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STUDIES OF AMERICAN FUNGI. 



ECCILIA Fr. 



The genus Eccilia corresponds with Omphalia of the white- 

 spored agarics. The stem is cartilaginous, hollow or stuffed. The 

 pileus is thin and somewhat membranaceous, plane or depressed at 



the center, and the 

 margin at first in- 

 curved. The gills are 

 more or less decur- 

 rent. 



Eccilia polita Pers. 

 This plant occurs 

 on the ground in 

 woods. It is 6-10 cm. 

 high, the cap 2-4 cm. 

 broad, and the stem 

 is 3-4 mm. in thick- 

 ness. 



The pileus is con- 

 vex and umbilcate, 

 somewhat membra- 

 naceous, smooth, 

 watery in appearance, 

 finely striate on the 

 margin, hair brown to 

 olive in color. The 

 gills are decurrent. In 

 the specimens illus- 

 trated in Fig. 143 the 

 gills are very irregular 

 and many of them ap- 

 pear sinuate. The 

 spores are strongly 4-5 

 angled, some of them 

 square, 10-12 // in 

 diameter, with a prominent mucro at one angle. The stem is 

 cartilaginous, becoming hollow, lighter in color than the pileus, and 

 somewhat enlarged below. Figure 143 is from plants (No. 3999, 

 C. U. herbarium) collected at Blowing Rock, N. C, during Sep- 

 tember, 1899. 



Figure 143. Eccilia polita. Cap hair brown to olive, 

 stem lighter, gills flesh color, notched and irregular 

 (natural size). Copyright. 



