58 AGARICINI. 



C. prunulus. Scop. 



Pileus, two to four inches broad, white, fleshy, compact, 

 convex, flat and depressed in center, dry. 

 Gills, decurrent, white, then flesh color. 

 Stem, firm, sohd, villous at the base. 



The plum Agaric, so called from the white bloom covering the plant. 

 It is at no season very common in our county, but met in open woods. 



Pure white all over except the decurrent gills, which are of beautiful 

 flesh color. The odor is that of new meal fresh from the mill. 



There is a small variety, growing in lawns and roadsides, about the 

 size of 25-cent piece, called the orcella. 



Specimen found in Spring Creek woods, near Trexlertown, 



C. abortivus. B. and C. 



Perfect, imperfect, or altogether abortive. 



Perfect form : PileuS, fleshy, convex, then expanded and 

 more or less irregular, gray or lilac in color. 



Stem, solid, nearly equal or somewhat deformed, con- 

 colorous. 



Gills, arcuate and long decurrent in some specimens, in 

 others nearly plane and adnate-decurrent, at first grayish, at 

 length bright flesh color. Spores angular. 



The imperfect and abortive forms present all stages of 

 imperfection to a complete obliteration of all semblance of stipe 

 and pileus when the fungus consists of a rounded, more or less 

 lobed, mass. — Morgaii' s Mycologic Flora of the Miami Valley^ 

 Ohio. 



The abortive clitopilus is so called from the many imperfect and abor- 

 tive plants. The imperfect and abortive forms present all stages of devel- 

 opment so as to puzzle the mycologist. The perfect is a beautiful fawn 

 color. The abortive form generally grows near the perfect, sometimes 

 surrounding the base of the stem, which makes it appear like so many 

 puff balls or Lycoperdons. 



Locality, Yoder's open woods and jungle. 



