Leucosporee 



Among grass by road-sides, etc. ciitocybe. 



Not common, but when found it is basket-filling. I have found it in 

 Pennsylvania, New Jersey and West Virginia. 



Edible. The caps are rather tough but become glutinous and tender 

 when well cooked. Flavor fine. 



***** 



Pileus white, shining when dry. 



C. cerussa'ta Fr. cerussa, white lead. Pileus 1*2-3 in. across, 

 flesh thick at the disk, becoming thin toward the margin ; convex then al- 

 most plane, obtuse, even, minutely floccose then almost glabrous, white. 

 Gills adnate, then decurrent, very much crowded, thin, permanently 

 white. Stem about 2 in. long, 3-5 lines thick, smooth, tough, elastic, 

 naked, spongy and solid, white. Among dead leaves, etc. 



Taste mild, smell almost obsolete. Stem rather thickened at the base 

 and often tomentose. Pileus said to be gibbous, but not umbonate nor 

 becoming rufescent. Gills not changing to yellowish. Fries. 



Spores 3/A W.G.S. 



Edible. Good. 



C. phyllopll'ila Fr. Gr. leaf-loving. Whitish-tan. Pileus 1-3 in. 



across, rather fleshy, convex then plane, becoming umbilicate and de- 

 pressed, sometimes wavy, smooth and even. Gills thin, subdistant, 

 white then tinged with ocher, rather broad, very slightly decurrent. 

 Stem 23 in. long, equal, stuffed then hollow, whitish, tough, silky- 

 fibrillose. Spores 6x4/x. 



Among leaves in woods, etc. 



Spores 6x4/u. Massee; 6x3/1 W.G.S.; 5.5x2.8^ Morgan. 



Found at Devon, Pa., 1888 ; Angora, West Philadelphia, 1897. It is 

 equal to the Pleurotus ostreatus (oyster mushroom) in texture, but not 

 so high in flavor. Well cooked it is an agreeable and valuable food. 



C. pithyopll'ila Seer. Gr. pine-loving. Pileus 2-3 in. broad, dead- 

 white when moist, shining whitish when dry, fleshy but thin, rather 

 plane, umbilicate, at length irregularly shaped, repand and undulato- 

 lobed, even, smooth, flaccid, the margin slightly striate when old. Stem 

 somewhat hollow, rounded then compressed, equal, even, smooth, ob- 

 soletely or scarcely pruinose at the apex, white tomentose' at the (not 



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