724 THE AGARICACEAE OF MICHIGAN 



760. Clitocybe decora Fr. 

 (= Tricholoma multipunctum Pk.) 



Syst. MycoL, 1821. (N. Y. State Mus. Rep. 25, 1873.) 

 Illustration : Fries. Icones Select, Vol. I, PI. 60. 



PILEUS 3-6 era. broad, convex, rather thin, depressed in center 

 or plane, yellow (duteous) or tinged brown or olivaceous, covered 

 with dense, innate, flbrillose, minute, blackish or brownish scales, 

 disk darker. FLESH yellowish. GILLS obtusely adnate, crowded, 

 seceding, yellow, rather narrow. STEM 3-6 era. long, 4-10 mm. thick, 

 subequal, stuffed then hollow, yellow, dotted -with minute scales, 

 central or eccentric. SPORES variable, broadly-ovate to subellip- 

 tical, 6-7 x 4.5-5.5 micr., mixed with a large per cent of young glo- 

 bose spores 4-5 micr. diameter. 



Single or subcaespitose. On rotten logs, in hemlock and spruce 

 swamp. Sault Ste. Marie. July- September. 



The generic position of this species is unsettled. Fries first 

 placed it under Clitocybe, then Pleurotus. Gillet referred it to 

 Clitocybe; Quelet to Tricholoma; Saccardo to Pleurotus. Peck 

 name it anew Tricholoma multipunctum } then referred it back to 

 Clitocybe decora, where it is to be hoped it will remain. It is an 

 aberrant Clitocybe, like C. laccata, in departing from the manner 

 in which in this genus the gills are attached. 



761. Clitocybe praecox sp. nov. 

 Illustration: Plate CLVI of this Report. 



PILEUS 2-5 cm. broad, fleshy, dry, convex, then plane 'or obtuse, 

 somewhat irregular, or deformed, sometimes lobed, flocculose or 

 covered with minute rufous-brown scales, umber-brown, or paler 

 when young; margin incurved at first, obscurely flbrillose, even. 

 FLESH whitish, thick on disk. GILLS acutely subdecurrent, close 

 to subdistant, not broad, narrowed toward both ends, whitish or 

 ward, obscurely bulbous, curved, solid, fibrous, dotted below with 

 venose. STEM 3-4 cm. long, 6-8 mm. thick, equal or tapering down- 

 ward, obscurely bulbous, curved, solid; fibrous, dotted below with 

 delicate floccose scales from the veil, mealy at apex, at length silky- 

 fihrillose throughout, pallid to brownish, white within, outer rind 



