97—COLLYBIA DRYOPHILA. 
Pileus fleshy, convex-plane, smooth, reddish or tan color (yel¬ 
low in a variety), margin even or sometimes irregular. Gills crowded, 
narrow, adnexed, white or pale, (yellow in a variety.) Stipe smooth, 
hollow, strongly cartilaginous, equal or slightly thickened below, same 
color as pileus. 
Fig. !2. 
Collybia dryophiia. (Natural size, but pilei more uneven than usual.) 
This is our most common species and variable. It grows in 
woods, rarely on logs, usually on the ground, sometimes in grass in 
woodland pastures. The pileus is even, or irregular as shown in our 
photograph. We have seen a form with the stipe bulbous at the base, 
also at Preston, Ohio, a form clear yellow, concolorous, stipe, pileus 
and gills. The pileus is somewhat hygrophanous, the young plants 
especially if developed during a wet day being much darker (brown) 
than the mature dr)” plant. 
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