CLASSIFICATION OF AGARICS 739 



they approach C. spinulosa Smith, 8 British Bpecies, whose spinn- 

 Lose spores are said to be Larger, as much as 8-9 micr. The type was 

 round near Detroit by members of the Detroil Mycological Society. 

 l found it again in the western pari of the State, ii Beema to be 

 rather rare, [ts yellow color is unusual In this genus. 0. sulphur* a 

 Pk. has a streaked yellow pileus and stem, adnate ^ r ills and larger 

 spores. 



Section IV. Hygrophanae. Pileus thin, hygrophanous, qo1 scaly. 

 Flesh soft, watery, scissile. 



Subsection l. < ' yai hiformis. Pileus depressed then cup-shaped: 

 flesh scissile. thin. 



*(!ills cinereous. 



782. Clitocybe cyathiforme Fr. 



Syst. Myc, L821. 



Ulustrations : Cooke, III.. PI. I L3. 

 Plate r\A\ of tins i;.'|m>i-i. 



PILEUS 2-7 cm. broad, thin, convex, soon plane and umbilicate- 

 depressed, or cup-shaped, hygrophanous, fuliginous-brown when 

 young ;iih1 moist, becoming brownish-gray, glabrous or [nnatelj 

 fibrillose, opaque, margin involute and even. FLESB watery, con- 

 color, scissile. GILLS becoming acuminate-decurrent, narrow, 

 subdistant, intervenose, varying to close or distant, grayish-brown, 

 edge entire. STEM 17 cm. Long, 3-6 mm. thick, tapering upwards, 

 spongy-stuffed, elastic, brownish to cinereous, tibrillose when fresh, 

 the fibrils forming reticulations, tomentose ;it base. SPORES 7-9.5 

 x 5-6 micr., occasionally some Larger, elliptical-ovate, with an oblique 



apiculus, sn th, white; sterigmata stout ; basidia I -cored. I >i >< >K 



slightly aromal ic or oone, TA 8T1 ! mild. 



(Dried: Pileus smoky-fuscous to smoky cinnamon; gills brown 

 ish-gray. I 



Scattered, on rotten wood, Logs, etc. Ann Arbor, Baj View, Mar 

 quette, New Richmond, in coniferous, mixed or frondose woods. 

 September ( October. I ufrequent 



This is an autumnal specie-, and with us always occurs on rotten 

 wood. The Liillv are said to be distanl in the European plants. 



