1921] The Collybias of North Carolina 89 



the cap up to 2.5 cm., usually about 1.5 cm. broad, nearly plane or 

 irregular, glabrous, not viscid, hygrophanous, brownish-leather color 

 when wet, leather color or buffy leather when dry. Flesh concolorous; 

 taste oily-woody, strong, odor same or slight. Gills rather close, sin- 

 uate, color of cap, 1-2 mm. wide. Stem 1.5-2.4 cm. long, 1-2 mm. 

 thick, smooth, concolorous, tough, solid, firmly attached in the soil 

 and bringing up a ball of earth. Spores (of No. 3237) white, elliptic, 

 2.9-3.7 X 4.1-5.5 [i, identical with those of the typical form. 



2500. In humus soil under shrubs in Arboretum, May 11, 1917. 



32.37. In sparse weeds and grass under oaks, roadside home near Mebane, N. C. 



May 20, 1919. 

 3236. Bare soil, road in front of Dr. Battle's, May 15, 1919. This is just like 



No. 3237, except that it is abnormally squat and irregular and more 



cespitose; cap margin strongly recurved in most; odor and taste the 



same. 

 3240. On nearly bare soil under oak, hillside on Glen Burnie farm, May 21, 1919. 



Spores 3 X 4.2-5. 5m. 



4. Collybia Earleae (Murrill) n. comb. 

 Gymnopus Earleae Murrill. 



Plates 9 and 23 



Cap 6 mm. to 3.3 cm. broad, convex, then plane or concave, 

 smooth, dull, margin incurved until near maturity, sometimes striate; 

 color pinkish buff or dark brown then wood brown; surface minutely 

 puberulent all over when young. Flesh concolorous, tough; taste 

 rankly moldy; odor faintly similar. 



Gills not crowded, notched at stem, narrowly adnexed, becoming 

 practically free at full maturity, narrow, 1-3 mm. wide, pale then 

 nearly color of cap, with tint of pink. 



Stem 1.5-3.3 cm. long, 1-4 mm. thick, tough and cartilaginous, 

 hollow, granular-pulverulent, then smooth, color of cap or a darker 

 reddish buff; attached to soil by a decided clump of tangled, tawny 

 hairs which come up with it, bringing a ball of earth. 



Spores (of No. 3052) white, smooth, pip-shaped, 2.3-3 X 5.2-6 [i. 



This seems certainly C. Earleae, which is known only from the 

 type locality — a creek bottom near Auburn, Alabama. The small 

 size, dark color, growth on damp earth, pinkish-brown gills and par- 

 ticularly the dense clump of tawny hairs easily distinguish it. 



