COLLYBIA. 149 



Distinguished from G. atrata by the papillately umbonate 

 pileus, and by the stem being whitish-flocculose when 



* Gills very broad, more or less distant. 



Collybia lacerata. Lasch. 



Pileus about l in. across, flesh thin; campanulate, rather 

 obtuse, moist, streaked with dark brown on a pale OTOUI id- 

 colour, disc darker ; gills adnexed, distant, broad? thick, 

 greyish-white, stem 2-4 in. long, 2 lines thick, equal, firm, 

 twisted, fibrosely-striate, apex floccosely pruinose, at length 

 compressed, stuffed then hollow. 



Agaricus (Collybia} laceratus, Lasch, in Fries, Hym. Eur., 

 p. 127; Cke., Hdbk., p. 73; Cke., Illustr., pi. 269. 



On the ground, near trunks in pine woods. 



Somewhat caespitose. Pileus 1| in. across, sooty-brown, 

 at length pale and somewhat shining like the stem, which is 



I 77 in * "SSf Not a tyP 10 * 1 Collybia, but allied to C. platy- 

 2>hylla, (Fries.) 



Collybia murina. Fr. 



Pileus 1-1 i in. across, flesh thin, tough; carapanulate 

 then convex, at length expanded, not striate, rugulose or 

 very minutely squamulose, dark brown, becoming pale when 

 <lry ; margin incurved at first, always even ; gills adnexed, 

 very broad, almost obovate, narrowed behind, rather thick, 

 distant, distinct, white, becoming grey ; stem 2-3 in. long, 

 2 lines thick, equal, straight, not rooting but the base 

 downy ; at first sight appearing to be glabrous, but minutely 

 iibrillose under a lens, grey, apex white and rather flocculose 

 when young, hollow ; spores 7 x 4 p.. 



Agaricm (Collybia) murina, Fries, Epicr., p. 97; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 74; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1198. 



On the ground, under oaks, &c. 



Somewhat resembling C. strata, but differing in the very 

 broad, almost free gills, and in the pileus not being umbili- 



-/i-.f.- 



cate. 



Collybia protracta. Fr. 



Pileus up to 1 in. across, flesh thin ; convex then plane, 

 the slightly fleshy dis? depressed, often with a vestige of a 



