24 CIRCULAR 143, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
tant, adnexed, sometimes 
notched behind: the 
stem is smooth, striate, 
grooved or  mealy, 
straight, slightly twisted, 
Same color as the cap, 
but generally paler, 
slightly tapering upward, 
and with qa long, rooting 
base. 
The cap is 1% to 3 
inches broad; the stem 
is 4 to 8 inches long and 
5 to 5 lines thick. 
The rooted Collybia 
may be found in woods 
or on shaded grassy 
places, either singly or 
in groups. The “root” 
may often be found at- 
tached te well-decayed 
roots of trees beneath 
the surface of the 
ground. It is readily 
recognized by the dis- 
tinctive character of the 
gills and by the taper- 
ing pointed root which 
often greatly exceeds the 
stem in length. It has 
always been reported as 
edible. 
COLLYBIA VELUTIPES. YEL- 
VET-STEMMED COLLYBIA. 
(EDIBLE) 
(Fig. 24) 
In this species the cap 
is convex, soon plane, 
sometimes irregular and 
excentric, smooth, viscid, tawny yellow, with margin probably lighter than 
the disk; the flesh is thick in the center, thin at the margin, soft, watery, white 
or yellowish; the gills are broad, rather distant, unequal, tawny or light 
Fiecure 24.—Collybia velutipes. (Edible.) (From C. G Lloyd) 
