COLLYBIA 335 



whitish, or cream colour, subequal, or slightly attenuated upwards, 

 somewhat fragile, smooth, apex mealy, base pubescent, praemorse. 

 Gills whitish, adnexed, then free, broad, lax, often veined at the base, 

 subdistant. Flesh white, thin. Spores white, "pruniform, 10/u,, 

 1-guttulate" Quel. Smell like burnt meat. Edible. Beech stumps, 

 and forming rings in pastures and on grassy slopes. May Oct. 

 Uncommon. 



1046. C. thelephora Cke. & Massee. Cke. Illus. no. 1143, t. 1167. 



#77X7;, a nipple; <f>epa), I bear. 



P. 2-3 cm., pale dingy ochraceous, disc darker, slightly fleshy, cam- 

 panulate, lax, with a small, acute, papillate umbo, then expanded and 

 wavy, often depressed round the umbo, smooth, slightly striate; 

 margin at first incurved. St. 6-10 cm. x 2-3 mm., purplish brown at 

 the base, paler upwards, equal, smooth. Gills whitish, adnate, narrower 

 in front, 3 mm. broad, thin, rather crowded. Flesh pinkish, thin. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 9 x Ip. Gregarious. Peat bogs, and partly 

 dried up Sphagnum swamps. Sept. Uncommon. 



1047. C. ventricosa (BuU.) Fr. Bulliard, t. 411, fig. 1. 



Ventricosa, ventricose. 



P. 1-4 cm., tan, or isabelline, slightly fleshy, campanulato-convex, 

 umbonate, smooth; margin slightly striate. St. 6-10 cm. x 2-3 mm., 

 concolorous, or rufescent, base ventricose and attenuated into a long, 

 slender, tapering root, smooth. Gills rufescent, arcuato-adfixed, ventri- 

 cose, subdistant, undulate. Flesh white, thin. Spores white. Soli- 

 tary, or gregarious. Woods. Oct. Uncommon. 



1048. C. Stevensonii B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 199, t. 145, fig. B. 



Rev. John Stevenson, the eminent Scotch mycologist. 

 P. 1-1-5 cm., pallid yellow, slightly fleshy, semi-ovate, obtuse, viscid, 

 here and there spotted by the viscous matter. St. 3-5 cm. x 2 mm., 

 slightly rufous, attenuated at the base into a somewhat long, thread-like 

 root deeply immersed in the soil, fibrillose, pulverulent upwards. Gills 

 white, adnate with a decurrent tooth, subventricose, very broad, dis- 

 tant. Flesh white, reddish in the st., thin. Spores white, elliptical, 

 10-11 x 7-8 ju-. Old pastures. Aug. Rare. 



1049. C. psathyroides Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 200, t. 266. 



Psathyra, the genus Psathrya', etSo?, like. 



Entirely ivory white. P. 2-5 cm. high, 18 mm. broad, slightly fleshy, 

 campanulate, obtuse, rather viscid; margin regular, even. St. 7- 

 10 cm. x 3-4 mm., equal, straight, rather tough. Gills adnate with 

 a decurrent tooth, very broad, 6-8 mm., triangular, subdistant. Flesh 

 whitish, thin. Spores white, elliptical, 15 x 7/z. On the ground in 

 woods. Oct. Rare. 



