Leucosporae 



large specimens, the margin remains involute for a long time. Flesh cutocybe. 

 watery, similar in color to the pileus, splitting. Gills adnate, becoming 

 decurrent with the depression of the pileus, joined behind, distant, gray- 

 ish-brown, sometimes branched. Stem spongy and stuffed inside, elas- 

 tic, at length often hollow, 2-4 in. long, 3-4 lines thick, attenuated 

 upward, brownish-fibrillose, fibrils forming an imperfect reticulation, 

 colored like the pileus or a little paler, apex naked (not mealy), base 

 villous. Massee. 



On the ground in pastures and woods, rarely on rotten wood. 



Usually blackish-umber, but varies to paler grayish-brown, pinky- 

 tan, pale cinnamon or brownish; then dingy-ochraceous or tan-color. 

 Margin expanded when old, and also indistinctly striate. Fries. 



Var. cineras'cens Fr. Pileus up to I in. across, thin, infundibuli- 

 form, pale smoky-brown. Gills decurrent, yellowish-white. Stem I 2 

 in. long, iM line thick, grayish, reticulately fibrillose, hollow. 



Spores 8x5 /A W.G.S.; I o- 12x5-6/1 B. ; 9x6^ Morgan. 



Mt. Gretna, Pa. Among leaves in woods. September to October. 

 Gregarious. Mcllvaine. 



Fair in quality. 



C. bruma'lis Fr. bruma, winter. From its late appearance. Pileus 

 about i in. across. Flesh thin, expanded, umbilicate then infundibuli- 

 form and usually variously waved and lobed, glabrous, flaccid, hygroph- 

 anous, livid, whitish or yellowish when dry, disk often darker. Gills 

 decurrent, about I line broad, crowded, pallid. Stem up to 2 in. long 

 and about 2 lines thick, nearly equal, slightly curved, glabrous, whitish, 

 often compressed, imperfectly hollow. Spores 4-5x3-4/4. 



In woods, etc. 



Truly autumnal, being most abundant in November. There are 

 two forms: (#) on pine leaves in pine woods; (<) among heather. 

 (#) Stem rather firm, hollow, about 2 in. long, 2 lines thick, equal or 

 slightly thickened at the apex, at length compressed, somewhat in- 

 curved, glabrous, naked, becoming livid, white when dry, base white 

 and -downy. Flesh of pileus membranaceous, at first convex, umbilicate, 

 margin reflexed, about I in. across, then funnel-shaped, often irregular 

 and undulate, up to 2 in. broad, glabrous, even, livid when moist, 

 whitish then becoming yellowish when dry, disk at first usually darker. 

 Gills decurrent, at first arcuate, then descending, I line broad, crowded, 



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