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778. Clitocybe pinophila I'k. 

 V Y. State Mns. Rep. 31, L879. 



PILEUS 2-3 cm. broad, convex, then plane and slightly umbili- 

 cate, Bubinfnndibulifoni] in age, moist, glabrons to minutely Bquamu- 

 lose, tan-color to dingj white, even on margin. FLESH whitish. 

 GILLS subdecurrent, close, narrow, intervenose, whitish. STEM 

 short, L.5-2 cm. long, 2 mm. thick, equal, even, solid, ftbrillose to 

 pruinose, concolor. SPORES elliptical-ovate, narrowed to the 

 apiculus, 5 6 \ I ruicr., smooth, white. CYSTIDIA Done; i >;i - i< 1 i;i 

 l-spored. ODOK farinaceous. TASTE farinaceous slowly becom- 

 ing iiii ing I'M he tongue. 



Gregarious. <>n beds of pine oeedles, under white pine. New 

 Richmond. September, [infrequent. 



The plants do no1 agree in every respecl with Peck's description. 

 The stem is solid when fresh and young. It seems to approach two 

 other species, c. gallinacea Fr. and C. pithyophila Fr. From C. 

 gatlinacea, C. pinophila differs in color and habital and in the 

 tendency to become infundibulif orm ; from ('. pithyophila, 0. pino- 

 phila differs in its small size, color and solid stem. etc. The acrid- 

 ity is slight. We aeed more microscopic data <>n these three species. 



779. Clitocybe parilis Fr. 



Svst. Myc, 1821. 



[llustrations : Fries, [cones, Vol. I. PI. 18. 

 Cooke, III.. PI. 281. 



PILEUS 2-3 cm. broad, convexo-plane, obtuse, depressed or cup- 

 shaped, dry, minutely flocculosescaly, broicnish-a^hy, margin even. 

 tlecurved and flexible, splitting when old. FLESH thin, white, soft. 

 < : I LLS .lose to subdistant, long decurrent, arcuate, narrow, be- 

 coming dingj white, at first slightly cinereous, few forked. STEM 

 .'! cm. tong, '_' mm. thick, equal or subequal, even, pruinose, gla- 

 brescent, terete, toughish, stuffed, pale ashy to pallid, base white 

 mycelioid. SPORES 6x3.5 micr., elliptic-ovate, smooth, white. 

 TASTE Blightly but tardilj disagreeable. ODOB somewhat fari- 

 naceous. 



Singly or gregarious. On the ground in frondose and mixed 

 woods. Ann Arbor. New Richmond. October, infrequent. 



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