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AGAEICIXI. 



139. Agaricus (Collybia) platyphyllus. Fr. " Broad-gilled 



Collybia." 



Pileus between fleshy and membranaceous, becoming plane, 

 obtuse, moist, streaked with little fibres ; stem stuffed, equal, soft, 

 naked, striate, pallid, ending abruptly ; gills truncate, adnexed 

 distant, broad, -white. — Fr. Epicr. p. 82. Bull, t. 594. Paul t 

 97, f. 1-2. Buxh. lY. t. 18. Ann. N.H. nos. 263, 323. 



In woods, amongst leayes. Rare. [S.Carolina.] 



Pileus 5 in. or more across, smooth, hygrophanous, expanded, with a broad 

 umbo, sinuated and undulate, thin, except in the centre, umber shaded with 

 bistre, more or less virgate. but by no means silky, though it has a sleek shin- 

 ing aspect, flesh brownish beneath the sub-cartilaginous cuticle, in other parts 

 firm and white ; stem 2i in. high, f in. thick, nearly equal, obtuse, stringy, 

 slightly twisted, streaked, smooth, not rooting ; gills broad, truncato-adnexed, 

 at first white, at length pallid, distant, smell strong, taste not unpleasant- — 

 M. J.B. 



The vai'iety (A. repens). with a stout creeping mycelium, has also 

 been found in Britain.— f6-'a/-cZ Chroit.,ld>^l, jj.^2Q,fig.) Spores "0005 X 

 •0007 in. 



140. Agaricus (Collybia) fusipes. Bull. "Spindle-stem 



Collybia." 



Tough ; pileus fleshy, convex, then plane, smooth, even, or ri- 

 mose, umbo evanescent ; stem stuffed, then hollow, contorted, 

 swollen, sulcate, fusiform and rooting ; gills adnexed, nearly free, 

 at length separating behind, broad, distant, connected by veins, 

 white, then the colour of the pileus. — Fr. Epicr. p. 83. Bull. t. 

 106,516,/. 2. Sow.t.Ud. Vent.t.ld,/. D-7. Krombh.t. 42, f. 

 9-11. SchcBff. t. 87-88. Fl. Dan.t.l607. Batt.t.20,B. Berk. 

 Outl. t. 5, /. 5. Huss. ii. t. 48. CooJce, B.F. t. 5. Eng. Fl. v. p. 45. 

 Price,/. 85. Hogg. ^- Johnst. 1. 14. 



On stumps. Veryconamon. Esculent. 



Densely tufted; pilens 1| in. or more broad, when yonng hemispherical, 

 smooth, dull vinous brown, fleshy ; margin incurved, then expanded, cracked, 

 sometimes tesselated and warty, paler, but here and there towards the margin 

 marked with dark patches, as if burnt ; gills pale, umber, free, or only appa- 

 rently adnate. sometimes rounded behind, and then separating from the stem, 

 with a rather watery appearance, though dry, connected by veins, distant ; 

 stem 2-6 in. long, ^-1 in. thick, ventricose, rooting, paler than the pileus, 

 marked towards the base with little dark specks, striate longitudinally, often 

 cracked ; substance within loose and fibrous, at length hollow ; taste agree- 

 able.— J/. J.B. Spores '0002 X 'OOOIS in. 



Far. jedematopus. Fr. Gills unequally decurrent, pallid. — 

 Pall. Boss. i. t. 9,/. 2. (PI. II. f. 6, reduced.) 



