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tant. adnexed. sometimes 

 notched behind: the 

 stem is smooth, striate, 

 grooved or mealy, 

 straight, slightly twisted. 

 >anie color as the cap. 

 bur generally pale r, 

 slightly tapering upward. 

 and with a long, rooting 

 base. 



The cap is 1% to 3 

 inches broad : the stem 

 is 4 to 8 inches long and 

 3 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 to 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 VELtTTIPES. VEL- 

 VET-STEMMED COLLYBIA. 



( EDIBLE i 



(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 



Figure 



Edible) 



Figure 24. — Collybia velutipes. (Edible.) (From C. G. Lloyd) 



