COLLYBIA. 137 



tinge, pale when dry, hygrophanous ; gills broadly adnate, 

 thin, rather crowded, white then pallid; stem 2-3 in. long, 

 about H- in. thick, equal, rigid, glabrous, tawny, very slightly 

 fistulose. 



Agaricus (CollyUa) nitellinus, Fries, Epicr., p. 80; Cke. r 

 Hdbk., p. 69. 



Among grass by paths in pine woods, &c. 



Solitary or gregarious, inodorous. Stem stuffed then 

 fistulose, 2-3 in. long, \\ line thick, equal and often 

 flexuose, glabrous, slightly striate, tawny-ferruginous T 

 yellow when dry, base often with down and rooting ; apex 

 rarely pruinose. Pileus somewhat membranaceous, convex- 

 then plane, obtuse, 1-1 1 in. broad, glabrous, but somewhat 

 rugulose when seen in a good light, tawny or brick-red- 

 tawny and pellucidly striate when moist, somewhat tan- 

 colour when dry ; flesh thin, similarly coloured. Gills 

 adnate, very obtuse behind, and equally attenuated to the- 

 front, not very much crowded, narrow, quite entire, whitish. 

 A pretty species, very distinct, and widely separated from 

 C. acervata. With the habit of Laccaria laccata, there is a 

 smaller variety having the stem scarcely 1 in. long, pileus. 

 |- in. broad, umbonate. (Fries.) 



Cooke has figured a fungus (Illustr., pi. 146) that on the 

 plate is called a variety of the present species, but in the* 

 " Handbook " is quoted under the species which appears to 

 be very different from the present species. The figure in 

 Illustr., pi. 202, called Agaricus (CollyUa) xylophilus, agrees 

 closely with his fig. 146, quoted above ; what these are in: 

 reality, I do not know. 



Collybia succinea. Fr. 



Pileus 1 in. or more across, flesh thin; convex then ex- 

 panded, obtuse, at length usually depressed and unequal, 

 even, glabrous, rufous or brownish, cracked when dry; gills 

 adnate, obtuse behind not much crowded, very broad, rather 

 thick, pallid white, margin minutely toothed ; stem 1-2 in. 

 long, 1-2 lines thick, equal or narrowed at the base, not 

 rooting, even, glabrous everywhere, polished, pale rufescent,, 

 hollow, tough. 



Agaricus (CollyUd) succineus, Epicr., p. 91 ; Cke., Hdbk.,. 

 p. 69 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 151 A. 



