

COLLYBIA 331 



crowded. Flesh, white, rather thick. Spores white, "subglobose, 3-4 /JL, 

 smooth" Rick. In dense clusters on leaf heaps. Aug. Sept. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



1032. C. distorta Fr. Distorta, twisted. 

 P. 5-9 cm., bay brown, becoming pale, fleshy, thin, convex, then 



expanded, umbonate, very lax, smooth. St. 5-8 x 1 cm., pallid, 

 fragile, externally cartilaginous, attenuated upwards from the tomen- 

 tose base, contorted, sulcate. Gills white, then spotted rubiginous, 

 slightly adnexed, crowded, somewhat linear, toothed. Flesh white, 

 reddish under the cuticle of the p. and in the centre of the stem, thin. 

 Spores white, broadly elliptical, 5-6 x 4-5/*, 3-4-guttulate. Gre- 

 garious, or growing in rings. Pine woods. July Nov. Not un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



1033. C. butyracea (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 189, t. 143. 



Butyracea, buttery. 



P. 5-8 cm., rufous brown, fuscous livid, bistre, or bay, becoming pale 

 and almost white when dry, fleshy, convex, then expanded, more or 

 less umbonate, smooth, greasy. St. 5-8 x -5-1 cm., rufous, or bistre, 

 conico-attenuated upwards from the swollen, white-tomentose base, 

 cuticle rigid, cartilaginous, striate, smooth, rarely villous. Gills white, 

 slightly adnexed, somewhat free, broad, thin, crowded, crenulate. 

 Flesh pinkish, or pale brown, becoming whitish, soft, watery, with a 

 horn-like line at the base of the gills. Spores white, elliptical, 9x4- 

 5/z, 1-guttulate. Cystidia none. Woods, heaths, and hilly pastures. 

 Jan. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



var. bibulosa Massee. Bibulosa, sodden. 



Differs from the type in the dingy olive p. 

 var. aurorea (Larb.) Fr. Aurorea, like the dawn. 



Differs from the type in the thinner p., and striate margin. 

 C. phaeopodia (Bull.) Fr. = Tricholoma phaeopodium (Bull.) Quel. 



1034. C. stridula Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 62, lower figs. Stridula, creaking. 

 P. 3-6 cm., blackish, or fuliginous, becoming pale, fleshy, soft, con- 

 vex, then plane, slightly umbonate, smooth, moist, or slightly viscid, 

 hygrophanous. St. 5-7 cm. x 4-6 mm., concolorous, cylindrical, rigid, 

 but fragile, subcartilaginous, fibrillosely striate, base thickened, prae- 

 morse. Gills white, arcuato-adnexed, crowded, broad. Flesh brown, 

 then whitish, soft. Spores white, "8-10 x 4/z" Sacc. On the ground. 

 Oct. Rare. 



1035. C. pulla (Schaeff.) Fr. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. n, t. 1. 



Pulla, dusky. 

 P. 3-6 cm., purplish bay, nearly black, becoming paler when dry, 



