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[Menieri, Boud. P. 13 mm. excentric, broadly subumb. 

 punctulate tawny ; g. fold-like, few, branched, paler than p. ; s. 

 curved, tawny, base black; sp. 18 25x5 7. 



[faveolaris, Fr. P. sulcate, exp. disc coloured ; g. attached to 

 a ring, anastomosing to form cells ; s. glabrous, subulate, bay below. 



androsaceus, Fr. P. 1 1-5 cm. whitish, umbilicate striate; 

 g. adnate to stem ; s. 3 6 cm. black, glabrous, polished ; sp. 7 x 3 4. 



[sclerotipes, Bres. P. thin, convex, edge incurved then plane, 

 ruguloso-striate, shining white, umbil. yellowish, subflocculose ; g. 

 distant, adnate, white, edge fimbriate ; s. filiform, tinged rufescent 

 downwards, adnate to a rufescent sclerotium. 



Passed as Gollybia cirrhata very frequently. The latter differs 

 in not springing from a sclerotium. Collybia tuberosa differs in 

 growing on fungi. 



[Bulliardi, Q. P. plicate, dingy yellow brown ; g. whitish ; 

 s. bay. 



splachnoides, Fr. Inodorous. P. up to 1 cm. whitish, sub- 

 umbilicate, striate ; g. subdecurrent ; s. 2 4 cm. polished, reddish- 

 brown ; sp. 8 x 5. 



Similar in habit to M. perforans, but no smell, and white sub- 

 decurrent gills. 



[limosus, Q. Very minute. P. plicate, diaphanous, whitish; 

 s. capillary, brownish. 



flosculus, Q. P. white, umbil. sulcate ; g. adnate, white ; s. short, 

 incurved, bay, apex pale. 



Curreyi, B. & Br. P. up to 1 cm. pale rufous, coarsely striate, 

 umb. tawny; g. attached to collar; s. 2 3 cm. polished, blackish, 

 apex white ; sp. 9 x 5 6. 



* * Stem velvety or pilose. 



perforans, Fr. Foetid. P. up to 1 cm. whitish or tinged rufous, 

 plane, not striate, rugulose ; g. adnate ; s. 2 3 cm. minutely velvety, 

 blackish brown ; sp. 4 x 3. 



insititius, Fr. Inodorous. P. 1 1'5 cm. subumbilicate, at 

 length plicate, pale yellow-brown then whitish; g. broadly adnate, 

 simple, unequal, distant; s. 2 3 cm. floccose or scurfy, reddish- 

 brown ; sp. 4 x 2 '5. 



Hudson!, Pers. P. 2 3 mm. rugulose, tinged brown, covered 

 with spreading purplish hairs; g. white; s. 1 T5 cm. with hairs 

 like the pileus ; sp. 5 x 3. 



[him, Fr. P. sulcate, minutely squamulose, tawny; g. few; 

 s. blackish purple, pilose below, glabrous above. 



epichloe, Fr. P. 45 mm. plane, papillate, even, whitish, disc 

 darker ; g. broadest behind ; s. 2 3 cm. bay, coarsely striate, striae 

 setulose ; sp. 3 x 2. 



actinophorus, B. & Br. P. 2 3 mm. umbilicate, pale bay with 



