60 AGARIC ACE^: Collybia 



slightly velvety, colour as P. above but paler, brown below. 

 G. sinuato-adnate, distant, pale to deep ochre. Fksh thick at 

 mid., thin at marg., yellow- white, then yellowish, rufous 

 externally at base. 

 Caespitose. Interior rotten elm. Jan. 2\ x 3! X f in. Rooting base 4^ in. 



227. C. platyphylla Quel. (from the broad gills ; Gr. plains, broad, 



phullon, a leaf) a b c. 

 P. flat, ashy- or livid-yellow-brown to sepia, streaked fibrillose. 



St. not attenuate or rooting, colour as P. G. adnate or 



adnexed. 

 Woods, amongst leaves, on rotten logs ; rate. May-Oct. 4f X 4! X f in. 



Frequently springs from a villous cord-like mycelium. The var. repens 



Gill, resembles 105. 



228. C. semitalis Quel. (from its growing in footpaths, semifa) a b c. 

 P. plane, hygrophanous, sooty-brown, yellowish or grey when 



dry. St. attenuate upwards, greyish. G. sometimes narrow, 

 adnato-rounded, sometimes with a tooth, white, brown-spotted. 

 Sometimes csespitose. On the ground after much rain. Oct.-Nov. 

 3J X 4j X in. Sometimes turns black. Compare 227. 



229. C. fusipes Quel. (from the spindle-shaped stem ; fusus, a 



spindle, pes, a foot) a b c. 

 P. convex, umbonate, brown. St. attenuate downwards, rooting, 



often split, yellowish. G. adnexed, pale brown, pinkish, 



faintly brown-spotted. 

 Coespitose. Considered edible by some persons. Stumps ; common. June- 



Nov. 2% X 4^ X in. Var. cedematopus has a stout ventricose St. 



229a. C. laneipes Gill, (from a fancied resemblance in a longitudinal 

 section of the stem to the blade of a spear ; lancea, a spear, 

 pes, a foot) a b. 



P. convex, expanded, umbonate, radiately rugose from mid., dry, 

 glabrous, pale flesh-colour, becoming pallid ; marg. striate. 

 St. solid or stuffed with twisted filaments, striate, gradually 

 attenuate to the rooting, downy base, whitish or pale flesh- 

 colour. G. adnexed, emarginate, broad behind, distant, thick, 

 firm, connected with veins, pale flesh-colour. Flesh thick, 

 firm, not watery. 



Solitary, scattered, rarely clustered. On the ground. Autumn. 2\ X 5 X f in. 

 Every part firm and rigid. 



230. C. maeulata Quel. (from its foxy stains ; macula, a spot), a b c. 



White or pale brown, spotted sometimes wholly rufescent. 



P. convexo-plane. St. hard, subventricose, attenuate downwards, 

 sometimes deeply rooting. G. rounded free. 



Taste slightly acid, unpleasant, odour not unpleasant. Woods, chiefly pine, 

 beech, alder, moist places. May-Nov. 3J X 4$ X f in. There is a 

 permanently whitish or white var. immaculata Mass., with G. sometimes 

 abnormal, labyrinthiform, merulioid. Var. scorzonerea Gill. Small, 

 yellow ; St. long-rooting ; G. yellow. 



