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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Collybia atratoidcs. l'k. 

 Tin: Blackish Collybia. 



Atratoidcs means like the species atrata, which means black ; so called be- 

 cause the caps when fresh are quite black. Atratoides has a different habitat 

 and is not so dark. 



The pileus is thin, convex, subumbilicate, glabrous, hvgrophanous, blackish- 

 brown when moist, grayish-brown and shining when dry. 



The gills are rather broad, subdistant, adnate. grayish-white, often trans- 

 versely veiny above and venoselv connected. 



Figure 86. Collybia atratoidcs. Two-thirds natural size. Caps blackish 

 to grayish-brown. 



The stem is equal, hollow, smooth, grayish-brown with a whitish mycelioid 

 tomentum at the base. The spores are nearly globose, about .0002-inch broad. 

 The pileus is six t<> ten lines broad and the stem is about one inch long. Peck. 



The plant is gregarious, growing on decayed wood and on mossy sticks, 

 in mixed woods. The margin of the cap is often serrated, as you will 

 see in Figure 86, yet this does not seem to he a constant characteristic of the 

 species. It is closely related to C. atrata. but its habitat and the color of its 

 pileus and gills differ very greatly. I have not eaten it. but have no doubt of 

 its good qualities. 



Found in August and September. Quite common in all our woods. 



