gure 84.--Collybia confluens. Natural size, showing
reddish stems.]

Confluens means growing together; so called from the stems often being
confluent or adhering to each other.

The pileus is from an inch to an inch and a quarter broad,
reddish-brown, often densely cespitose, somewhat fleshy, convex, then
plane, flaccid, smooth, often watery, margin thin, in old specimens
slightly depressed and wavy.

The gills are free and in old plants remote from the stem, rather
crowded, narrow, flesh colored, then whitish.

The stem is two to three inches long, hollow, pale red, sprinkled with a
mealy pubescence. The spores are slightly ovate, inclined to be pointed
at one end, 5-6x3-4u.

These plants grow among leaves in the woods after warm rains, growing in
tufts, sometimes in rows or lines. They are not as large as C.
dryophylla, the stem is quite different and the plants seem to have the
ability to revive like a Marasmius. They can be dried for winter use.

_Collybia myriadophylla. Pk._

MANY-LEAVED COLLYBIA.

[Illustration: Figure 85.--Collybia myriadophylla.]

Myriadophylla is from two Greek words, meaning many leaves. It has
reference to its numerous gills.

The pileus is very thin, broadly convex, then plane or centrally
depressed, sometimes umbillicate, hygrophanous, brown when moist,
ochraceous or tan-color when dry.

The gills are very numerous, narrow, linear, crowded, rounded behind or
slightly adnexed, brownish-lilac.

The stem is slender, but commonly short, equal, glabrous, stuffed or
hollow, reddish-brown. The spores are minute, broadly elliptical, .00012
to .00016-inch long, .0008-inch broad. _Peck_, 49th Rep.

I found only a few specimens in Haynes's Hollow. The caps were about an
inch broad and the stems were an inch and a half long. It will be easily
identified if one has the description of it, because of its peculiarly
colored gills. I found my plants on a decayed stump in August. In the
dried specimens the gills assume a more brownish-red hue, as in the next
following species.

Collybia colorea. Pk. They sometimes appear to have a glaucous
reflection, probably from the abundance of the spores. The stem is more
or less radicated and often slightly floccose-pruinose toward the base.
The basidia are very short, being only .0006 to .0008-inch long.

_Collybia atratoides. Pk._

THE BLACKISH COLLYBIA.

[Illustration: Figure 86.--Collybia atratoides. Two-thirds natural size.
Caps blackish