100 Journal of the Mitchell Society [December 



is found frequently in the summer, and has been referred to Peck's 

 species with which it seems to agree. The dried plants become dingy 

 as they dry, as noted by Peck. 

 Asheville. Beardslee. 



16. CoUybia velutipes (Curt.) Fr. 



Plates 19 and 23 



Plants densely crow^led and imbricated or somewhat scattered, 

 growing on logs. 



Cap up to 4.5 cm. broad, very irregular in shape and surface, 

 ridged and often deeply pitted, general outline rounded or nearly 

 plane; surface very glutinous and viscid, smooth, color a strong dull 

 red (about burnt sienna) in center, shading out to a yellowish-red on 

 margin; in old wet plants a deeper blackish-red. Flesh light reddish- 

 yellow (about color of gills), about 3 mm. thick near stem, quickly 

 thinning to less than 1 mm., tasteless or sweetish. 



Gills moderately close, sinuate attached, with a broad, deep tooth 

 near stem, about 8 mm. wide at the tooth and 4 mm. wide beyond; 

 color a light reddish-yellowy about pale yellow-orange of Ridgw^ay, 

 lighter when young. 



Stem central or somewhat lateral, al^out 2. 5 to 5 cm. long, usually 

 strongly flattened at top or to full extent, about 5 to 8 mm. wide at 

 cap, tapering downwards, and usually fused with others at base into 

 a dense clump, surface densely short-tomentose, almost velvety; color 

 of gills at top, dark reddish-brown elsewhere, texture tough, almost 

 cartilaginous at surface, more fibrous inside; solid or partly hollow. 



Spores (of No. 1507) white, very abundant, elliptic, smooth, 3.4 x 

 5.1-8.5 [x. 



This is one of the good edible mushrooms and it may be had often 

 in any of the winter months. We find it in Chapel Hill only in cool 

 weather. For an elaborate account of the plant with ten plates see 

 Stewart in Bull. No. 448, N. Y. Ag. Exp. Sta., Geneva, Feb. 19 18; 

 also Biffen in Journ. Linn. Soc. 34: 147. 1899. 



For other illustrations see Mycologia 1: 39, pi 3. 1909; Krieger. 

 Nat. Geog, Mag. 37: 398. 1920. 



1507. On end of hickory log in grove behind Memorial Hall, December 9, 1914. 

 2013. On a charred oak stump, southwest of athletic field, December 18, 1915. 

 Spores elliptic, smooth, 3.2-4 X 5.5-8m. 



