Part 6, 1916] AGARICACEAE 405 
ing buff or brownish with age or in drying, often darker at the center: context white, the taste 
and odor agreeable; lamellae thin, crowded, decurrent, whitish: spores ellipsoid, 7-8 X 4-5 p: 
stipe solid, stuffed, or hollow with a small cavity, tapering upward, somewhat bulbous, glabrous, 
firm, white or whitish, becoming pallid or brownish and striate with age or in drying, 5-10 cm. 
long, 6~8 mm. thick. 
‘TyPre Locatity: Deer Lake, Ontario, Canada. 
Hasrtat: In clearings, growing in black vegetable mold or from buried wood or bark. 
DistRIBuTION: Known only from the type locality. 
33. Clitocybe multiformis Peck, Mem. N. Y. State Mus. 3: 141. 
1901. 
Pileus thin, convex or nearly plane, cespitose, 2.5-7 cm. broad; surface glabrous, whitish, 
grayish or yellowish when moist, paler when dry, sometimes tinged with brown at the center, 
margin often lobed or irregular: context white when dry, edible; lamellae thin, narrow, crowded, 
adnate or slightly decurrent, white or whitish: spores ellipsoid, 5-6 X 3-4 uw: stipe equal, solid, 
glabrous, white, often flexuotts and compressed, 2.5-5 em. long, 4-6 mm. thick. 
Tyrer Locatity: Albany County, New York. 
Haatitar: Low, damp places in woods. 
DistRiBution: New York and Massachusetts. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Mem. N. ¥. State Mus. 3: pl. 47, f. 1-9; Mycologia 7: pl. 164. 
34. Clitocybe multiceps Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 43: 
17 (63). 1890. 
Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, cespitose, rarely solitary, 5-8 cm. broad; surface moist in wet 
weather, watery-white to pale-avellaneous-isabelline, sometimes slightly silky and brownish 
at the center, margin often irregular from mutual pressure: context white, the taste oily, 
slightly disagreeable, edible; lamellae crowded, adnate or slightly decurrent, rarely sintate, 
white or whitish: spores globose, 5-8 4: stipe equal or slightly thickened at the base, firm, gla- 
brous, solid or stuffed, slightly pruinose at the apex, white or whitish, 5-10 cm. long, 7-15 mm. 
thick. 
Type Locatity: Albany, New York. 
Hagitrat: Open ground or in grassy places; rarely in groves. 
DisTriBurion: Canada and the eastern United States south to New Jersey and west to Colorado. 
Iniusteations: Atk. Stud. Am. Fungi, ed. 2. f. 93; Bull. N. VY. State Mus. 139: pl. 117, f.. 7-9; 
Mycologia 1: pl. 1, f. 4; 3: pl. 52; Murrill, Ed. Pois. Mushr. f. 25. 
35. Clitocybe elephantina Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus very large, becoming depressed, cespitose, about 12 cm. broad, the clusters about 
30 cm. in width; surface smooth, glabrous, dark-isabelline, margin entire or lobed, becoming 
irregular with age, concolorous: lamellae adnate or slightly decurrent, very broad, crowded, 
white: spores globose, smooth, hyaline, 6-8 »: stipe subequal, smooth, glabrous, whitish or isa- 
belline, hollow, 7-10 em. long, 2-4 cm. thick. 
Type collected in rich soil at La Porte, Indiana, June 27, 1915, by L. B. Clore, and communicated 
by J. C. Arthur (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DistRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
36. Clitocybe peltigerina (Peck) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 184. 1887. 
Agaricus (Clitocybe) peltigerinus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 30: 38. 1878. 
Pileus thin, nearly plane, umbilicate, subcespitose at times, 4-10 mm. broad; surface gla- 
brous, hygrophanous, brown and striatulate on the margin when moist, whitish or pale-gray 
when dry: lamellae subdistant, sometimes branched, decurrent, brownish, the interspaces 
venose: spores ellipsoid, 8 5 u: stipe nearly equal, solid, glabrous, rather firm, paler than the 
pileus, often with minute white tomentum at the base, 1-2 em. long, 1-1.5 mm. thick. 
TyPE Locality: Oneida, New York. 
Hasirat: Among lichens. 
DisTRIBUTION: New York. 
