to the idea that the brown-centered version of the species may be more northern than the white version. until kerrigan's publication i treated agaricus leptocaulis as "agaricus placomyces," both here and in mushrooms of the midwest ( ). phillips ( / ) apparently does the same in mushrooms and other fungi...
and, lo and behold, there was a -year-old collection of arachnion album still waiting for me to study and identify it. the little sand-grain-ish particles in the interior of arachnion album are called peridioles (the same term used to describe the "eggs" in bird's nest fungi ) because they are tiny packets...
name, connopus, to accommodate gymnopus acervatus. the authors' data found potential support for the idea that the western north american version of connopus acervatus "might be a distinct species" (p. ). collybia acervata and gymnopus acervatus are synonyms. thanks to the sam mitchel herbarium of fungi...