CLASSIFICATION OP AGARICS 725 



subcartilaginous. VEIL thin, ftbrillose, whitish, evanescent. 

 SPORES broadly elliptical, 7-9.5x5-6 rnicr., Bmooth, obtuse, white; 

 basidia L-spored. CYSTIDIA aone. ODOR and TA8TE Btrong, 

 farinaceous. 



Singly or Bubcaespitose. <>n lawns, parks, etc. Ann Arbor. 

 April 20-June l. ■ Edibility do1 tested. 



Pirsi fonnd <>n the Campus of the University of Michigan among 

 moss and ,ur;iss through which it pushed and which probably caused 

 its deformed appearance. The earliesl specimens mature Blowly. 

 The collapsing veil a1 first leaves remnants on the stems in the 

 form of obscure transverse, delicate rings or Bcales, which soon 

 disappear, lis scaly cap and vei\ indicate thai it is related to the 

 Friesian section "Versiformis" bul the flesh i- aot hygrophanous. 

 It has some affinities with C. incilis Fr. 



Section III. Siccae. Pileus nol scaly oor hygrophanous; flesh 

 not watery nor scissile. 



Subsection I. Disciformis. Pileus convex, then plane or depress 

 ed, obtuse, regular; gills equally decurrent. Stem simple or some- 

 what Bubcaespitose. 



*Pileus cinereous or fuscous. 



762. Clitocybe nebularis Fr. (Edible 



Syst. Mycol., 1821. 



Illustrations: X. V. State Mus. Rep. 18, PI. 23, 1896. 

 Pries, Sverig. atl. a. gift. Svampu, PI. 15. 

 Gillet, Champignons d. France, PI. 115. 

 Bresadola, Fungh. mang. e. vel., PI. -"' :; . 

 Cooke, 111.. PL 79. 

 Michael, Fflhrer f. Pilzfreunde, Vol. 11. No. 84. 



PILEUS 5-9 cm. broad, convex, then plane, obtuse, rarely de- 

 pressed, margin often wavy, even, subpruinose, glabrescent, smoky- 

 brown to grayish-buff, margin pliant and soft. FLESH pure white, 

 thick on <lisk, thin on margin. GILLS Bubdecnrrent Anally decur- 

 rent, crowded, attenuate at both on. is. narrow, white then dingy 

 or tinged gray, edge entire. STEM Btout, 5-7 cm. long, 1-2.5 <'iu. 

 thick, sub-clavate at base, or subventricose, fibrous-spongy and 



