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low when young with incurved margin, becoming yellowish or pale 

 Gchraceous and often squamose or rimosely areolate, flesh white, 

 taste mild, odor mushroomlike ; lamellae thin, close, slightly or 

 strongly decurrent, forked or anastomosing at the base, white ; stem 

 usually short, equal or slightly tapering upward, solid, occasionally 

 eccentric, white ; spores broadly ellipsoid, 6-8 x 5-6 ft. 



Pileus 2.5-10 cm broad ; stem 2.5-7.5 cm long, 8-20 mm thick. 



Gregarious or cespitose. Woods or their borders, specially of 

 pine. Onondaga and Essex counties. vSeptember. Not common. 

 It is remarkable for the different colors of the young and the mature 

 pileus. 



Clitocybe illudens (Schw.) Fr. 



DECEIVING CLITOCYBE 

 N. Y. State Mus. Mem. 4, p. 179, pl.68 



Pileus convex or nearly plane, sometimes centrally depressed, 

 obtuse or umbonate, glabrous or obscurely virgate, often irregular, 

 saffron yellow or orange yellow, flesh white or yellowish, odor strong, 

 taste disagreeable; lamellae close, decurrent, narrowed toward each 

 end, colored like the pileus ; stem long, firm, glabrous, solid, stuffed 

 or rarely hollow, often attenuated toward the base, sometimes 

 eccentric, colored like the pileus or sometimes brownish toward the 

 base; spores globose, 4-5 fi in diameter. 



Pileus 7-12 cm broad; stem 7-14 cm long, 6-12 mm thick. 



Cespitose. Woods and open places. Often about old stumps. 

 July to October. 



A beautiful but unwholesome species. It causes nausea and vomit- 

 ing if eaten. It is possible to make it comparatively harmless by 

 heating it in salt water for a half hour, then taking it out and frying 

 it in butter. It is phosphorescent. Large fresh specimens when 

 placed in a dark place emit a glowing light. 



Clitocybe marmorea Pk. 



MOTTLED CLITOCYBE 



N. Y. State Mus. Rep't 24, p.6i 



Pileus fleshy, firm, broadly convex, glabrous, white, mottled with 



darker watery spots, flesh white; lamellae close, narrow, arcuate^ 



unequally decurrent, white; stem firm, solid, long, generally curved. 



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