Figure 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, 5–6×3–4µ.
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.
