62 AGARICACE^ Collybia 



236. C. xylophila Gill. (Gr. xulon, timber, p kilos, loving) a. 



P. campanulate, subpapillate, very thin, ivory-white ; mid. ivory- 

 buff. St. ivory-buff, pale yellowish-brown within. G. adnate 

 with a tooth, white. 



Gregarious, caespitose. Stumps and rotten trunks of elm, etc. Sept. 

 3J X 3 X | in. 



b. Vestipedes. 



237. C. velutipes Qudl. (from the velvety stem ; velhis, fleece, pes, a 



foot) a b c. 



P. plane, fleshy, viscid, yellow ; mid. brown. St. yellow above, 

 brown and almost black towards base, or wholly brown. 

 G. adnate or adnexed, pallid white or yellowish. 



Caespitose. Taste agreeable. Trunks, stumps, sometimes on timber ; 

 common. Aug.-April. 2 X 2| X ^ in. Sometimes springs from a 

 luxuriant golden byssoid mycelium (Ozoneum auricomum Link), some- 

 times from thick cord-like, branching and deeply rooting mycelium or 

 from a sclerotium. See 1569. The var. rubescens Sacc. becomes foxy- 

 spotted. 



238. C. laxipes Quel. (from the lax stem; laxus, lax, pes, a 



foot) a b. 

 P. convexo-plane, moist, white. St. white above, rich brown 



below. G. adnexo-free, white. 

 On wood, chips, twigs. Feb. ^ X 3^ X ^ in. 



239. C. mimiea Sacc. (from its resemblance to 709) a b. 



P. flat, thin, smooth, with a separable cuticle, pale yellow-buff; 

 mid. buff-brownish. St. solid, apex subpruinose, with brownish 

 bark, attenuate downwards, fibrilloso-strigose at base, yellow- 

 buff above, deep brown below. G. adnate with a tooth. 



Taste and odour strong of fish. On deal-shavings. Nov. if X 2 X | in. 



240. C. floeeipes, Gill, (from the floccose-woolly stem; floccosus, 



floccose, pes, a foot) a b. 

 P. plane, umbonate, deep umber. St. hollow, black pnnctato- 



floccose on a white ground. G. adnexed, white. 

 On the ground and about trunks. Sept. l X 2 



241. C. vertirugis Sacc. (from the rugose pileus ; vertex, the top, ruga, 



a wrinkle) a b c. 

 P. convexo-plane, radiato- wrinkled, minutely pulverulent, brown- 



ashy or indigo-lead colour. St. strigose at base, brown, paler 



above. G. adnate, whitish. 

 Rootstocks of dead ferns, twigs, stumps, etc. Sept.-Oct. $ x 3& X ^ in. 



242. C. stipitaria Gill, (from its habitat ; stipes, a stem) a b c. 



P. umbilicato-plane, velvety or fibrillose ; mid. pale ochre to 

 sienna; marg. whitish. St. tough, fibrilloso-shaggy, light to 

 dark sienna. G. adnexo-free, white. 



Frequent. July-Nov. f x if x ^ in. 



