CLASSIFICATION OP AGARICS 735 



Subsection III. Infundibuliformis. Pileus al Length infundi- 

 buliform or deeply umbilicately depressed. Gills deeplj and equally 

 decurrenl from the lirst. Color of pileus often fading bul ool 

 hyguophanous. 



776. Clitocybe catina Fr. 



Epicrisis, L836-38. 



Illustration: Fries, [cones, PI. 51, Pig. I. 



PILEUS 3-5 cm. broad, pliant, convex-infundibuliform, regular, 

 glabrous, with a gelatinous feel when moist, m>t striate "ii margin 

 (moisl or drj I, buff white, after repeated rains pale dingy brownish, 

 moist, Miii hygrophanous, aever becoming shining-white, margin de 

 curved. FLESB thin, white, toughish. GILLS decurrent, croud 

 i (l . narrow, dull whitish, never yellowish nor cinereous, simple, edge 

 entire. STEM 3 1.5 cm. Long, 3-5 mm. thick, equal, terete, straight, 

 stuffed then hollow, tough, white becoming sordid, pruinose above, 

 tomentose toward base. SPORES ovate, L-5.5x3 micr., smooth, 

 white. OYSTIDIA none. ODOB farinaceous. 



Gregarious or scattered, on the ground among Leaves and pine 

 needles in woods of beach and white pine. New Richmond. Sep- 

 tember-October. Abundant locally. 



This semis in Im' merely a form of C. catina, from which ii varies 

 Blightly. The ^ills are more crowded and after rains no incarnate 

 tint is noticeable. It agrees verj well in other respects with the 

 figures and descriptions of Pries. The plants have the size and 

 much the shape of C infundibuliformis, bu1 the Latter has a reddish- 

 tan colored cap when young, fading in age. C. catina is waterj 



whitish when fresh and the surface of the pileus becomes perfectly 

 smooth and almost slippery, DUl is not truly hygrophanous. The 

 shape of the cap is that of a regular vase or dee), bowl and this 

 character gives it the name. The pileus is more regular and smaller 

 than c. phyllophila although the two species may apparently be 

 easily confused. 



