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9. Claudopus byssoideus (Pers.) Murrill. 
Agaricus byssoideus Pers. Ic. Deser. Fung. 56. 1800. 
Agaricus byssisedus Pers, Syn. Fung. 482. 1801. 
Claudopus byssisedus Gill. Champ. Fr. 427, 1876. 
Pileus very thin, at first resupinate, becoming reflexed, nearly plane, 1-2 cm. broad; 
surface glabrous or merely pruinose with a slight grayish villosity, gray, grayish-brown, or 
brown; lamellae rather broad, subdecurrent, grayish, becoming tinged with pink; spores 
angular, 10-11 x 7.5 4; stipe short, lateral or eccentric, generally curved, with white, radiating, 
byssoid fibrils at the base. 
Tyre LocaLity: Europe. 
Hasirat: On decaying wood. 
DistRIBUTION: New York and Pennsylvania; also in Europe. 
: ae aguas Cooke, Brit. Fungi pl. 344c (371); Pat. Tab. Fung.f. 432; Pers. Ic. Descr. Fung. 
pl. 14, f. 4. 
Exsiccat1: Sydow, Myc. Mar, 2301. 
53. ECCILIA (Fries) Quél. Champ. Jura Vosg. 90. 1872. 
Agaricus § Eccilia Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 207. 1821. 
Hyporhodimus Schroet. Krypt.-Fl. Schles. 3!: 613. 1889. 
Pileus thin, fleshy, putrescent, the margin at first incurved; lamellae decurrent; spores 
pink or salmon-colored, usually angular; stipe central, slender, tubular, with cartilaginous 
cortex; veil none. 
Type species, Eccilia atrides (Lasch) Quél. 
I. SPECIES OCCURRING IN TEMPERATE NORTH AMERICA, EXCEPT THOSE CONFINED TO THE 
. : Pacific coast 
Pileus white. 
Stipe 2.5-3.5 em. long. 1. E. nivea. 
|, stipe 4-6 cm. long. 2. E. roseoalbocitrina. 
Pileus yellowish-white. 3. E. cinericola 
Pileus pale-yellow. 4. E. favida ; 
Pileus ee or yellowish-brown, 1-2.5 em. broad. aariee : 
Lamellae narrow. ifoli. 
Tenelice bread, 5. E. angustifolia. 
Pileus dark-isabelline, pale-chestnut on drying. i 
Pileus yellowish-brown, brownish-orange on aryiigs ¢. & sil ies be 
Pileus dull-reddish-brown, 2~5 cm. broad. 3 E. mordax. 
Pileus mouse-colored. aN . 
hited = eat pee - E, pentagonospora. 
Pileus grayish-brown or avellaneous. aes. 
Pileus 1 cm. broad. ’ 
Pileus 4—6 cm. broad. ee e ee 
Hes dark-brown or blackish. ee dah a 
tipe green. ; 
Stipe brownish or blackish. br Eee ONSEN. 
Lamellae blackish on the edges. 
Pileus 2-2.5 em. broad; stipe 2 mm. or less thick. ied 
Pileus 2,5—3.5 cm. broad; stipe 2-4 mm. thick. es a et alas 
Lamellae not blackish on the edges. ee EES 
Sah: nee thick. 
tipe 2.5 cm, long. 16, E. Watsoni 
_ Stipe 3.5-5 cm. long. 17. E. sphagnophila 
Stipe 5-6 mm. thick. 18. E. pyrina . 
Il. SPECIES CONFINED To THE PACIFIC COAST 
SHpe : 5-3 em, long; pileus etree dail or blackish. 
jleus grayish-brown, reaching 2.5 cm. broad. p 7 
Pileus grayish-black, reaching 3.5 cm. broad. a6 : = oe 
Stipe 4-6 em. long; pileus dark-lavender. 21. E. Y cea 
TII. Spxecr#s CONFINED To TROPICAL NorTH AMERICA 
Pileus tan-colored. 
Pileus 1 cm. broad; stipe 2 em, long. z 
Pileus 2 cm. broad; stipe 4 cm. long. oe epialad 
Pileus pale-blue. 24. F. ae a 
Pileus blackish. 25. Ez. beens 
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