]922] The Laccarias and Clitocybes of North Carolina 105 



1. Clitocybe gigantea Sowerby. 



Paxillus giganteus (Sow.) Fr. 



Plate 10 



Solitary or gregarious : cap up to 11 cm. wide, depressed in center, 

 the margin incurved when young, drooping at maturity, usually very 

 irregular and much lobed ; surface whitish to light tan or buff, darkest 

 in center, smooth or somewhat pruinose in angles. Flesh white, soft, 

 mild. 



Gills not crowded in our plants, irregular, thick, wide, up to 8 

 mm., many short ones, none forked, decurrent, but ending abruptly 

 and bluntly and therefore somewhat resembling a Tricholoma. The 

 gills are slow to develop and in young plants are very narrow. 



Stem short, about 5 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. thick, the outer part 

 fibrous, the inner softer and often cavernous, usually bent at base; 

 surface smooth, color of cap, pure white at the very top. 



Spores white, smooth, elliptic, 3.5 x 5-6/x. 



A peculiar plant that is not closely related to other species of 

 CUtocyhc. It is said to reach a breadth of over a foot. The thick 

 and irregular gills remind one of a Paxillus, but they do not separate 

 easily from the cap. 



This agrees well with C. gigantea in the sense of Kauffman except 

 that the gills are not very crowded. Ricken does not give the spores. 



For other illustrations see Gillet, Champ. Fr., pi. 124 (100) ; 

 Quelet, Champ. Jura et Vosg. 1 : pi. 3, fig. 3. 1872 ; Cooke, Ills., pi. 

 106; Juillard-Hartmann, Icon. Champ. Sup., pi. 31, fig. 5. 



1765. Low damp woods near pines at foot of Lone Pine Hill, September 12, 1915. 

 1832. In woods loam by branch south of Ealeigh road, Eoeky Eidge Farm, 

 September 20, 1915. 



Asheville. Eare. Beardslee. 

 Eeported by Schweinitz. 



2. Clitocybe sp. ? 



Plates 11 and 33 



Cap 4-13 cm. broad, broadly depressed in center, the margin plane 

 or crimped and drooping, surface quite glabrous, sub-shining, viscid 

 when wet; color buffy drab, between drab and wood-brown of 



