CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 729 



that ;ill these characters .in- variants of one Bpecies, and have been 

 unduly emphasized. The European plants as well as onrs are 

 edible, tl gh strong-flavored ivhen alone. 



Var. tniisri triii (Clitocybt " u r«( urin Pk.) (Edible.) 

 N. Y. State .Mils. Rep. 32, 1879. 



take the preceding, of which it may be considered a variety. It 

 differs in the narrow, crowded gills, and perhaps in the stronger de- 

 velopment of the fibrillose cuticle of the cap. The gills are white 

 then cream-color. SPORES, etc., the Bame. Eabitat the same. 



Eonghton, Marquette, Ann Arbor, Detroit, New Richmond, etc. 

 Common throughout the State. August-October. Edible. 



I iir. ririilis i CUtoCybe rinlis Pp.) 



Syst. M\r- L821. 



This variety, with the solid stem, has not been found in Michigan. 

 Pries separated it because of information he obtained from others. 

 He never saw it. Cooke and others consider it identical with C. 

 " ,l "'"- Under certain conditions of growth, the interior stuffed" 

 center of stems of mushrooms often appears as if composed of the 

 same substance and texture as the resl of the stem, i. e,, as if 

 "solid," and care must be taken to distinguish between such appear- 

 ances. 



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/'Hi us white or whitish. 



768. Clitocybe candicans Fr. 

 Syst. Myc. Fr., 1821. 



Illustrations: Fries, [cones, PI. 51, Fig. .". 

 Cooke, Til.. PI. 82. 

 Gillet, Champignons de France, PI. 110. 



"PILEUS 2-3 cm. broad, thin, dry, convex then plane or depress 

 od. shining white in dry weather, with s superficial micaceous silki- 

 ness, dull white when moist, even, margin decurved, regular. 

 FLESH white, thin. GIL! S adnate then decurrent, crowded, i 

 thin, narrow, white, edge entire. STEM 2-5 cm. long, _ I mm. 

 thick, even, equal, wawyshining, cartilaginous, glabrous, stuffed 

 then Ik.Huw. curved and villose at base, somewhat rooting am 



