286 Rev. M. J. Berkeley and Rev. M. A. Curtis on new 



5744. On the ground amongst fir-leaves in wet woods, Sept. 

 1856, C. J. Spraguc. 



Pileus 2 inches across, convex, very broadly umbonate, fleshy, 

 at length flat, smooth, brownish drab or white ; flesh white, very 

 firm and hard ; stem 3 inches high, ^ inch thick, bulbous at the 

 base, stuffed with satiny fibres, externally fibroso-cartilaginous, 

 twisted, flexuous, white; gills white, ventricose, moderately 

 broad, obtuse in front, rounded behind and adnate, crowded.' 



Allied to A. maculatus. 



59. A. (Collybia) luteo-olivaceus, B. & C. Parvus, luteo-oliva- 

 ccus ; pileo convexo-umbilicato glabro tcnui ; stipitc leviter fis- 

 tuloso, subtiliter furfuraceo flexuoso; lamellis adnatis. Curt, 

 no. 5728. On old stumps in wet woods, Aug. 1856, C. J. 

 Sprague. 



Pileus 4- an inch across, convex, slightly umbilicate, thin, 

 smooth, opake when wet, shining when dry, olive-yellow ; stem 

 H inch long, 1 line thick, flexuous, minutely fistulose and 

 scurfy, of a dirty ochre ; gills crowded, adnate, of the same colour 

 as the pileus, moderately broad. Spores white, subelliptic. 



Evidently allied to A. trochihlS. 



60. A. (Collybia) semihatrens, B. & C. Pileo convexo rufo 

 glabro ; stipitc gracili solido fusco, sursum pallido pubesccnte ; 

 lamellis distantibus ex albido luteo-fuscis adnexis. Curt, 

 no. 5523. On dead sticks amongst grass in woods, Connec- 

 ticut, C. Wright. 



Pileus £- \ inch across, convex, smooth, rufous, darker with 

 age ; stem 2 inches high, not a line thick, dark brown, pale and 

 thicker above, clothed all over with short soft hairs ; gills whitish, 

 changing to pale yellowish brown, distant, adnexed, moderately 

 broad ; interstices veiny. 



A very beautiful species. 



61. A. (Mycena) intertextus, B. & C. Densissimc csespitosus ; 

 pileo hemisphrerico, umbonato, demum expanso striato; stipiti- 

 bus villo connatis, subfragilibus ; lamellis distantibus, crassius- 

 culis, adnatis. Curt. nos. 1741, 2557, 2558. On pine, South 

 Carolina, M. A. Curtis. 



Pileus 3-8 lines across, carnoso-membranaceous, convex, um- 

 bonate, then expanded, pellucid, fusco-cinereous, margin paler, 

 striate; stems 2 inches high, \ a line thick, fistulose, smooth 

 above and fuscous, pale below and joined intimately together by 

 matted down ; gills white, thick, adnate. 



A very beautiful and singular species. 



62. A. (Mycena) counatipes, B. & C. Dense cpespitosus ; pileo 

 hemisphaerico alutaceo ; stipitibus albis basi connatis; lamellis 

 albido -flavis denti adnatis. Curt. no. 512. On the ground in 

 dense clusters, Upper Carolina, M. A. Curtis. 



