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Our plants agree well enough with Peck's description and like 

 the northern form they are confined to pine woods. The absence of 

 a farinaceous taste is not a serious discrepancy. Peck gives the 

 spores as nearly elliptical, 5-6.4jn long, which agrees quite well, but 

 an authentic specimen from his her])arium (Catskill Mtns., Peck, 

 Coll., not type, which we could not find) has spores somewhat 

 shorter than in our plants, 2.2-3 x 3.4-4.5/i, (possibly not fully ma- 

 ture). Kauffman's Michigan plants have spores 4 x 5-6ju,, which is 

 distinctly broader than in our southern form. The European C. 

 phyllopliila and C. pitliyophila, which are quite near, are supposed 

 to be larger and whiter. Ricken gives the spores of the former (he 

 considers the latter a pine-loving form) as 3-4 x 4-5|a. Spores of a 

 plant of C. ijhyllophila from Bresadola are 2.5-3.7 x 4.2-5.4/x. 

 Schweinitz 's record of C. phyllophila is probably based on the present 

 species. For the white plant known as C. pitliyophila in America see 

 the photo by Hard, in his Mushrooms book, fig. 73, p. 100. 



Beardslee finds at Asheville, on pine needles, a whiter plant that 

 would easily pass for C. pitliyophila, but as it has all other char- 

 acters, including the spores, the same as the present species we can- 

 not believe it specifically distinct. Beardslee 's description of this 

 whiter plant is as follows : 



Cap 2-6 cm. broad, watery white when moist, becoming pure white when not 

 soaked, glabrous, thin, plane, but a little depressed at the center, often with 

 the margin waved or lobed. Gills white, crowded, narrow, decurrent. Stem 

 white, stuffed, then hollow, somewhat compressed. Spores ellipsoid, 6-7 x 3-4/i. 



2964. On ground, pine woods, Strowd's pasture, December 13, 1917. Spores 



2.2 X 4.8-5.5/^. 

 2969. On ground under pines and persimmon trees, Strowd's pasture, December 



6, 1917. 

 2957. On ground, pine woods, Strowd's pasture, December 3, 1917. A form. 



Spores 2.2-3 x 5.2-7^. 



Asheville. Occasional. Beardslee. 



18. Clitocybe setiseda (Schw.) Sacc. 

 Clitocybe eccentrica Pk. 



Plates 24 and 33 

 Cap up to 3 (rarely 6) cm. wide, deeply umbilicate, surface very 



