522 MABASMIUS 



dry, striate. St. 5-7-5 cm. x 4 mm., dark red, apex paler, firm, tough, 

 often compressed, shining, pruinose when dry, base white strigose. 

 Gills whitish, becoming flesh colour, separating free, broad, lax, con- 

 nected by veins, subdistant. Flesh concolorous. Spores white, pip- 

 shaped, 6 x 3/it. Taste mild. Edible. Deciduous woods, and heaths. 

 Sept. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



1718. M. undatus (Berk.) Quel. (= Collybia undata Berk. ; Collybia 

 vertirugis Cke.) Cke. Ulus. no. 193, t. 149, upper figs., as Collybia 

 vertirugis Cke. Undatus, waved. 



P. 1-2 cm., dull brown, or cinereous, campanulate, then convexo- 

 plane, tough, submembranaceous, minutely pulverulent, radiato- 

 wrinkled. St. 56 cm. x 2-3 mm., rufous, apex whitish, sometimes 

 compressed, minutely velvety, base strigose. Gills white with a yellowish 

 tinge, adnate, connected by veins, subdistant, broad. Spores white, 

 subglobose, 6-7 x 4-5/z, apiculate at the one end. On dead, and cut 

 off bracken stems. Sept. Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



1719. M. hariolorum (DC.) Quel. (= Collybia hariolorum (DC.) Fr. ; 

 Collybia confluens (Pers.) Fr. sec. Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 194, 

 t. 150, lower figs., as Collybia confluens Pers. 



Hariolus, a soothsayer. 



P. 2-3 cm., rufescent, then flesh coloured, and finally whitish when 

 dry, submembranaceous, tough, pliant, campanulato-convex, then 

 flattened, obtuse, rather depressed. St. 7-12 cm. x 2-4 mm., flesh 

 colour, or purplish, cartilaginous, equal, often compressed, pulverulent 

 with white villose down, confluent at the base; apex pallid, naked. Gills 

 flesh colour, then whitish, linear, narrow, slightly adnexed, then free, 

 somewhat crowded. Spores white, elliptical, 5-7 x 3-4/1., 1-guttulate. 

 Cystidia "on edge of gill moniliform, 50-65 x 10-12 /i" Rick. Fascicu- 

 late. Amongst dead leaves in deciduous woods. June Dec. Com- 

 mon, (v.v.) 



1720. M. ingratus (Schum.) Quel. (= Collybia ingrata (Schum.) Fr.) 

 Fr. Icon. t. 64, fig. 1, as Collybia ingrata (Schum.) Fr. 



Ingratus, unpleasant. 



P. 2-6 cm., dingy fuscous-tan, or reddish, becoming whitish flesh 

 colour, slightly fleshy, pliant, globoso-campanulate, then expanded, 

 umbonate. St. 4-10 cm. x 2-8 mm., fuscous, or purplish, cartilagi- 

 nous, twisted, covered with a white pruina, often compressed, villose 

 internally, apex white mealy. Gills reddish brick colour, becoming 

 pallid, free, very crowded, narrow. Flesh reddish, or the same colour 

 as the pileus. Spores white, "lanceolate-fusiform, 7-8 x 3-4 /n. Cys- 

 tidia none" Rick. Smell mouldy, taste bitter. Caespitose. On dead 

 twigs in woods, and in damp places. Aug. Oct. Uncommon. 



