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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Clitocybe clavipes. Pcrs. 



Clavipes is from clava, a club, and pes, a foot. 



The pileus is one to two and a half inches broad, fleshy, rather spongy, convex 

 to expanded, obtuse, even, smooth, gray or brownish, sometimes whitish toward the 

 margin. 



The gills are decurrent, descending, rather distant, nearly entire, rather broad, 

 white. 



Figure 69. Clitocybe clavipes. 



Photo by C. G. Lloyd. 



The stem is two inches long, swollen at the base, attenuated upward, stuffed. 

 spongy, fibrillose, livid sooty. Spores are elliptical, 6-7X4./X. 



I found specimens on Cemetery Hill underneath pine trees. I sent some to 

 Dr. Herbst and Prof. Atkinson ; both pronounced them C. clavipes. They resemble 

 quite closely C. nebularis. I have also found this plant in mixed woods. Edible 

 and fairly good. 



