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8. Clitocybe subnigricans Pk. 



Plates 1, 19, 20 and 33 



Cap 7-11 cm. broad, irrcfrnlar, the center plane or depressed, mar- 

 gin broadly drooping and more or less zoned by light terraces, much 

 crimped and lobed ; surface dry, nearly glabrous in places, but still 

 showing in areas a fine felted tomentum, (under a lens a light, frag- 

 mented, inherent pellicle is visible) ; color a peculiar buffy drab with 

 blackish places whore rubbed. Flesh color of cap, tough, elastic, 

 very thin on marginal half, up to 6 mm. thick near stem, odor slight, 

 taste rank and farinaceous. 



Gills close, many lengths, not branched, about 6 mm. wide, adnate 

 or mostlj'' decurrent, none sinuate, color of cap, thou soon smoky in 

 an irregular way, the distal ends remaining light longest, finally 

 blackish. 



Stem 5-7 cm. long, 11-16 mm. thick, nearly equal, tough, solid, 



surface smoothish to roughish, color of cap at first, then blackish; 



base deeply inserted in the leaves and without a definite end. 

 Spores (of No. 3165) white, elliptic, smooth, 4-6.2x7.4-10/1. 

 This interesting plant has been compared with the type and found 



to agree, both in appearance and spores, which in the type are smooth. 



elliptic, 4.2-6 x 7-9. 5/x. 



3165. Deciduous woods by Battle's Branch, October 3, 1918. 



3357. In moss bed by path to Meeting of the Waters, June 21, 1919. These two 

 young plants are undoubtedly the same as above. They show that in 

 the young state the cap is covered with a fine squamulose felt. The 

 gills are sinuate and, when young, decurrent by a little tooth. Spores 

 3.7-4.4 X 6.6-7. 7 fi. 



3361. Same place as No. 3357, June 25, 1919. Spores smooth, elliptic, 3-3.7 x 

 6.2-7.4(1. 



3552. Mixed woods by Battle's Branch, October 29, 1919. Gills very crowded. 



9. Clitocybe infundibuliformis (Schaoff). Fr. 



Plater 1, 21, 22 and 33 



Gregarious or cespitose among leaves in woods or in piles of turf. 

 Cap 4-8.5 cm. broad, soon depressed in center or broadly infundi- 

 buliforni, usually imduhitcly, lobed and uneven, when young the mar- 

 gin strongly inrollcd .-iiid distinctly lined by being pressetl against 



