MARASMIUS 525 



P. golden yellow. St. bright yellow. Gills cream colour. Woods. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. oedipus (Quel.) Eea. (= Collybia dryophila (Bull.) Fr. var. 

 oedipus Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 80, fig. 1, as Mycena galeropsis Fr. 



oiSiTrovs, swollen footed. 



Pale yellow amber. St. bulbous, vesiculosely swollen at the base. 

 Gills cream colour. In Sphagnum bogs. May Sept. Not uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



var. alvearis (Cke.) Rea. (= Collybia dryophila (Bull.) Fr. var. al- 



vearis Cke.) Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 5, fig. B, as Collybia 



dryophila Bull. var. alvearis Cke. Alveare, a bee-hive. 



P. 7-5 cm., dome-shaped, resembling the old straw bee-hive. St. 



1 cm. at the base, rufescent. Amongst dead leaves. Sept. Nov. Not 



uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. aquosus (Bull.) Rea. (= Collybia aquosa (Bull.) Fr.) Fr. Icon. 



t. 66, fig. 2, as Collybia aquosa (Bull.) Fr. Aquosus, watery. 



Pale tan, becoming white. P. hygrophanous; margin striate. Spores 



elliptical, 5-6 x 3-4/i, 1-guttulate. Amongst moss in woods, and on 



heaths. May Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



1728. M. exsculptus (Fr.) Rea. (= Collybia exsculpta Fr. ; Collybia 

 dryophila (Bull.) Fr. sec. Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 66, fig. 3, as Collybia 

 exsculpta Fr. Exsculptus, cut out. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., tawny brown, or sulphur yellow, slightly fleshy, tough, 

 convex, then expanded and umbilicate, unchangeable. St. 2-3 cm. x 

 3-4 mm., bright sulphur yellow, cartilaginous, incurved, base some- 

 times enlarged. Gills bright sulphur yellow, somewhat free (decurrent 

 with a small tooth), arcuate, linear, very crowded, narrow. Flesh 

 rufous. Spores white, 6-5-7 x 3-3-75/u.. Taste strong, mushroom-like. 

 Edible. Gregarious. On old pine stumps, and in coniferous woods. 

 May Oct. Uncommon. 

 c. St. abrupt, often furnished with a floccose tubercle at the base. 



Gills adnate, or subdecurrent. 

 *Stem very smooth, and shining upwards, base simple. 



1729. M. Vaillantii (Pers.) Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 1080, t. 1126, fig. A. 



Sebastian VaiUant. 



P. 10-15 mm., whitish, somewhat membranaceous, pliant, convex, 

 soon flattened and depressed at the disc, plicato-rugose. St. 2-3 cm. x 

 1-2 mm., date-brown, bright, shining, thickened and paler upwards, 

 here and there obsoletely pruinate; base inserted, naked, blackish. 

 Gills white, adnate, somewhat decurrent on account of their triangular 

 form, broad, distant, distinct, simple. Spores white, oblong, 10-13 x 

 3-4/x. On twigs, leaves, and grass stems in woods. Sept. Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



