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1064. C. ozes Fr. ofa, I have a smell. 

 P. 23 cm., grey-fuscous, becoming clay-fuscous, pallid when dry, 



slightly fleshy, convex, then plane, umbonate, hygrophanous, smooth; 

 margin striate when moist. St. 611 cm. x 2 mm., fuliginous grey, 

 equal, or scarcely attenuated from the base, lax, flexuose, fragile, 

 slightly striate, containing a pith when young, apex white mealy. Gills 

 fuliginous-olivaceous, adnate, subventricose, 4-6 mm. broad, crowded 

 often veined. Spores white, "elliptical, 6-7 x 3-4/x, smooth. Cystidia 

 none" Rick. Smell strong of new meal. On the ground and on pine 

 needles. Feb. Rare. 



1065. C. mephitica Fr. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. n, t. 14. 



Mephitis, a noxious exhalation from the ground. 

 P. 1-5-4 cm., greyish ochre, becoming whitish, fleshy, convex, sub- 

 umbonate, hygrophanous, smooth, dry, adpressedly and innately silky. 

 St. 5-7 cm. x 2-5 mm., grey, filiform, equal, rigid, pruinosely velvety 

 with white fiocci, base enlarged, covered with the white mycelium. 

 Gills grey, obtusely adnate, separating from the St., attenuated in 

 front, 47 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh yellowish, thin. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 7-8 x 4/z. Smell strong of new meal. Amongst pine needles 

 in woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1066. C. inolens Fr. Inolescens, growing in. 



P. 25 cm., livid, becoming pale tan and slightly silky when dry, but 

 opaque, slightly fleshy, campanulato-convex, then plane, obtusely and 

 broadly umbonate, hygrophanous, very smooth ; margin inflexed, then 

 expanded, striate, undulate. St. 5-8 cm. x 2-8 mm., concolorous, be- 

 coming pale when dry, rigid, equal, often compressed, undulated, apex 

 white-squamulose, base white- strigose. Gills grey, adfixed, separating, 

 somewhat free, linear, or slightly ventricose, 24 mm. broad. Flesh 

 greyish, thin. Spores white, elliptical, 7 x 4 5/*, 1-guttulate. Smell 

 of new meal. Pine woods, and under conifers. Sept. Nov. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



1067. C. plexipes Fr. (= Collybia retigera Bres. sec. Quel.) Cke. Illus. 

 no. 211, t. 154, lower figs. Plexus, twisted; pes, foot. 



P. 3-5 cm., blackish, whitish at the margin, becoming fuliginous livid, 

 fleshy-membranaceous, campanulate, umbonate, somewhat wrinkled, 

 slightly striate. St. 7-10 cm. x 2-4 mm., livid, cartilaginous, equal, 

 covered with a network of silky-fibrils, slightly striate, base shortly, 

 and bluntly rooted. Gills white, then glaucous, free, very much 

 attenuated behind, ventricose, somewhat crowded. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 8-9 x 5^. Woods, especially beech. Sept. Nov. Un- 



