REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 191 I 6? 



Gregarious or cespitose. Grassy ground by roadsides and in 

 pastures. Otsego co. September. Rare. 



Clitocybe albidula Pk. 



WHITISH CLITOCYBE 

 N. Y. State Mus. Rep't 53, p. 841, pi. C, fig. 16-20 as C. centralis Pk. 



Pileus thin, convex or nearly plane becoming umbilicate or cen- 

 trally depressed, glabrous, whitish tinged with brown wholly or in 

 the center only and faintly striatulate on the margin when moist, 

 whitish when dry, flesh whitish, taste and odor farinaceous ; lamellae 

 thin, close, adnate or slightly decurrent, whitish ; stem short, equal, 

 glabrous or slightly pruinose, stuffed or hollow, colored like the 

 pileus ; spores minute, ellipsoid, 5-6 x 2.5-3 /*• 



Pileus 1-3 cm broad ; stem 2-4 cm long, 2-4 mm thick. 



Gregarious. In pine or mixed woods. September and October. 

 Common. 



Clitocybe centralis Pk. differs from the type only in 

 having the center of the moist pileus sometimes tinged with brown. 

 It is therefore united with it. 



Clitocybe hirneola Fr. 



LITTLE JUG CLITOCYBE 



Sylloge V, p. 145 



Pileus thin, broadly convex becoming plane or nearly so, centrally 

 depressed or umbilicate, even, shining, dry, tough, involute on the 

 margin, gray or whitish, flesh white; lamellae thin, rather broad, 

 slightly decurrent, whitish gray ; stem slender, tough, equal, sub- 

 flexuous, stuffed, glabrous, similar to the pileus in color, white 

 pruinose or mealy at the top ; spores ellipsoid, grayish white, 5x3/1. 



Pileus 6-10 mm broad ; stem 2-4 cm long, 1-2 mm thick. 



Scattered or gregarious. Among mosses. Essex co. September. 

 Rare. Found but once. 



A small species, the pileus scarcely reaching 12 mm in diameter. 



Clitocybe sudorifica (Pk.) 



SUDORIFIC CLITOCYBE 

 Plate VII, fig. 1-6 

 Pileus fleshy but thin, broadly convex or nearly plane, often be- 

 coming slightly depressed in the center or umbilicate, irregular and 



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