19^1] The Collybias of North Carolina 91 



589. On leaves, below Howell's Spring, October 18, 1912. Spores 3.3-4 X 6-8.5m, 



with mucro end pointed and bent. 

 628. On leaves near Battle's Branch back of Dr. Wilson's house, October 24, 1912. 



Blowing Rock, Atkinson. 



Ashe\ille, abundant. Beardslee. 



6. CoUybia myriadophylla Peck. 



Cap 2-5 cm. broad, thin and tough, broadly convex to plane and 

 slightly depressed at the center, hygrophanous, brownish or grayish 

 brown with a distinct lilac tinge when moist, paler when dry, minutely 

 fibrillose. 



Gills very crowded and narrow, adnexed, brownish lilac. 



Stem slender, tough, 2-4 cm. long 1-2 mm. thick, colored like the 

 cap, often compressed silky pruinose especially toward the rooting 

 base. 



Spores ellipsoid, 2 x3-4 ^. 



Growing on old logs. Rare. 



This seems more common farther to the north. It is quite com- 

 mon in the coniferous woods of upper Canada. It is very distinct in 

 its very crowded and narrow lilac gills. The texture of the plant is 

 suggestive of Marasmius. 



Asheville. Beardslee. 



7. Colly bia distorta A. & S. 



Plate 11 



Cap 2.6-8 cm. broad, campanulate, then expanded, and in age 

 with the irregular and contorted margin upturned; glabrous, hygroph- 

 anous, deep reddish brown, paler when dry, not viscid. Flesh 

 toughish, pale-concolorous; taste of rotten wood; odor none. 



Gills crowded, up to 6 mm. wide, mostly narrower, several times 

 branched toward the margin; edges pubescent, thick; color a dilute 

 tan> then strongly stained and blotched with reddish brown. 



Stem short in ours, 2-4 cm. long, 5-10 mm. thick, often flattened; 

 strongly channelled, inherently fibrous, the base whitish with myce- 

 lium and connected with stout white strands which run in the rotten 

 wood. 



Spores white, smooth, oval, 3.3-4.2 x 4.4-6 [i. (rather few in 

 this collection), 



3519. On a rotten log, October 26, 1919. 



