326 GOMPHIDIUS. COLLYBIA 



whitish, then brownish, decurrent, distant. Flesh pallid, blackish at the 

 base of the St., thick at the disc, very thin at the margin. Spores 

 brownish, fusiform, 20 x 5-6jU, 1-guttulate. Woods. Sept. Rare. 



1017. G. gracilis B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 860, t. 883. 



Gracilis, slender. 



P. 2*5 5 cm., pale vinous brown, or dingy tan colour, conico-hemi- 

 spherical, clothed with dingy gluten, at length spotted with black, 

 especially near the margin, the spots often forming an irregular black 

 border. St. 4-5 cm. x 3-6 mm., pale above, yellow at the base, and 

 often becoming blackish, slightly attenuated downwards, flexuose, apex 

 white squamulose, virgate below with the remains of the gluten. Gills 

 whitish cinereous, decurrent, arched, forked, thick, obtuse, clothed 

 (under a lens] with short, washy bistre hairs. Flesh white, yellow, or 

 reddish at the base of the st., thin at the margin. Spores dingy olive, 

 or brown, fusiform, 18-19 x 5 7/z, 2-3-guttulate. Fir woods, and 

 heaths. July Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



C. Pileus confluent with, but heterogeneous from, 



the cartilaginous stem. 

 *Gills adnate, or sinuato-adnate. 



|Margin of pileus at first incurved, or exceeding the gills. 

 Spores white. 

 Collybia Fr. 



(Ko\\v/3o<;, a small coin.) 



Pileus fleshy, membranaceous, regular; margin incurved. Stem 

 central, cartilaginous. Gills adnate, adnexed, or free. Spores white, 

 rarely yellowish, greenish, or brownish red; elliptical, globose, oblong, 

 pip-shaped; smooth, verrucose, punctate, or echinulate; continuous. 

 Cystidia present, or absent. Growing on the ground, or on wood; 

 solitary, or caespitose. 



a. St. stout, sulcate, or fibrillosely striate. 



A. Gills white, or brightly coloured, not cinereous. Flesh often white. 

 *Gills broad, subdistant. 



1018. C. radicata (Relh.) Berk. Holland, Champ, t. 45, no. 98. 



Radicata, rooted. 



P. 3-10 cm., fuscous-olivaceous, bistre, or whitish, fleshy, thin, con- 

 vex, then flattened, gibbous, often irregular, glutinous, radiato-rugose. 

 St. 10-20 x -5 cm., white, or paler than the p., attenuated upwards, 

 and downwards from the level of the soil, and forming a long tail-like 

 fusiform root, smooth, at length striato-sulcate, cuticle cartilaginous, 



