SECTION 1.—STRIAPEDES. 
KEY. 
Gills broad, distant.* 
Gills narrow, close.f 
*Stipe long, rooting.^. 
*Stipe not rooting, fleshy, thick. 
’•Stipe not rooting, strict, strongly striate 
-j-Color fuliginous smoky. ... . 
fColor reddish brown or tan. 
. . radicata. 
platyphylia. 
. striatulata. 
. fuliginella. 
butyracea. 
Fig. 3. 
Collybia platyphylia A small plant. 
87—COLEYBIA RADICATA. 
For description see Myc. Notes, No. 45. ( Photograph 45.) 
88—COLEYBIA PLATYPHYLLA. 
Pileus fleshy, fuscous-cinereous, convex, then plane, or fre¬ 
quently when old the margin recurved ; streaked with fibrils. Gills 
broad, distant, white, adnexed, usually emarginate. Stem thick, stout, 
flesh}’, fibrillose-striate, whitish, stuffed or hollow. 
This is a frequent plant usually about stumps or on very rotten 
logs. It varies much as to size, as shown in our two photographs, but 
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