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flexuose, smooth, fuscous, mealy at apex ; gills free, broad, 

 ventricose, somewhat distant, cinereous-fuscous. 

 On waste ground, and in open pastures. Ascot. 



269. A. (Collybia) clusilis, Fr. ; pileus 1 in., livid, then 

 pale, grey clay-colour, somewhat membranaceous, rather 

 plane, broadly depressed in centre, much sloped towards 

 incurved margin, even, smooth, fragile, slightly striate 

 at margin when moist ; stem wholly cartilaginous-soft, 

 flexile, stufted, polished, livid ; gills adnate, plane, with 

 a decurrent tooth, not ventricose, white, becoming 

 pale. 



Amongst moss. 



Var. B. minor ; half the size of type. 



270. A. (Collybia) tylicolor, Fr. ; pileus ^ in., grey- 

 cinereous, slightly fleshy, somewhat umbonate, even, opaque ; 

 stem fistulose, somewhat fragile, not rooting, equal, even, 

 grey, everywhere whitish-pulverulent ; gills free, distant, 

 broad, rather thick, grey, paler than pileus. 



In shady woods amongst grass. Coed Coch. 



271. A. (Collybia) Dorothese, B. ; pileus 1 in., at flrst 

 globose, dark brown, hemispherical, expanded, with a slight 

 umbo, then depressed and pale brown, sulcate from the 

 crenate margin almost to centre, granulate, and beset with 

 small bristles ; stem brownish above, white below, with a 

 minute disc-like swelling at the base, then yellowish or 

 rufous below and white above, granulated and beset with 

 white bristles like the pileus ; gills white, distant, adnexed, 

 slightly ventricose, connected behind, edge entire. 



On a dead fern stem in a hothouse. Dangstein. 



272. A. (Collybia) caldarii, B. ; pileus \ in., hemi- 

 spherical, umbonate, brown, rugose, not turning pale ; 

 stem paler, even, cartilaginous externally ; gills adnato- 



