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■warty, paler bnt here and there towards the margin marked 

 with dark patches as if burnt. Gills pale umber, free, or 

 only apparently adnate from the change of form of the 

 pilens, sometimes rounded behind and then separating from 

 the stem, as represented by Bnlliard, t. 106, they have a 

 rather watery appearance, though dry, like that of a piece 

 of half-drv parchment, connected by veins, distant. Stem 

 2—6 in. long, |— 1 in. thick, ventricose, rooting, paler than 

 the pilens, marked t<»wards the base with little dark specks, 

 striate longitadinnlly, not tmly tbongh apparently fibrillose, 

 often cracked longitudinally and transversely, the transverse 

 cracks extending only through the cartilaginous coat; 

 snbitince within loose and fibrons, the fibres crisp ■;d, at 

 length hollow. Taste agreeable. (Berk.) 



Collybia lancipes. Fr. 



PUeus 2-3 in. across, flesh thick, firm, not watery ; convex 

 then expanded, nmbonate, radiately wrinkled frotri the 

 umbo, dry, glabrous, pale flesh-colotir, becoming ji.illid, 

 margin striate ; grills adnexed, emarginate, very broad 

 behind, distant, thick, firm, np to i in. broad, connected by 

 veins, tinged flesh-colonr; stem stouf, remarkably carti- 

 laginous externally, almost s )lid, but when adtilt sometimes 

 stnfifed with crisp, twisted filaments, striate, glabrons or 

 indistinctly fibrillose, gradually attenuated tjwar.is the 

 base, whitish with a flesh-coloured tinge, base rooting, 

 downy. 



Agaricus (CoUybia) lancipes. Fries, Epicr., p. S3. 

 ■'On the ground. 



Scatteied, rarely clustered; every part rigid and firm. 

 Allied to C. fumpes, but diflfeiing in the radiately rugose 

 pileus and in being solitary. 



** Grills crowded, narrow. 



Collybia macnlata. A. & S. 

 Pileus 2—0 in. across, flesh thick, firm, at first white, then 

 more or less sjjotted with reddish-brown, or s ■metiaies 

 altogether mfesceat ; convex then plane, obtnse. sometimes 

 wavy, even, glabrons, whitish, becoming more or less stained 

 or spotted with reddish-brown; margin thin, incnrved at 

 first, almost naked, gills emarginate, almost or quite free. 



