinose. 



143. Agaricus (Collybia) Telutipes. Curt. •■' Velvet- stemmed 



Collybia." 



Pileus fleshy, thin, convex, then plane, obtuse, smooth, viscid ; 

 stem stuff'ed, velvety, rooting, dark-bay; gflls adnexed, distant, 

 yellowish. — Fr. Epicr. p. 86. Curt. Fl. L. t. 70. Iluss.i. t. 56. 

 Bolt. 1. 126. Krombh.t.U,/. 6-9, t. 62, f. 21. Tratt.Austr.t.l. 

 Batsch. f.l22. Paw/, f. 104,/. 5-6. Cooke exs.no. 201. Vent.t. 

 25./. 3-4. Batt. t. 22 C. Eng. FL v. p. 44. Vaill. t. 12, /. 8-9. 

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