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pileus is so tenacious, that, in some specimens it may be 

 folded betwixt the fingers without tearing. (Grev.) 



Collybia coracina. Fr. 



Smell strong. Pileus up to 1| in. across, flesh very 

 thin except at the disc; convex "then expanded, naked, 

 hygrophanous, brownish then grey; gills adnexed, soon 

 separating from the stem, rather broad, hardly crowded, 

 greyish-white ; stem about 1^ in. long, 2 lines or more thick 

 at the base, becoming thinner upwards, not rooting, brown, 

 apex pale and mealy with white squamules, hollow, rigid, 

 often deformed. 



Agaricus (Collylia) coracinus, Fries., Epicr., p. 95; Cke., 

 Hdl.k., p. 72 ; Cke., Illustr., pi, 153n. 

 Among grass in woods. 



Smell strong, like new meal. Stem hollow, remarkably 

 cartilaginous, rigid and tough when young and mostly com- 

 pressed, sometimes lacunose, 1J. in. long, 2 lines thick, more 

 when compressed, becoming thinner upwards, not rooting, 

 brownish, apex mealy with white squamules ; pileus rather 

 thin and cartilaginous, convex then expanded, sometimes 

 umbonate, at others depressed, often deformed and wavy, 

 1 \ in. and more broad, even or wrinkled towards the margin, 

 glabrous, brown and shining when growing, grey and 

 opaque when old and dry; gills obtusely adnate, soon 

 separating from the stem and often appearing to be free, 

 broad, scarcely crowded, distinct at first, then especially in 

 deformed individuals, connected by veins, greyish-white. 

 (Fries.) 



The present species agrees with C. rancida and C. ozes in 

 the strong smell ; differs from the former in the short stem 

 being thickened at the base and not rooting. C. ozes differs 

 in the long, slender, flexuous stem. 



Collybia ozes. Fr. 



Smell strong, resembling new meal. Pileus 1-1 in. 

 across, flesh thin; convex then plane, umbonate, glabrous, 

 hygrophanous, greyish-brown when moist and.margin striate ; 

 brownish- tan or pallid, and every where even when dry ; gills 

 adnate, slightly ventricose, crowded, 2-3 lines broad, quite 

 entire, smoky-olive ; stem 2|-4 in. long, 1 line thick, equal, 



