410 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VorumE 9 
solid or stuffed, fibrous, fleshy, glabrous, mealy at the apex, dingy-white, 5-7.5 cm. long, 4-10 
mum. thick. 
Type LocaLity: Europe. . 
Hasirat: Woods and grassy places. oe ; . 
DistRIBuTION: New England to North Carolina in the eastern United States; also in Europe. 
54. Clitocybe media Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 42: 114 (18). 
1889. 
Pileus fleshy, convex, becoming plane or slightly depressed at the center, 5-19 cm. broad; 
surface grayish-brown or blackish-brown, not polished, margin often wavy or irregular: context 
white, the taste mild; lamellae broad, subdistant, adnate or decurrent, whitish, the interspaces 
often venose: spores ellipsoid, 8 X 5 yu: stipe equal or nearly so, solid, elastic, concolorous or a 
little paler, 2.5-5 cm. long, 8-16 mm. thick. 
Type Locality: North Elba, New York. 
Hasirat: Mossy ground in woods. 
DistrisuTion: New York and Wisconsin. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 42: pl. 1, f. 9-12; 48: pl. 23, f. 1-7. 
55. Clitocybe clavipes (Pers.) Quél. Champ. Jura Vosg. 48. 1872. 
Agaricus clavipes Pers. Syn. Fung. 353. 1801. 
Agaricus carnosior Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Cab. 23: 76. 1872. 
Pileus very fleshy, convex or nearly plane, obconic, obtuse or with a small umbo, solitary, 
gregarious, or rarely cespitose, 5—7.5 cm. broad; surface grayish-brown or sooty-brown, some- 
times darker at the center: context white, soft, edible, the taste mild; lameilae rather broad, 
subdistant, decurrent, white or cream-colored: spores ellipsoid, 6-8 x 4-5 mu: stipe tapering 
upward from the thickened or subbulbous base, solid, elastic, soft and spongy within, glabrous 
or slightly fibrillose, concolorous or a little paler, 4-6 cm. long, 6-12 mm. thick at the apex, 
1.5-2.5 em. thick at the base. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. 
Hasrirat: In humus in deciduous or coniferous woods. 
DISTRIBUTION: Canada to North Carolina and west to Oregon; also in Europe. 
ILLustTRaTIONs: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 49: pl. 45, f. 1-7; Fries, Ic. Hymen. #l. 47. 
56. Clitocybe coloradensis Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus large, thick, fleshy, convex to plane or slightly depressed, gregarious, 10-15 cm. 
broad; surface dry, smooth, glabrous, avellaneous, margin concolorous, entire, splitting with 
age: context white, the odor and taste farinaceous; lamellae adnate to strongly decurrent, rather 
crowded, broad, pale-pinkish-cinnamon, becoming brownish with age or on drying: spores 
narrowly ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 6.5-8.5 X 3.5-5 uw: stipe subequal, smooth, glabrous, 
subconcolorous, solid or stuffed, becoming hollow, about 10 cm. long and 1-2 cm. thick. 
‘Type collected on the ground under willows at Boulder Park, Tolland, Colorado, 2,700 m. el- 
evation, July 7, 1914, L. O. Overholts 1890 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
57. Clitocybe Earlei Murrill, Mycologia 7: 261. 1915. 
Pileus thin, rather tough, convex to expanded, subumbonate, solitary or gregarious, reach- 
ing 8 cm. broad; surface glabrous, shining, subhygrophanous, smooth, dark-seal-brown when 
moist, fuscous when dry, margin entire, concolorous, inflexed: context firm, white with a brown- 
ish tint, the taste mild, slightly mawkish, the odor not characteristic; lamellae short-decurrent, 
several times inserted, some of them forking, densely crowded, narrow, white: spores ellipsoid, 
smooth, hyaline, 7.5-9 X 5-6.5 u: stipe subcylindric, enlarged at the base, pallid when young, 
soon becoming concolorous, solid, smooth, glabrous, reaching 15 cm. long and 1—1.5 cm. thick. 
TypPE LOCALITY: West Park, New Vork. 
HaprraT: On the ground in mixed woods. 
DisTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
