402 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLumME 9 
lamellae thin, crowded, narrow, very decurrent, white: spores subglobose or broadly ellipsoid, 
4-5 X 3-4 yu: stipe equal or nearly so, glabrous, stuffed or hollow, concolorous, 4-7 cm. long, 
2-4 mm. thick. 
Typs Locatity’ Adirondack Mountains, New York. 
Hasitat: Woods in hilly or mountainous districts. 
DisTRIBUTION: New York. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 54: pl. 69, f. 1-13. 
18. Clitocybe catina (Fries) Quél. Champ. Jura Vosg. 215. 1872. 
Agaricus catinus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 72. 1838. 
Pileus fleshy but thin toward the margin, plane becoming infundibuliform, flaccid, 4-5 
em. broad; surface dry, glabrous, white becoming tinged with pink or tan-color in rainy 
weather: context white, the odor agreeable; lamellae rather crowded, decurrent, white: spores 
ellipsoid, 6-8 X 4-5 u: stipe stuffed or solid, spongy within, elastic, slightly thickened at the 
base, white, 4-7 cm. long, 6-9 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. 
HasitatT: In or near woods. 
DisrripuTION: New York; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATION: Fries, Ic. Hymen. pl. 51, f. 4. 
19, Clitocybe phyllophila (Pers.) Quél. Champ. Jura Vosg. 49. 1872. 
Agaricus phyllophilus Pers. Syn. Fung. 457. 1801. 
Pileus fleshy, convex or plane, becoming depressed or umbilicate, obtuse, solitary or ces- 
pitose, 4-7 cm. broad; surface smooth, dry, white, silvery on the margin because of the silky 
veil: lamellae moderately broad, subdistant, adnate or slightly decurrent, white, becoming - 
yellowish-ochraceous: spores ellipsoid, 6-8 X 3-5 w: stipe equal, stuffed or hollow, tough, 
downy and incurved at the base, spongy within, white, sometimes eccentric, 5~7 cm. long, 
5-8 moni. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. 
Hasitat: Among sticks and leaves in woods. 
DistRisuTion: New England to North Carolina and west to Wisconsin; also in Europe. 
20. Clitocybe subnigricans Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 150: 51. 
1911. 
Pileus fleshy at the center, thin toward the margin, convex becoming nearly plane, sub- 
cespitose o- gregarious, 2.5-5 cm. broad; surface glabrous, whitish or smoky-white: context 
whitish, slowly changing to grayish on exposure to the air, the taste slightly and tardily acrid, 
the odor earthy, pungent, and disagreeable, very persistent; lamellae thin, narrow, crowded, 
slightly or in some specimens very much decurrent, rarely slightly sinuate, whitish, becoming 
blackish where bruised and on drying: spores hyaline, 7-9 * 4-6 uw: stipe solid, slightly fibrous- 
striate, somewhat thickened or distinctly bulbous at the base, colored like the pileus but 
becoming blackish on drying, 4-7.5 em. long, 6-12 mm. thick. 
‘TYPE LOCALITY: Rye Beach, New Hampshire. 
HasitaT: On the ground in woods. : 
DisTRIBUTION: New Hampshire and northern New York. 
21. Clitocybe tenebricosa Murrill, Mycologia 7: 275. 1915. 
Pileus convex, becoming depressed at the center with the margin upturned, gregariou-, 
reaching 6 cm. broad; surface smooth, white, glabrous: context white, rather thin, without 
characteristic odor; lamellae crowded, somewhat ventricose, short-decurrent, inserted, white: 
spores globose, smooth, hyaline, 4-6 p: stipe subfusiform, hollow, smooth, white, glabrous, 
reaching 12 cm. long and 2 cm. thick, 
TYPE LocaLity: New York Botanical Garden. 
Hapstrart: Side of trench beneath building, in total darkness. 
DistRIBvutTION: Known only from the type locality. 
ILLustRation: Mycologia 7: pl. 165. 
