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Spores ellipsoid-ovate, 3-3.5 x 4-5^. 



Asheville. On old leaves; not rare. Beardslee. 



Blowing Rock. In leaf mould, Aug. 19, 1922. (No. 5585. Coker, coll.). 



12. Clitocybe clavipes Fr. 



Cap up to 10 cm. wide, plane to depressed in center or cup 

 shaped in age, glabrous, straw drab to buffy drab, hygrophanous. 

 Flesh soft, pure white, 1.5 cm. thick near center ; taste slightly acid, 

 odor distinctly fragrant when wilting, rather like jessamine. 



Gills close, 4.5 mm. wide, cream color when fresh, a deeper honey 

 yellow when dry, slightly decurrent, edges entire. 



Stem 3-5 cm. long, usuallj^ 6-10 mm. thick above, smooth, color of 

 cap above ; expanded below into a bulb which is up to 3 cm. thick, 

 white and felted with the mycelium which holds the leaves. 



Spores white, ovate-elliptic, smooth, with a very distinct oil drop, 

 3.7-4.2 X 6.5-8.2/.. 



Our plants have been compared with C. clavipes as understood by 

 Peck (Bolton, N. Y.) and are identical. The spores of the latter are 

 3-3.8 X 6-8/x. A preference for coniferous woods is noted hy Peck. 

 Kauffmann, Gillet and Ricken, Descriptions of these authors do not 

 agree in all particulars, but it seems clear that our plant must be this 

 species. Ricken says that the spores are roughish, but they are cer- 

 tainly not so in the American form. 



For illustrations see Peck, Mem. N. Y. St. Mus. No. 4, 3 : pi. 46. 

 fig.s. 1-6. 1900; Gillet, Champ. Fr., pi. 115; Hard, Mushrooms, fig. 69. 

 Blowing Rock. Under dense white pine growth, Chetola, August 21-22, 

 1922. (No. 5651 and No. 5677. W. C. Coker, coll.). 



13. Clitocybe media Pk. 



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Cap about 5-8.5 cm. wide, gibbous or nearly plane at maturity, 

 smooth, dull and with appearance of leather, slightly viscid Avhen 

 damp, margin incurved then expanded, often irregular; color brown- 

 ish-gray all over, between smoke-gray and drab of Ridgway. Flesh 

 white, soft and spongy, gradually thickening toward the stem, taste- 

 less and odorless. 



Gills distant to sub-distant, slightly decurrent or adnate, 5-6 mm. 

 wide, ventricose, veined, none branched, pallid and more or loss 

 tinted with the cap color. 



