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7 Taste not bitter, stem solid biformis 



8 Pileus more than 4 cm broad trogii 



8 Pileus not more than 4 cm broad 9 



9 Plant odorous 10 



9 Plant inodorous II 



ID Stem solid aperta 



10 Stem stuffed or hollow albidula 



1 1 Pileus umbilicate, shining hirneola 



1 1 Pileus not umbilicate, not shining sudorifica 



12 Growing on wood 13 



12 Growing on the ground or among fallen leaves 14 



13 Pileus dry truncicola 



13 Pileus moist when young or in wet weather leptoloma 



14 Pileus dry albissima 



14 Pileus moist when young or in wet weather 15 



15 Stem brown fuscipes 



15 Stem not brown, white or whitish 16 



16 Stem fibrillosely reticulate subcyathiformis 



16 Stem not fibrillosely reticulate 17 



17 Pileus more than 5 cm broad 18 



17 Pileus less than 5 cm broad 21 



18 Stem solid 19 



18 Stem stuffed or hollow 20 



19 Lamellae very close, color white, persistent cerussata 



19 Lamellae white becoming pallid difformis 



19 Lamellae whitish robusta 



20 Lamellae becoming yellowish with age phyllophila 



20 Lamellae persistently white pithyophila 



21 Taste acrid gallinacea 



21 Taste not acrid 22 



22 Stem bulbously thickened at the base regularis 



22 Stem not bulbously thickened at the base 23 



23 Stem glabrous, shining, hollow candicans 



23 Stem fibrous, pruinose or mealy above, stuffed dealbata 



Clitocybe media Pk. 



INTERMEDIATE CLITOCYBE 



N. Y. State' Mus. Rep't 48, p.173, pl.23, fig.1-7 

 Pileus fleshy, convex becoming plane or slightly depressed in the 

 center, often wavy or irregular on the margin, not polished, grayish 

 brown or blackish brown, flesh white, taste mild; lamellae broad, 

 subdistant, adnate or decurrent, whitish, the interspaces often 

 venose; stem equal or nearly so, solid, elastic, colored like or a little 

 paler than the pileus ; spores ellipsoid, 8 x 5 /x. 



Pileus 5-19 cm broad; stem 2.5-5 cm long, 8-16 mm thick. 



