740 THE AGARICACEAE OP MICHIGAN 



The gills of our plants are never separated to such extent; they are 

 either truly subdistant or rather close. G. ewpallens Fr. is a species 

 with close gills, but European mycologists seem to consider 

 that this is an ecological variant of G. cyathiforme. Ex- 

 cepting the gills all the characters of our specimens are those of the 

 European G. cyathiforme, and I am inclined to think that varia- 

 tions with close gills will also have to be included under G. cyathi- 

 forme. The spores of our collections are all alike, although quite 

 variable in single plants. Barla says the odor is that of hay. Al- 

 though the gills are ashy-brown, the spores are white. Peck has de- 

 scribed two related species, G. subcyatliiformc and G. subconcava. 

 C. subcyathiforme is Avatery-white on the cap when moist, 

 and the gills are white, but the .stem is fibrillose-reticulate as in G. 

 cyathiforme, the spores slightly smaller; G. subconcava has a brown- 

 ish to reddish-brown cap, its gills are close and subcinereous, but 

 the spores are only 5-G x 3-4 micr. I have not seen them. 



**Gills yellowish. 



783. Clitocybe ectypoides Pk. 



N. Y. State Mus. Eep. 24, 1872. 



PILEUS 2-5 cm. broad, thin, broadly umbilicate to infundibuli- 

 form, finely virgate with close-pressed blackish fibrils, squanmlose- 

 punctatc, the black points seated on the radiations, hygrophanous, 

 watery-gray to dull watery yellow, margin spreading and even. 

 FLESH with an aqueous juice, concolor. GILLS long decurrent, 

 narrow, sometimes forked, subdistant or nearly so, yellowish. 

 STEM 2-5 cm. long. 2-4 mm. thick, equal, firm, solid, concolor or 

 paler, white-mycelioid at base. SPORES elliptical, 8-9x4-5 micr., 

 smooth, white. 



Scattered, on rotten logs in conifer or mixed woods of northern 

 Michigan. Pay View, Marquette, Huron Mountains. August-Sep- 

 tember. Frequent locally. 



'I'll'' pi lens is sometimes irregular, and the stem may be eccentric. 

 In (Mir plants the gills are always more nearly subdistant than 

 close. 



