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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Figure 73. Clitocybe pithyophila. Two-thirds natural size. Cap white and showing 

 the pine needles upon which they grow. 



The stem is hollow, terete, then compressed, smooth, equal, even, downy 

 at the base. 



The gills are adnate, somewhat decurrent, crowded, plane, always white. The 

 spores are 6-7x4/*. The plants in Figure 73 are small, having been found during 

 the cold weather in November. They are said to be good, but I have not eaten 

 them. 



Clitocybe candicans. Fr. 



Candicans, whitish or shining white. Pileus is one inch broad, entirely 

 white, somewhat fleshy, convex, then plane, or depressed, even, shining, with 

 regularly deflexed margin. 



The gills are adnate, crowded, thin, at length decurrent, narrow. 

 The stem is nearly hollow, even. waxy, shining, nearly equal, cartilaginous, 

 smooth, incurved at the base. The spores are broadly elliptical, or subglobose, 

 5-6x4/*. Found in damp woods on leaves. 



