CLASSIFICATION OP AGARK E 711 



•••QUla whitish. 



784. Clitocybe adirondackensis I'k. (Edible 



X. Y. State Cab. Rep. 23, L872. 



Illustrations: N. Y. State Mus. Rep. 54, PL 69, L901. 

 Hard, Mushrooms, Fig. 71, p. 97, L908. 



PILEUS 2-5 cm. broad, thin, convex then plane and umbilicato 

 depressed to Lnfundibuliform, glabrous, hygrophanous, white or 

 tinged tan-color, margin al firsl decurved, then elevated, even, 

 with a narrow zone near the edge when moist. FLESH whin-, thin. 

 GILLS long decurrent, crowded, very narrow, thin, white. STEM 

 3-7 cm. Long, _l nun. thick, cylindrical, glabrous, stuffed then hol- 

 low, even, white or whitish, mycelioid-thickened ;it the base. 



SPORES minute, elliptical-ovate, s th, l 5.5 s :'»:'..."> micr. TASTE 



"like thai <>l' 1 1 1 1 - common mushroom," Peck. 



(Dried: Cap and gills ochraeeous-tan, stem paler.) 



Gregarious or subcaespitose among leaves, etc., in frondose and 

 mixed woods. Ann Arbor, Marquette, Detroit. Frequent. Augusl 

 ( October. 



The characters are well shown in Dr. Fischer's photograph in 

 Hard's hook. The crowded aarrow .uills. the dingy white color 

 of the cap varying into a circular zone aear the edge, and the 

 stuffed stem distinguish the plant, it seems to be quite common on 

 wooded hillsides of sout liern Michigan. It approaches C. eccentrica. 



785. Clitocybe eccentrica Pk. 

 Bull. Torr. Bot Club, Vol. 25, p. 321, L898. 



PILEUS 2-5 cm. broad, convexo-plane, umbilicate then Lnfundi- 

 buliform and turbinate, glabrous, Bubhygrophanous, watery-white 



and shining when moist, sometimes tinged ochraci s, buff whitish 



when dry, the thin surface layer slightly differentiated into hum 

 subgelatinous cells, the thin margin even, often lobed, split and 

 finally recurved. FLESH thin, whitish. <;ild>s shortdecurrent 

 from beginning, very crowded, narrow, somewhat forked, dingy- 

 white. STEM 2 l em. long, 2 l mm. thick, slender, equal, stuffed, 

 fibrous, elastic, whitish, pruinose above, base inserted by " tuft of 

 strigost hairs and continued into tin substratum by long white 



