tween them. The stem is shortaiid not iit all or but slightly thick- 

 ened at the hase. It is a little paler than the cap. The species 

 may be distinguished from the Cloude<^l mushroom by its darker 

 cap, its less tapering stem, and especially by its gills having wider 

 and veiny interspaces between them. From the Club foot clito- 

 cybe, Clitocyhe clavipes, it ditlers but slightly. Its flesh is less 

 soft and s[)ongy, its cap less narrowly obconic, and its stem 

 shorter and more cylintlrical. To my taste it has an excellent 

 flavor, and I could wish it more abundant. It has been found 

 in autumn <>idy. 



The Funnel-form ditocybe, Clitocyhe infuncUbulifonnis, is a 

 neat and pretty sjtecies easily recognized by tlie funnel shape of 

 its mature cap and by its pale red colnr. AVhcu very young the 

 cap is slightly convex aui,! of- 

 ten adorned with a slight um- 

 bo in its centre. As it ma 

 tures the margin becomes el- 

 evated so that the cap assumes 

 a shape somewhat resembling 

 that of a mne glass. The 

 margin is sometimes wavy. 

 'J'he flesh is thin and white. 

 The gills are close, thin white 

 or whitish and decurrent. 

 The stem is suiooth, colored 

 like or a little paler than the 

 cap and mostly tapering from 

 the base upward. 



The cap is two to three 

 iiu'hcs broad, the stem one and a half to three inches long and 

 one-fourth to one-half an inch thick. 



The Funnel-shaped mushroom gTOWs in woods or copses in 

 snmmer and autumn, especially in wet seasons. It is somewhat 

 variable in color, Init is usually a pale red, tinged with buif, and 

 sometimes becoming more pale with age. It delights to grow 

 among fallen leaves, and often there is an abundant white cot- 

 tony mycelium at the base of the stem. "When it grows in clus- 

 ters the caps are apt to be irregular because of nnitiial pressure. 



The Laccate or Waxy clitocyhe, CUfoq/he laccota, is a small 

 species, one of our most common and vanable,yet one most easily 

 recognized when its distinguishing characters are known. It is 

 a second or third-rate mushroom, thin in flesh, not higidy fla- 

 vored, and apt to be tough, but because it is classed as edible and 



Clitocylji' iiifiiiKliliiilifonnU. C. lai'rala. 



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