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Collybia retigera®* Bres. Fung. Trid., p. 8, pl. iv. (1881). 
Pileus fleshy, thin campanulate, then expanded, more or less 
umbonate, dry, glabrous, pallid, centre with a tinge of tawny brown, 
3-6 cm. across, margin striatulate, surface of pileus with a more or 
less developed network of anastomosing veins, especially when old ; 
gills rather broad and ventricose, pallid, margin fimbriate, stem almost 
equal, pallid, minutely downy at the base, solid or stuffed, 4-7 cm. 
long, spores elliptical 5-6 x 7m. 
Roots of ash tree, S. Austria. 
The net work on the pileus becomes more visible after the plant 
has been gathered. Habitat near base of beech stump, Home Farm, 
Grange Park, Alresford, Hants, 15th December, 1900. Rev. W.L. 
W. Eyre. 
Collybia veluticeps Rea. 
Pileus 3-6 cm. broad, fulvous tawny, convex at first then expanded, 
velvety ; flesh pale then yellowish, thick at the centre but attenuated 
at the margin which remains for some time involute. Stem 4-7 cm. 
long x 5-15 mm. thick, stuffed then hollow, of the same colour as 
the pileus but paler above, fusiform extending into the long rhizo- 
morphoid abundant mycelium, striate, only slightly velvety at the 
thickest part, flesh somewhat rufous at the base. Gills 5-8 mm. 
broad, deep ochre, sinuato-adnate, distant. Mycelium cordlike, 
branched and proliferous. Spores 7-8 x 3-4 u oblong. 
Caespitose. Found by Mr. W. H. Edwards growing in the 
interior of an old rotten elm stump, Northwick, Worcestershire, 
1gth January, 1896. 
Distinguished by its velvety pileus, striate, fusiform, fasciculate 
stem, which is only slightly velvety at its thickest part and the cord- 
like branched proliferous mycelium. 
Mycena carneosanguinea Rea. 
Pileus 25-3 cm. broad, livid grey tinging to rufous at the umbo, 
becoming paler when old, convex, sub-umbonate, smooth, flesh 
moderately thick at the centre gradually attenuated to the margin, 
white then changing to blood red. Stem 4 cm. long x 5-9 mm. thick, 
grey, yellowish and incrassated at the base, hollow, flesh at the apex 
tinged blood colour, at the base white and with short mycelial strands 
attached thereto. Gills 5 mm. broad, dull purplish brown, edge dark 
purple and denticulate, broad in front and adnate. Spores elliptical 
4-5 X 2-3 py. 
On the ground, Raincliffe Woods, Scalby, Yorkshire, 31st August, 
1894. Distinguished amongst the Callodontes by the flesh turning 
to blood red on section. 
* By the generosity of our member, the Rev. W. L. W. Eyre, we now place the 
reproduction of this species of Bresadola before our Members. 
