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color of cap when sho-\vii through the pubescence; tough, often com- 

 pressed ; hollow. 



Spores white, smooth, elliptic, pointed, 2.5-3.7 x 6.2-7.4 \x. 



3533. Mixed woods back of cemetery, October 26, 1919. 



Blowing Rock. Atkinson. 



Asheville. Beardslee. 



Middle and upper districts, among rotten leaves. Curtis. 



19. Colly bia zonata Pk. 



Plates 21 and 23 



Cap up to 3. 6 cm. broad, convex, or nearly flat with a broad umbo, 

 a sharp depression in the center (umbilicate) at all ages, flatly hemi- 

 spheric when young, with the margin strongly incurved ; surface con- 

 spicuously clothed with roughish hairs of a rich tawny color, the hairs 

 usually pinched into groups and flattened. Flesh thin, tough, white, 

 taste sweetish, of a disagreeable, fishy nature, odor strong and of the 

 same nature, and persisting long after drying. Occasionally the odor 

 is absent, as in No. 2658. 



Gills white, rather close, narrow, about 1.5 mm. wide, quicVly 

 rounded at the stem and barely reaching it at the upper angle. 



Stem slender, even, up to 5 cm. long, about 1.5 to 2 mm. thick, 

 tough and strong, with a small irregular hollow about the size of a 

 needle; surface covered with similar hairs as the cap and of the same 

 color. 



Spores white, elliptic, smooth, 4.5-5.4 x 6.4-7.2 [jl. 



The plants are cespitose from decaying bits of twigs, etc., on the 

 ground and are remarkable for their penetrating odor, somewhat re- 

 sembling the fishy smell around old wharves, only more acid. This 

 is not mentioned by others. 



Not found at Asheville by Beardslee and apparently new to the 

 state. For a discussion of this and related species see Atkinson N. Y. 

 State Mus. Bull. 205-206: 61. 1919. For other illustration see 

 Mycologia 4: pi. 56, fig. 8. 1912. 



1577. From twigs, rootlets, old beech fruits, etc., on ground. New Hope Swamp' 



June 26, 1915. 

 1899. On a rotten root, woods at foot of Lone Pine Hill, October 17, 1915. 

 2241. On hull of Hicoria ovata, swamp of New Hope Creek, June 24, 1916. 

 2568. By path in woods along Battle's branch, July 2, 1917. 



