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The numerous narrow and elongated basidia of this species are 
suggestive of the specific name. The plant is also easily recognized 
by the peculiar, pale, livid gray hue of the pileus, and the slight 
violaceous tint of the lamelle. The pileus is rarely slightly umbo- 
nate. When dry both it and the stem have a slight silky appearance. 
The stem is usually solid, and slightly enlarged as it enters the 
pileus. The species should be placed among the OrBrroRMEs, though 
in some respects it approaches C. obbatus and C. Calathus. It also 
has the aspect of some species of Hygrophorus. 
Collybia alcalinolens. 
Pileus thin, subconical or convex, then expanded, slightly silky- 
fibrillose, shining, hygrophanous, dark watery-brown when moist, 
grayish-brown or cinereous when dry, flesh white; lamelle rather 
broad, subdistant, adnate or emarginate with a decurrent tooth, 
whitish ; stem equal, glabrous, slightly pruinose above, hollow, 
shining, whitish ; spores broadly elliptical, .0003 to .00035 in. long, 
.0002 to .00025 in. broad. 
Plant gregarious, 1 to 2 in. high, pileus 8 to 18 lines broad, stem 
1 to 3 lines thick. 
Thin woods and bushy places.. Sandlake. June and July. 
This species has a peculiar odor resembling that of chloride of 
lime. In this respect it is similar to some species of Mycena. The 
plant is quite variable. The disk of the pileus is now elevated, now 
depressed, sometimes darker than the rest, sometimes canescent with 
short, grayish fibrils. The margin is quite thin and sometimes stri- 
atulate when moist. Occasionally it surpasses the lamella, which in 
the expanded plant are often ventricose. The stem is sometimes 
irregular or compressed. The species belongs to the section TE- 
PHROPHAN®, and is apparently allied to A. daceratus. 
Leptonia albinella. 
Pileus submembranous, subconical or convex, subumbilicate, fur- 
furaceous or minutely squamulose, hygrophanous, whitish and stri- 
atulate on the margin when moist, white and shining when dry ; 
lamellee narrow, close, adnexed, white, becoming incarnate ; stem 
equal, hollow, glabrous or slightly pruinose, whitish ; spores angular, 
.00045 to .0005 in. long, .0003 to .00035 in. broad. 
Plant 1.5 to 2 in. high, pileus 6 to 12 lines broad, stem 1 line 
thick. 
Bushy places. Sandlake. July. 
