Fig. 8 The specimen preserved under this name (KIRK 23) belongs in Galerina. Spores 7.5-9 X 4-5 µ almond-shaped, warty, with a distinct, smooth plage. Pleurocystida 45-60 X 14-20 µ, lageniform, thin-walled, hyaline, with clamp connection at basal septum.

Pileus convex, then plane, glabrous, obtuse, hygrophanous, pallid, disc darker, wrinkled or rugulose and almost white when dry, about 2.5 cm. across; flesh thin, rather flexible; gills almost free, broad, distant, soft and elastic, connected by veins, whitish, margin quite entire; spores 8-10 X 5-6 µ; stem 5-10 cm. long, about 4 mm. thick, hollow, firm, tough, round or becoming flattened more or less, blackish-red, glabrous upwards and paler at first, rather pruinose when dry, furnished with white strigose down near the base, inside wall of the hollow stem downy.

New Zealand. Australia, Europe, United States.

In woods, among fallen leaves; rarely on trunks.

Scattered or in small clusters. Rather closely resembling Collybia acervata, but distinguished by the broad distant gills.