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often densely cespitose, somewhat fleshy, convex, then plane, flaccid, smooth, 

 often watery, margin thin, in old specimens slightly depressed and wavy. 



The gills are free and in old plants remote from the stem, rather crowded, 

 narrow, flesh colored, then whitish. 



The stem is two to three inches long, hollow, pale red, sprinkled with a 

 mealy pubescence. The spores are slightly ovate, inclined to be pointed at one 

 end, 5-6x3-4/*. 



These plants grow among leaves in the woods after warm rains, growing 

 in tufts, sometimes in rows or lines. They are not as large as C. dryophylla, 

 the stem is quite different and the plants seem to have the ability to revive like 

 a Marasmius. They can be dried for winter use. 



Collybia myriadophylla. Pk. 

 Many-leaved Collybia. 



Myriadophylla is from two Greek words, meaning many leaves. It has 

 reference to its numerous gills. 



The pileus is very thin, broadly convex, then 

 plane or centrally depressed, sometimes umbilli- 

 cate, hygrophanous, brown when moist, ochraceous 

 or tan-color when dry. 



The gills are very numerous, narrow, linear, 

 crowded, rounded behind or slightly adnexed, 

 brownish-lilac. 



The stem is slender, but commonly short, equal, 

 glabrous, stuffed or hollow, reddish-brown. The 

 spores are minute, broadly elliptical, .00012 to 

 .oooi6-inch long, .0008-inch broad. Peck, 49th 

 Rep. 



I found only a few specimens in Haynes's Hol- 

 low. The caps were about an inch broad and the 

 stems were an inch and a half long. It will be 

 easily identified if one has the description of it, 

 because of its peculiarly colored gills. I found 

 my plants on a decayed stump in August. In the 

 dried specimens the gills assume a more brownish- 

 red hue, as in the next following species. 



Collybia colorea. Pk. They sometimes appear 

 to have a glaucous reflection, probably from the abundance of the spores. The 

 stem is more or less radicated and often slightly floccose-pruinose toward the 

 base. The basidia are very short, being only .0006 to .0008-inch long. 



Figure 85. Collybia myriadophylla. 



