142 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Collybia aquosa. Fr. 



Every part honey-colour, watery, hygrophanous. Pileus 

 about 1 in. across, very thin but tough, soon plane, obtuse, 

 orbicular, not depressed, margin densely and finely striate ; 

 gills slightly adnexed, soon leaving the stem and becoming 

 free, very much crowded, narrow, whitish; stem stuffed 

 1|-2| in. long, scarcely 1 line thick, equal, rather wavy, 

 surface slightly undulated, polished and glabrous, stuffed ; 

 spores elliptical, 6 x 3-4 p., 



Agaricus (Collybia} aquosus, Fries, Vet. Ac. Forh, 1851; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 71 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 234. 



Damp woods, among moss, &c. 



Far. Bulliardii ; Agaricus aquosus, Bull., Champ. Fr., 

 t. 12. Pileus ochraceous, with a brick-red tinge, becoming 

 whitish ; stem tawny-rufous, base fibrillose. 



Intermediate between the present and C. dryophila. 



Collybia extuberans. Fr. 



Pileus |-1| in. across, flesh rather thin, convex then 

 expanded, with a broad, prominent umbo, margin slightly 

 incurved, bay or umber ; gills narrowed behind and slightly 

 adnexed, nearly free, crowded, narrow, white ; stem 2-3 in. 

 long, 2-3 lines thick, glabrous, pallid, fistulose, rooting. 



Agaricus (Collybia} extuberans, Fries, Epicr., p. 93 ; Fries, 

 Icon., t. 67, f. 1 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 71. 



On the ground, near trunks, and on rotten wood. 



Solitary, tough, inodorous; stem fistulose or stuffed, 

 rooting, 2-3 in. long, 1-2 lines thick, equal, straight or a 

 little wavy, even, glabrous, not pulverulent, whitish. Pileus 

 campanulate then expanded, umbo broad, prominent, orbi- 

 cular, 1-1 1 in. broad, glabrous, even, not hygrophanous, 

 rufous-brown, bay, or umber, becoming paler towards the 

 margin, which is at first incurved. Flesh white. Gills 

 attenuated behind and adnate, separating and appearing to 

 be free, crowded, 1-2 Alines broad, whitish. Affinities 

 difficult to indicate, in point of size may be compared with 

 Collybia protracta, but differs from every species in the lar ge 

 tuberculiform umbo. (Fries.) 



Collybia exsculpta. Fr. 

 Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thin, convex, truly umbiliccate 



