Part 6, 1916] AGARICACEAE 401 
13. Clitocybe farinacea Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus convex, umbilicate, rather thin, gregarious, 2-3.5 cm. broad; surface smooth, 
glabrous, hygrophanous, very pale avellaneous, margin entire or undulate, concolorous, be- 
coming inflexed and often crenate on drying: context thin, whitish, strongly farinaceous both 
in odor and taste; lamellae short-decurrent, determinate, arcuate, of medium distance when 
fresh but rather distant when dry: spores ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 6-8 X 3-5 u: stipe equal, 
fleshy but more or less flexible, with a rather tough rind, pallid, smooth, pulverulent at the 
apex, nearly solid, 3-4 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick. 
Type collected on rich soil in deciduous woods near the New York Botanical Garden, September 
10, 1911, W. A. Murriill (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
Hasarrat: In rich soil, rarely in humus, in deciduous woods. 
DISTRIBUTION: Southern New York and New Jersey. 
14. Clitocybe phyllophiloides Peck, Bull. N. ‘Y. State Mus. 167: 
19. 1913. 
Pileu; thin, broadly convex or nearly plane, soon centrally depressed or subumbilicate, 
solitary, 2.5-6.5 cm. broad; surface glabrous, pure-white or sometimes with a slight yellowish 
tint at the center: context white, the taste mildly farinaceous, the odor none; lamellae thin, 
narrow, close, adnate or subdecurrent, white becoming pallid with age: spores 4-5 K 2-4 nu: 
stipe short, equal, solid, white with a white mass of tomentum at the base, 2.5-4 cm. long, 2-4 
mm. thick. 
Type LocaLity: Constableville, New York. 
Hastrrat: Among fallen leaves in spruce woods. 
DistrrBuTION: Known only from the type locality. 
15. Clitocybe subcyathiformis Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 122: 136. 
1908. 
Pileus fleshy but thin, broadly convex or nearly plane, becoming centrally depressed, gre- 
garious, 2.5-5 em. broad; surface glabrous, watery-white and often obscurely striatulate on the 
thin, soon spreading margin when moist, white when dry, sometimes slightly colored at the 
center: context white, the taste mild; lamellae thin, narrow, rather crowded, adnate or slightly 
decurrent, white or whitish: spores ellipsoid, 6-8 X 4-5 yw: stipe equal or slightly tapering up- 
ward, stuffed or hollow, fibrillose-reticulate, whitish, often with a whitish mycelioid tomentum 
at the base, 2.5~4.5 cm. long, 4-8 mm. thick. 
Type Locatity: Albany County, New York. 
Hasrrat: Among fallen leaves under alders and birches. 
DistriBution: New York. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 122: pl. 110, f. 1-6. 
16. Clitocybe connexa (Peck) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 197. 1887. 
Agaricus (Clitocybe) connexus Peck, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 1:45. 1873. 
Pileus fleshy, convex becoming. nearly plane, obtuse, 5-7 em. broad; surface glabrous or 
minutely silky, white or grayish-white, opaque, margin thin: context with a fragrant, spicy 
odor; lamellae crowded, adnate or slightly decurrent, white or whitish, 2-3 mm. broad: spores 
ellipsoid, 6-8 X 4-5 u: stipe equal or nearly so, firm, solid, whitish, downy or villose at the 
base, 2.5~7 em. long, 3-5 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Croghan, New York. 
Hasrrat: Woods. 7 
DistRrBvuTION: New England to Wisconsin. 
17. Clitocybe adirondackensis (Peck) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5:180. 1887. 
Agaricus adirondackensis Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Cab. 23:77. 1872. 
Pileus thin, convex or nearly plane and umbilicate, or soon very concave and infundibuli- 
form, scattered or gregarious, 2.5-5 em. broad; surface glabrous, moist in wet weather, white 
or pale-tan-colored, sometimes slightly tinged with brown at the center: context white, edible; 
