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there a change to blue, and then black. Some specimens were more 

 like Tricholoma than Collyhia. 



It is hoped that more work can be done on these forms and their 

 status definitely determined. 



887. In pine and oak woods east of graded school house, October 4, 1913. Spores 



3.7-4.6 X 7.4-9/1. 

 890. In pine and oak woods, sandy soil by edge of road, about 250 j'ards south- 

 east of cemetery in woods, October 6, 1913. 

 3869. Mixed woods, back of athletic field, December 11, 1919. 

 3880. Mixed woods, Strowd's lowgrounds, December 13, 1919. 



Asheville. Beardslee. 



10. CoUybia platyphylla Fr. 



Plates 1, 13, and 23 



Cap large, up to 12.5 cm. broad, plane and regular or considerably 

 crimped, lobed and uneven, sometimes depressed in center; surface 

 smooth, finely punctate under a lens, not viscid, a rich bay brown 

 (about warm sepia, Ridgway) in center,. fading to snuff brown on the 

 margin. Flesh white, extraordinarily thin for the size of the plant, 

 only 3 mm. thick near the cap, and fading to a mere transparent 

 membrane near the margin. 



Gills deeply sinuate, barely reaching the stem at top, distant, 

 sometimes much crumpled and ridged on faces, varying greatly in 

 width in the same plant, some 2 cm. wide in the center, while other 

 narrow ones running between are only a few mm. wide; color nearly 

 white or with a slight flesh tint. 



Stem stout, about 5-10 cm. long, 1.5 to 2,3 cm. thick at top, some- 

 what larger below, stuffed, then usually hollow; surface even and 

 smooth, striate, white at top, brownish below; flesh white, firm. 



Spores white, smooth, oval to short-elliptic, 6.8-7.6 x 7.6-8.5 [i. 



Edible, but not so good as many others. 



1263. In grass just east of Old West Building, campus, U. N. C, September 25, 



1914. Painting. 

 1833. In humus, woods by branch southwest of Rocky Ridge Farm, April 20, 1915. 



Spores creamy in bulk, subspherical to ovate, smooth, 4. 3-5. 8 X 6.3-8m. 



Surface of cap brownish-gray, with whitish flecks from the cracking 



superficial layer. 

 2045. In grass near oak tree north of Alumni Building, June 9, 1916. Also occurs 



near stump north of President's house. 

 2509. In same spot as No. 2045, June 8, 1917. 



