COLLYBIA. 131 



"broad, reddish-brown, changing when dry to cream-colour, 

 at first convex, with the gills perfectly free so as to leave a 

 naked ring round the top of the stem, at length expanded, 

 absolutely umbonate more or less irregular and compressed, 

 the margin when fresh finely striate. Gills distinctly free, 

 linear, finely serrulate, pale changing to cream-colour. Stem 

 2 in. or more high, above 1 line thick, compressed, thickest 

 upwards, and pale rufous below ; the whole villous with 

 white mealy pubescence ; not strigose. (Berk.) 



Pileus 1 in. across, reddish-brown, caespitose ; stem 2 in. 

 high and more, above 1 line thick, pale rufous below, the 

 whole covered with white mealy pubescence. Probably this 

 is a true Marasmius. It is of a much drier texture than is 

 usual in Agaricus. (Cooke.) 



Collybia ingrata. Schum. 



Pileus about 1^ in. across, flesh thin, tough ; globose, then 

 campanulate, then expanded and umbonate, glabrous, dingy 

 brownish-tan; gills free but close to the stem, closely 

 crowded and very narrow, quite entire, pallid ; stem 2-3 in. 

 long, 2-3 lines thick, often twisted, wavy and compressed, 

 brownish, umber below, with white pulverulent down above, 

 or sometimes everywhere, cartilaginous, hollow. 



Agaricus ingratus, Schum., Saell., ii. p. 304; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 67 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 283 (very different to the figure 

 given by Fries, Icon., pi. 64, f. 1). 



Damp places in woods. 



Caespitose, tough, with a mouldy unpleasant smell. Allied 

 to C. confluens, but differing in habit, the stems being 

 brownish and not matted together at the base and not 

 floccose, pileus brownish-tan, and gills although free, very 

 close to the stem. 



Fries describes two forms : (A.) Tufted, tough, with a 

 mouldy smell. Stem cartilaginous, hollow, 2-3 in. long, 

 2-3 lines thick, or broader when compressed, flexuous, 

 twisted, brownish, base not rooting, at length umber, 

 powdered with white meal above, wall of the cavity down.yv 

 Pileus thin, tough, globoso-campanulate then expanded, 

 umbonate, 1| in. across, even, glabrous, dingy brownish- 

 tan, difficult to describe. Gills free, very much crowded 

 and narrow, but slightly veiitricose, quite entire, pallid. 



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