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On logs and trunks of trees. Common. [United States.]
Cæspitose ; pileus 1-3 in. broad, smooth, slimy, of a beautiful tawny colour,
convex, expanded, fleshy, margin thin, sub-transparent ; gills ventricose,
broad, scarcely adnate, ochraceous ; stem 2-9 in. high, f in. thick, incurved,
velvety, rich tawny brown, pale above, often compressed and striate, fistulöse.
—iV. J .B . Spores variable in size, nearly globular, average length, '00027 in.
14:4:. A g a z icu s (Collybia) c a u lic in a lis .
Collybia.”
Bu ll. “ Thatch
Pileus somewhat fleshy, convex, then plane, umbilicate, clothed
with velvety scaies, or fibrillose ; stem stuffed, then fistulöse,
tough, more or less hairy ; gills separating, then free, ventricose,
rather distant, white.—Bull. t. 522, f . 2. A. stipitarius. Fr. Epicr.
p . 87. Alb. 4 Sch. t. 9, f. 6. Berk. Outl. t. 5 ,f. t . Huss. i. t. 68.
On grass, old thatch, twigs, &c. [United States.]
Pileus clothed with tawny or brown hairs, or fibres, which sometimes form
scales, 4-5 lines broad ; stem 1-2 in. long, tough, bright brown.
1 4 5 . A g a z icu s (Collybia) co n flu en s. P. “ Confluent Collybia.”
Pileus somewhat fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, flaccid,
smooth, hygrophanous; stem fistulöse, slightly compressed,
rufous, clothed with white, pulverulent down; gills remote, free,
narrow, very crowded, whitish.—Fr. Ep ic r.p . 88. P ers.Ic. Piet.
t . 5 . f . l . B u xb .ÍY. t.20. Batsch.f. 104. E n g .F I .Y . p . 46.
Amongst leaves in woods. Common. [United States.]
Pileus 1 in. across, reddish brown, in rings or confluent masses ; gills leaving
a distinct area round the top of the stem ; stems adhering to each other;
densely tufted, at first convex, at length expanded, obsoletely umbonate,
more or less irregular and compressed, the margin when fresh finely striate ;
gills distinct, perfectly free, linear, finely serrulate, pale, changing to cream
colour; stem 2 In. high, or more, above 1 line thick, compressed, thickest
upwards, pale rufous below, the whole covered with white mealy pubescence,
not strigose.—A/. J . B.
1 4 6 . A g a z icu s (Collybia) in g z a tu s.
Collybia.”
Sckvm. “ Unpleasant
Pileus rather fleshy, globose, campanulate, or convex, umbonate,
even; stem fistulöse, long, contorted, rather compressed,
pulverulent or downy, especially above, umber below; gills free,
narrow, very crowded, pallid.—Fr. Epicr.p. 88. Berk. Out.p. 117.
Var. B. Pileus convex, obtuse ; stem villoso-pulverulent.—
Berk. Out.p. 117.
In woods.
Differs principally from A. confluens in the gills not leaving a free space
round the top of the stem.—M. J. B.
1 4 7 . A g a z icu s (C o llybia ) v e z tiz u g is .
Collybia.”
Goolte. “ W rinkled
Pileus tough, thin, radiato-rugose, minutely pulverulent, campanulate,
then convex, at length p lane; stem minutely velvety,
strigose at the base, fistulöse ; gills adnate, white, with a yellowish
tinge, connected by veins.—Ag.undatus. Berk. Outl. p. 1 1 7 ,
«0.107. E n g .F I .Y .p .51.
On dead fern roots.
Pileus not exceeding 1 in. across, dull brown, or cinereous, campanulate, at
length convexo-plane, wrinkled in the direction of the gills, tough, sub-
membranaceous, minutely pulverulent; gills truly adnate, ascending or horizontal,
moderately distant, connected by veins, white, with a yellowish tinge;
stem 2-2J in. high, J -1 line thick, strigose at the base, rufous, minutely velvety,
fistulöse, sometimes compressed.—M. J . B.
As Ag. undatus Pries, has precedence of this species, the name adopted by
the Rev. M. J. Berkeley must be given up, and we therefore substitute
another. Aooording to custom this would be Ag. Berheleyi, if that name had
not already been adopted for an Indian species.
1 4 8 . A g a z icu s (Collybia) c o n ig en u s . P. “ Fir-cone Collybia.”
Pileus somewhat fleshy, nearly plane, unequal, sub-nmbonate,
smooth; stem minutely fistulöse, tough, pulverulent, becoming
pallid, root strigose or fibrillose; gills free, narrow, much
crowded, becoming pallid.—Fr. Epicr. p. 89. Buxb. i. t. 57, f . 2.
Sow. t. 206. Eng. F I. Y . p . 50.
On flr cones. Oct. Nov.
Pileus about I in. across, reddish brown at flrst, pallid when dry, rather
irregular, umbonate, expanded, often depressed, sometimes quite smooth,
occasionally more or less lanato-pubesoent, sometimes tinged with chocolate
; flesh woolly when dry, firm when moist; gills very numerous, linear,
free, or only adnexed, tinged with yellow, or of the colour of the pileus, the
unequal ones very long; stem variable in length, J -IJ lines thick, tough, pul-
vernlento-pubesoent, with a long, very strigose, rooting base, rufous, hollow,
woolly inside.—Ai./ . Bi Spores'0001 X '00015 in.
1 4 9 . A g a z icu s (Collybia) c iz zh a tu s. Schum. “ Cirrhate
Collybia.”
Pileus rather fleshy, plane, silky, at length umbilicate; stem
slightly fistulöse, flexuose, equal, pallid, pulverulent; root
twisted, fibrillose; gills adnate, crowded, narrow white.—Fr.
Epicr.p. 90. Batsch.f. 95. Berk. Out.p. 117.
Amongst leaves, &o. [Cincinnati.]
Often attached to a little yellowish, nodular Sclerotium. Stem 1-2 in. long,
filiform, pallid; pileus 5-6 lin. broad, rather silky, at length finely and concentrically
rivulose, opaque, white.
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