THE WHITE-SPORED AGARICS 95 



Clitocybe tomata. Fr. 



Tornata means turned in a lathe; so called because of its neat and regular 

 form. 



The pileus is orbicular, plane, somewhat depressed, thin, smooth, shining, 

 white, darker on the disk, very regular. 



The gills are decurrent adnate, rather crowded, white. 



The stem is stuffed, firm, slender, smooth, pubescent at the base. 



The spores are elliptical, 4-6x3-4^. 



These are small, very regular, and inodorous plants. They are found in open 

 fields in the grass about elm stumps. July to September. They are edible and 

 cook readily. 



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Clitocybe 'mctachttija. Fr. 

 The Obconic Clitocybe. Edible. 



Metachjfafa means changing color. rV 



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

 then plane, depressed, smooth, hygrophanous, brownish-gray, then livid, growing 

 pale. 



The gills are attached to the stem, crowded, pale gray, slightly decurrent. 



The stem is one to two inches long, stuffed, then hollow, apex mealy, equal, 

 gray. 



It differs from C. ditopa in being inodorous and having a thicker and depressed 

 pileus. 



The caps are quite smooth and are frequently concentrically cracked or 

 wrinkled, much as in Clitopilus noveboracensis. 



It is found growing on leaves in mixed woods, after a rain, in August and 

 September. When young the margin is incurved but wavy in age. It is quite a 

 hardy plant. 



Clitocybe adirondackensis. Pk. 



Adirondackensis, so called because the plant was first found in the Adirondack 

 Mountains of New York. 



The pileus is thin, submembranaceous, funnel-form, with the margin decurved, 

 nearly smooth, hygrophanous, white, the disk often darker. 



