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equal, hollow, glabrous, sometimes slightly fibrillose or slightly pruinoje 

 at the top, colored like the pileus ; spores subglobose or broadly elliptical, 

 .00016 to .0002 inch long. 



Plant scattered or subc^espitose ; pileus 6 to i6 lines broad; stem i to 



2 inches long, i to 2 lines thick. / 



Decaying wood, especially of pine. Albany, Lewis and Rensselaer 

 counties. August and September. 



Var. rubescentifolia Pk. {Agaricus rubescenti/olius, Rep. 39, p. 38.) 

 Pileus at first brownish, fading to smoky-yellow; lamellae at first pale- 

 yellow. 



The change of color which the lamellae assume in drying is a marked 

 feature in this species and indicates a relationship between it and C. 

 myriadophylla. It is, however, a stouter plant with broader and less close 

 lamellae. It has many of the characters attributed to C. luteoolivacea, but 

 in that species the lamellae are said to be adnate and the pileus glabrous, 

 and no mention is made of any change in the color of the lamellae by 

 drying. In our plant the pileus is sometimes slightly fibrillose or even 

 squamulose. Sometimes the whole plant assumes the dull red hue in 

 drying. 



CoUybia hygroph oroides Pk. 



Hygrophorus-like Collybia. 

 (Rep. 32, p. 26. Bulletin No. 2, p. 12; plate 2, figs. 23-26.) 

 Pileus subconical, becoming convex or nearly plane, glabrous, hy- 

 grophanous, reddish or yellowish-red when moist, paler when dry ; lamellae 

 broad, subdistant, rounded behind or deeply emarginate, eroded on the 

 edge, whitish; stem equal, striate, stuffed or hollow, whitish; spores 

 subeUiptical, .0002 to .00025 inch long, .00016 broad. 



Plant scattered or subc^spitose ; pileus i to 1.5 inch broad ; stem 2 to 



3 inches long, 2 to 3 lines thick. 



Decaying half-buried wood. Albany county. May, 



The pileus of the young plant resembles taat of Hygrophorus conicus 



both in color and shape. When dry it becomes pallid or subochraceous. 



The plant is very rare, not having been found again since its discovery. 



Collybia lentinoides Pk. 



Lentinus-like Collybia. 



(Rep. 32, p. 27.) 



Pileus thin, convex or nearly plane, obtuse, glabrous, hygrophanous, 



reddish-brown or chestnut color when moist, reddish tan-color when dry ; 



lamellae narrow, close, adnexed, serrate on the edge, white; stem equal, 



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