720 THE AGARICACEAE OP MICHIGAN 



756. Clitocybe Candida Bres. 



Fungi Tridentini, 1881. 



Illustrations: Ibid, PI. XVIII, Vol. I. 



Atkinson, Mushrooms, p. 89, 90, Plates 28, 29, Figs. 90, 91. 



PILEUS 10-20 cm. broad, convexo-plane, then depressed and 

 infundibuliform, relatively thin, glabrous to obscurely scaly on 

 disk, white, somewhat shining, even or obscurely striate on margin, 

 not umbonate. FLESH white, unchanging, very scissile. GILLS 

 subdecurrent, rounded at point of attachment, not emarginate, very 

 crowded, narrowly linear, few forked, many shorter, edge entire. 

 STEM 5-9 cm. long, stout, about 2 cm. thick, subequal, spongy- 

 stuffed, white, fibrillose, mycelioid-tomentose at base. ODOR and 

 TASTE mild. SPORES 6-7x3-4 micr., elliptical, apiculate, white. 



(Dried: Pileus whitish-tan, gills pale fuscous-cinnamon.) 



Cacspitose. On the ground, under balsam-fir, in conifer forest. 

 Marquette. August. Infrequent. 



Differs from preceding in even pileus, in narrow gills which do 

 not anastomose ; from C. maxima in lack of umbo, gills not long de- 

 current and pileus not squamulose. Atkinson says gills are broad; 

 in our plants they are narrow as shown in Bresadohrs figure. It 

 is made a variety of G. gigantca by Quelet, and present information 

 seems to show that the two forms run into each other. 



757. Clitocybe piceina Pk. 



Torr. Bot. Club. Bull., Vol. 31, p. 178, 1904. 



Illustrations : Chicago Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull. VII, Part I, PI. 2, 

 Fig. 2. 

 Plate CLIV of this Report. 



I'TLEUS 5-20 cm. broad, rarely more, firm, convex-expanded to 

 plane, dull white or tinged ochraceous to tan, dry, obscurely silky, 

 tomentose, margin even, involute. FLESH white, rather thick, 

 not scissile. GILLS close, rather narrow, thin, whitish or tinged 

 yellowish, decurrent especially by lines or ridges running down the 

 stem and anastomosing, separable from hymenophore, transversely 

 split in age, edge entire. STEM 5-8 cm. long, 1-3 cm. thick, short 

 and stout, solid, firm, sometimes spongy, subequal to subbulbous, 

 whitish, minutely tomentose, often curved at base, rigid at apex. 



