AGAEICIXl. 63 



On wood or clung. Rare. Lytcliett, Dorset. 



Pileus 2 lines broad, extremely delicate and fragile, clothed witli white 

 down, fixed by a few downy threads, the margin involute ; gills radiating, 

 distant, with sometimes a single smaller one in the interstices. — J/. J.B. 



Sub-Gen. 7. Collybia, Fv. Epicr. p. 81. 



Pileus at first convex, with an involute margin ; stem witli a 

 cartilaginous bark, of a different substance from the hymeno- 

 phore, but confluent with it ; gills adnate or slightly attaciied 

 (not decurrent). 



Hab. Most of the species are epiphytal. — (PL II., Jig. 1 .) 



Usually small and tough, lasting far into the winter ; few only are known 

 to be edible, as A.fasij)es, Bull. A.escide/itas,Wiclj\&o. 2faras)/iius is closely 

 allied to Collyhia. 



Sect. 1. Stricepedes — stem sulcate, fibrillose, or striate. 



137. Agaaricus (Collybia) ladicatus. Relli. "Eooting Collybia." 



Pileus fleshy, thin, convex, then plane, wrinkled, glutinous ; 

 stem stuffed, tall, attenuated upwards, rooting, rigid, smooth ; 

 gills adnexed, distant, white. — Fr. Epicr. p. 81. Sov:. ^.-48. Gard. 

 C;z?m. 1860,7). 265. Grev.t.211. Krombh.t.6'2J.Q-10. Fault. 

 97, /. 3-4. BerJc. Outl. t. 5, /. 4. Eng. Ft. v. p. 4-4. Hms. i. 1. 15. 

 PriceJ.^%. Vent. t. 56,/. 1-2. 



On old stumps, &c. Very common. [United States.] 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, flat, more or less umbonate, radiato-rugose, smooth, 

 at first slimy, carnose, tough and elastic, delicate, fusco-ochraceoas, oliva- 

 ceoas. &C.J often irregular; gills white, thick, distant, ventricose, adnate, 

 with or without a tooth, sometimes almost decurrent; stem 4-8 in. high, 

 about f in. thick, attenuated upwards, twisted, not smooth, but rather fur- 

 furaceous, sometimes striate above with raised lines, paler than the pileus, 

 juicy, brittle, splitting longitudinally, sometimes tough, at length hollow, 

 rufescent within, penetrating very deeply into the ground by a fusiform root. 

 — M.J.B. Spores '10041 X 'OOOGS in. 



138. Agazicus (Collybia) longipes. Bull. " Long-stemmed 



Collybia." 



Pileus fleshy, thin, conical, then expanded, .umbonate, dry, 

 slightly velvety ; stem stuff'ed, tall, attenuated upwards, villose, 

 at length sulcate ; root long, fusiform ; gills rounded behind, 

 rather distant, white. — Bull. t. 232. Fr. Epicr. p. 81. Huss. i. t. 

 80. Batt. t. 20, /. A. Corda. Sturm, t. 52. Ag.pudens, Ann. N.H. 

 no. 64. 



On old stumps, &c. 



Stem quite as velvety as in A . velvtipes, and the pilens, especially its margin, 

 more or less so, and by no means glutinous. 



