CLASSIFICATION OP AGARICS 717 



Scattered, on the ground og leaves in lo* frondose * Is. 



September. New Richn d. Infrequent. 



■This is one of a Dumber of similar Bpecies, in this case well 

 marked by the very crowded and narrow whitish -ill-, the watery 

 wllil '' color and the hick of odor. C. albidula Pk. differs mainly in 

 its farinaceous odor. C. compressives Pk. can probably be differ 

 entiated by its close rather than very crowded gills and bj the 

 compressed stem; both of Peck's Bpecies are Baid to have the caps 

 tinged brownish when moist, and doI shining-white (candicans) 

 as in C. angustissima. 



8UBGENI 8 LACCAB1 I. Spores globose, echinulate; pileus 

 usually minutely scaly <»r floccose. 



794. Clitocybe laccata IV. Kmiui 

 i Laccaria laccata I 

 Syst. Myc, L821. 



Illustrations: \. Y. State Mus. Rep. is, pi. 25 1896. 

 Murrill, Mycologia, Vol. 3, PI. Hi. Pig. I. 

 Hard. Mushrooms, Fig. 76, 77. p. 105, 1908. 

 Cooke, 111., PL 139. 

 Patouillard, Tab. Analyt, No. n>l. 

 Gillet, Champignons de Prance, No. 99. 



PILEUS 2-5 em. broad, thin, convex then plane, subumbilicate, 

 variable in shape, hygrophanous, glabrous at flrst, then scurfy- 

 8Cal y> I' ;l1 '' fed to flesh-red when moist, pale ochraceous-whitish 

 when dry. FLESH thin, moist. GILLS broad, distant, broadly 

 emarginate, tinged flesh color, white-pruinose. STEM 2-7 cm. long, 

 2-6 mm. thick, slender, equal, porous and tough, Btuffed, pah ftesh- 

 red, sometimes striate. SPORES globose, 8-10 micr., echinulate, 

 spines l mm. long, white. ODOB agreeable. TASTE fungoid. 



Scattered everywhere in w Is, groves, swamps or grassj places, 



on naked soil, mosses, or leaves, etc. Throughout the season; my 

 earliesl record is May 5, the last November - i erywhere in the 

 State, in coniferous or frondose woods. Very abundant in wel 

 weather, h is edible, but not particularly well flavored. 



Varieties occur, and the common form shad< lually Into var. 



striatula Pk., var. amethystina Bolt and var. pallidifolitis. V..,-. 



