CLASSIFICATION OP AGARICS 7,-, 



*• dills whitish. 

 791. Clitocybe morbifera I'k P0I8ONOU8 

 Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, Vol. 25, p. 321, L893. 

 Illustration : Plate CLIX of this Report. 



PI^El 8 l... 1 cm. broad, < vex then plane, sometimes slightly 



<l<'l"'''* s '''l '"' obtuse, hygrophi 11s, or at least moist, glabron 



grayish 1, r.»w 11 to grayish-buff when moist, ichitt to alutaceous when 

 dry, somewhal reviving, margin even awl incurved. FLE8B thin, 

 whitish. GILLS adnate-decurrent, moderately <•!•>-«•. slightly broad 

 111 middle, narrowed to a point at both ends, whitish, becoming 

 P 8 ^ ,;l " '" age, thin, edge entire. STEM 2-3.5 cm. long, •_' 1 mm. 

 thick, subequal, solid and spongy-fibrous within, pruinose, slightly 

 fibrillose, tough, colored like pileus <>r paler, straighl or curved, nol 

 slender. 



Microscopic: SPORES oval, minute, al t 5x3 micr., white, 



Bmooth, usually poorly developed; basidia about 20 micr. long; 

 trama of -ills of parallel hyphae, I micr. in diameter; trama ol 

 pileus only slightly wider, all of the trama being composed of com- 

 pact, narrow, long hyphae; the cuticle is not noticeably differ- 

 entiated. Cystidia none. ODOR none. TASTE varies, sometimes 

 slight, when Ires], \\ is slightly astringent. 



(Dried: Entirely dirty white or grayish-white.) 



Singly <>r Biibcaespitose among grass <>n lawns, roadsides, etc. 

 Specimens from Adrian found nnder a Byringa bush and elsewhi 

 October. Adrian, Ann Arbor, and Detroit. Frequency not \.-r 

 certain, as it is probably often overlooked, Poisonous. 



This is apparently a dangerous plain, in the case of C. Uludet 

 there is no uncertainty in its recognition, a- it is more brightly 

 and differently colored than any related mushrooms; but C. mot 

 fera has many near relatives which, tike C. dealbata, are sometimes 

 difficult of separation. Fortunately, do one except beginners, or 

 extreme mycophagists, collecl these small species. Still the fact thai 

 n grows on lawns where only edible Bpecies are normally found, 

 makes tin's ,1 troublesome intruder. Several families in different 

 parts uf the country air no* known t.> have been made -i'k from 

 eating it. Peck reports a case from Washington, D. C, from which 

 source came tin- material for his description. <hw specimens wi 

 sent by E. I*. Smith from Adrian. Michigan. Several persons in 



