lieucosporse 



Related to A. laccatus and A. ochropurpureus B. Clitocybe, 



Resembles the larger forms of A. laccatus, but it has a stouter habit, 

 the pileus is more squamulose, the stem is bulbous or thickened at the 

 base, the mycelium is violet-colored and the spores are oblong. Bull. 

 Torrey Bot. Club, November, 1874. 



New Jersey, Ellis; New York, Peck, Rep. 33. 



Haddonfield, Watertown, N. J. Sandy soil in pine woods. Mcll- 

 vaine. 



Densely cespitose. Caps and stems brown, glutinous and so in- 

 crusted with sand that it is almost impossible to clean them. Edible, 

 but not desirable. 



C. lacca'ta Scop. made of lac. (Plate XXIV, fig. 10, p. 82.) 

 PileilS thin, fleshy, convex, sometimes expanded, even or slightly um- 

 bilicate, smooth or minutely tomentose-scaly, hygrophanous when moist, 

 dull reddish-yellow or reddish flesh-colored, sometimes striatulate when 

 dry, pallid or pale dull ochraceous. Gills broad, rather thick and dis- 

 tant, attached, not decurrent, flesh-colored. Stem slender, firm, fibrous, 

 stuffed, equal, concolorous. 



Height 1-6 in., breadth of pileus 6 lines to 2 in. Common. June 

 to October. 



An extremely variable and abundant species occurring almost every- 

 where throughout the season. Peck, 23d Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Spores 8-9/A Massee; 8-iOyu, B. 



Var. pallidifdlia Pk. pallidus, pale; folium, leaf. Gills whitish or 

 pallid, decurrent. 



Var. stridtula Pk. stria, a furrow. Pileus moist, smooth, thin, 

 showing shading radiating lines, extending from near the center to the 

 margin. In wet or damp places. 



A form occurs with a decidedly bulbous base. Gills appearing emar- 

 ginate with a decurrent tooth. 



Clitocybe laccata is made the type of a new genus by Berkeley and 

 Broome. Massee accepts the genus but it is not generally accepted by 

 the standard authors. It is a well defined genus, and a fitting place for 

 C. laccata, C. amethystina, C. ochropurpurea, C. tortilis, which it 

 puzzles anyone to identify as Clitocybe. 



C. amethys'tina Bolt. amcthystinus, color of an amethyst. (Plate 



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