COLLYBIA 327 



often twisted. Grills shining white, sometimes bistre at the edge, attenu- 

 ated behind, and adfixed, often with a decurrent tooth, at length 

 somewhat separating, ventricose, distant, rather thick. Flesh white, 

 thin, soft, elastic. Spores white, broadly elliptical, 14-15 x 8-9/x,, 

 1-guttulate; "cystidia inflated, cylindric-sack-shaped, 20/x, broad" 

 Lange. Woods, and pastures. June Nov. Common. 



1019. C. retigera Bres. (= Collybia pkxipes (Fr.) Quel.) Bres. Fung. 

 Trid. t. 4. Rete, a net; gero, I bear. 



P. 3-6 cm., fuscous cinereous, becoming pale, disc somewhat tawny, 

 fleshy, thin, campanulate, then expanded, umbonate, reticulated with 

 swollen, pale, anastomosing veins, especially when old, dry, smooth; 

 margin striate. St. 4-6 cm. x 5-7 mm., livid-pallid, equal, somewhat 

 rooting, often compressed, white-fibrillose. Gills cinereous, edge paler, 

 fimbriate, rounded behind, almost free, broad, ventricose, somewhat 

 crowded. Flesh concolorous, thin, soft, somewhat watery. Spores 

 white, elliptical, 7 x 5-6ja. Beech stumps. Dec. Uncommon. 



1020. C. Henriettae W. G. Sm. Henrietta Smith. 

 P. 10 cm., somewhat yellowish umber, convex, then expanded, dry, 



even, somewhat downy. St. 18-19 cm. x 6-7 mm., pale pallid yellowish 

 brown, darker below, attenuated upwards, even, slightly rooting, sub- 

 pruinose. Gills broadly adnate, slightly rounded behind, broad, 

 distant. Flesh very thin, pale pallid yellowish brown in the st. Spores 

 white, 18 x 12/x. On and about trees, stumps, etc. Sept. Un- 

 common. 



1021. C. longipes (Bull.) Berk. (= Marasmius longipes (BuU.) Quel.) 



Longus, long; pes, foot. 



P. 5-10 cm., pale brown, fleshy, thin, conico-expanded, then plane, 

 umbonate, dry, somewhat velvety-villous. St. 8-12 cm. x 6-8 mm., 

 dark brown, attenuated upwards, with a long fusiform root, velvety, 

 at length sulcate. Gills milk white, free, rounded behind, very distant, 

 ventricose. Flesh white, yellowish in the stem, firm. Spores white, 

 globose, 12-15//,. Cystidia "very sparse, cylindrical-subulate, 50- 

 60 x 8-lOju," Rick. Taste nutty. Edible. Heaths, and pastures. 

 Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 

 var. badia Lucand. Badia, bay brown. 



Differs from the type in being thinner and smaller, and in the deep 

 chestnut brown p. and st. covered with long, bay brown, shining hairs. 

 Spores globose, 10-11/i. Hedgerows. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



1022. C. eriocephala Rea. epiov, wool; Ke<f)a\rj, head. 

 P. 3-6 cm., fulvous tawny, convex, then expanded, velvety; margin 



involute. St. 4-7 x -5-1-5 cm., concolorous, paler above, fusiform, 

 extending into the long, branched, rhizomorphoid, brown mycelium, 



