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broad, subdistant, rounded behind, slightly adnexed, whitish or yellowish- 

 stem firm, externally cartilaginous, stuffed or hollow, brown or tawny- 

 brown, densely velvety-hairy ; spores narrowly elliptical or oblong-ellip- 

 tical, .0003 to .00036 inch long, .00016 broad. 



Plant commonly csespitose ; pileus i to 2 inches broad ; stem i to 2 

 inches long, i to 3 lines thick. 



Decaying wood and trunks of trees. Late autumn and early spring. 

 Common. 



This species is quite distinct from all our other members of the genus, 

 and is easily recognized by its slimy viscid pileus, velvety stem and tufted 

 mode of growth. It appears in autumn, but persists till freezing weather 

 stops all growth. It also sometimes appears in the spring. Its crowded 

 mode of growth sometimes causes the pileus to be very irregular or even 

 eccentric. When young, the stems are almost white and their villosity is 

 scarcely noticeable, but they become darker with age and the velvety 

 coating becomes more conspicuous, especially toward the base of the 

 stem. Variety rubescens Cke. has the pileus more highly colored than in 

 the typical form, and the lamella become spotted or stained with rusty- 

 brown. It has not yet occurred with us. 



CoUybia succosa Pk. 

 Juicy Collvbia. 



(Report 25, p. 74. Syl. vol. v. p. 293.) 



Pileus subcartilaginous, campanulate or convex, covered with a minute 

 tomentum or pubescence, cinereous or brownish-gray, the margin in- 

 curved and surpassing the lamellae, flesh assuming purplish and blackish 

 hues where cut or wounded, a watery or serum-like juice oozing out from 

 wounds in minute drops; lamellae rather broad, thin, close, emarginate, 

 with a slight decurrent tooth, tapering outwardly, whitish; stem firm, 

 equal or slightly tapering upward, often curved, sometimes eccentric, 

 containing a whitish pith, clothed and colored like the pileus; spores 

 subglobose, .00012 to .00016 inch long. 



Pileus 6 to 12 lines broad; stem i to 3 inches long, ahout i line thick. 



Much decayed wood and prostrate trunks in woods. Cattaraugus, 

 Otsego, Albany and Lewis counties. July to September. 



This also is a very distinct and an aberrant species easily known by 

 the minute uniform grayish tomentum of the pileus and stem, and by the 

 thin watery juice that sparingly oozes from wounds of the plant. Wounds 

 of the lamellae become slowly discolored and the pileus and stem are apt 

 to turn black in drying. Its oozing juice is suggestive of some species 



