Figure 87.—Collybia acervata. Two-thirds natural size. Caps pale, tan or dingy pink.
Acervata, from acervus, a mass, a heap.
Pileus fleshy but thin, convex, or nearly plane, obtuse, glabrous, hygrophanous, pale, tan-color or dingy pinkish-red, and commonly striate on the margin when moist, paler or whitish when dry.
Gills narrow, close, adnexed or free, whitish or tinged with flesh-color.
The stem slender, rigid, hollow, glabrous, reddish, reddish-brown or brown, often whitish at the top, especially when young, commonly with a matted down at the base. Spores elliptical, 6×3–4µ.
The plant is cespitose. Pileus one-half inch broad. Stem two to three inches long. Peck's 49th Report.
This is a beautiful plant when growing in large tufts. The entire plant is tender and has a delicate flavor. I found the plant figured here on the Frankfort pike where an old saw mill had formerly stood. It grew abundantly there, along with Lepiota Americana and Pluteus cervinus.
Found from August to October.