128 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Collybia laxipes. Fr. 



Pileus i-f in. across, flesh thin ; convex then plane, obtuse, 

 glabrous, "even, moist, milk-white or with a very slight 

 tinge of buff; gills soon becoming free, distant, 1 line broad, 

 ventricose, milk-white ; stem 3-4 in. long, 1 line thick, 

 equal, not quite straight, rigid, with rufous velvety down, 

 apex pale, stuffed. 



Agaricus (Collybia) laxipes, Fries, Epicr., p. 86 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 65; Cke., Illustr., pi. 184s. 



On chips, twigs, &c. 



Eesembling C. fusipes in the brown velvety stem, but 

 much smaller and slenderer in every part. 



Collybia floccipes. Fr. 



Pileus ^ | in. across, flesh thin ; campanulate then convex, 

 and umbonate, even, sooty-brown, becoming pale; gills ad- 

 nexed, ventricose, thick, rather distant, white; stem 1^-2 in. 

 long, \ line thick, equal, straight, whitish, rough with 

 minute black points, fistulose, rooting. 



Agaricus (Collybia} floccipes, Fries, Epicr., p. 87 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 368; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1168. 



On stumps and on the ground. 



Distinguished at once from other species with a dark 

 pileus by the whitish stem being sprinkled with minute, 

 black, point-like warts. 



Collybia mimica. W. G. Smith. 



Pileus smooth, with a thin separabls cuticle, stem fibrillose 

 at the base, fibrillose striate in the middle, and naked or 

 slightly pruinose at the apex. Gills very broad, somewhat 

 distant, thin, white. 



Agaricus (Collybia} mimicus, W. G. Smith in Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 65; Cke., Illustr., pi. 129. 



Among wood shavings. 



Odour and taste strong like fish. Agreeing in some points 

 with A. cucumis, but differing very materially in others. 

 (W. G. Smith.) 



The above brief description differs in many important 

 points from Smith's original figure, which may be described 

 as follows. Every part inside and outside, gills also, dingy 

 ochraceous, stem reddish downwards. Pileus about 1 in. 

 across, plane, flesh thin; gills 3 lines broad, narrowed in 



