COLLYBIA 329 



1026. C. semitalis Fr. (= CollyUa fumosa (Pers.) Quel.) Bres. Fung. 

 Trid. t. 158. Semitalis, pertaining to footpaths. 



P. 37 cm., whitish fuliginous, or fuscous, becoming pale cinereous 

 yellow, or isabelline when dry, fleshy-membranaceous, convex, or con- 

 vexo-campanulate, then expanded and umbonate, or depressed, 

 smooth, moist, sometimes innately fibrillose; margin striate. St. 

 3-8 cm. x 6-8 mm., white, becoming fuscous, subequal, fibrillose, base 

 white-strigose. Gills white, becoming yellowish, and finally spotted black 

 when touched, adnate, or sinuato-adnate, somewhat crowded. Flesh 

 white, becoming black when broken, thin. Spores white, elliptical, 

 7-8 x 3-4/z, pointed at one end, 1-guttulate. Smell rancid, taste 

 bitterish. Coniferous woods. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1027. C. fusipes (Bull.) Berk. Cke. Illus. no. 185, t. 141. 



Fusus, a spindle ; pes, foot. 



P. 4-10 cm., rufescent reddish brown, or liver colour, becoming pale, 

 or dingy tan, fleshy, convex, then flattened, umbonate, the umbo 

 evanescent, smooth, dry, often splitting. St. 7-15 x 1 cm., concolorous, 

 very cartilaginous, swollen, ventricose in the middle, attenuated at both 

 ends, often twisted, longitudinally striato-sulcate, fusiformly attenuated 

 at the base and blackish, often arising from the remains of under- 

 ground stems of a previous year's growth, the so-called sclerotium 

 of Leveille. Gills whitish, becoming concolorous and often spotted, 

 annulato-adnexed, soon separating, free, broad, distant, firm, con- 

 nected by veins, crisped. Flesh concolorous, becoming whitish, firm. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 5-6 x 3-4/M. Cystidia filiform, flexuose, 

 clavate, 10-44 x 1-2/z. Taste mild. Edible. Caespitose, at the base 

 of oaks and on old stumps. May Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



var. oedematopus (Schaeff.) Fr. Bulliard, t. 76, as Agaricusfusiformis. 



oiBrjfj,a, a swelling; TTOVS, foot. 



Differs from the type in the rufous date brown, conical, then plane, 

 pulverulent p., the pulverulent, very ventricose stem, and the pallid gills. 

 Stumps. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. contorta (Bull.) Gill. & Lucand. Bulliard, t. 36. 



Contorta, twisted together. 



Differs from the type in the equal, contorted stems, connate at the 

 base, the white, crowded gills, and the deeper coloured, thinner p. Stumps. 



1028. C. lancipes Fr. Lancea, a spear; pes, foot. 

 P. 4-7 cm., pale reddish brown, or flesh colour, becoming paler, often 



white at the striate margin, fleshy, convex, then plane, often umbonate, 

 radiately rugose, smooth. St. 4-10 cm. x 5-12 mm., concolorous, or 

 paler, equal, attenuated at the base, striate, tivisted. Gills pale flesh 



