Agaricacese 



Clitocybe. This fungus is quite plentiful in Pennsylvania and in open oak woods 

 in New Jersey. Its size and sometimes gregarious growth give it a 

 permanent food value. Its texture is coarse, but when cooked it is 

 highly satisfactory. 



C. gallina'cea Scop.- t -/w//ww f a hen. Application not apparent. 

 White; acrid. Pileus 1-1% in. across, rather fleshy at the disk, mar- 

 gin thin; convex then depressed, but not funnel-shaped, even, dry, 

 opaque. Gills slightly decurrent, narrow, crowded, thin. Stem about 

 1% in. long, 2 lines thick, equal, even, solid. Among grass, moss, etc. 



Resembling C. dealbata in form, but smaller, opaque, dingy-white, 

 taste somewhat acrid. Stem solid, but not cartilaginous, about 2 in. 

 long, equal, ascending or flexuous, excentric, at first floccosely mealy, 

 always opaque, white. Pileus slightly fleshy, convex then plane, not 

 depressed, obtuse, % i in. broad, unequal, dry, pruinosely hoary; 

 flesh white, compact, but thin. Gills adnato-decurrent, thin, crowded, 

 plane. Fries. 



It loses its acridity in cooking and is quite equal to C. dealbata. 



C. tmnci'cola Pk. truncus, trunk of a tree. Pileus thin, firm, 

 expanded or slightly depressed in the center, smooth, dry, white. Gills 

 narrow, thin, crowded, adnate-decurrent. Stem equal, stuffed, smooth, 

 often excentric and curved, whitish. 



Plant I in. high. Pileus I in. broad. Stem I line thick. 



Trunks of frondose trees, especially maples. Croghan. September. 

 Peck, 26th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Spores SxS.S/* Morgan. 



Found on maple trees in West Philadelphia, Pa. Edible. Good 

 quality. 



II. DIFFOR'MES. 



C. decas'tes Fr. Gr. a decade; a number of ten. From the stems 

 being often joined in bundles of about ten. Densely cespitose. Pileus 

 512 in. across, soon almost plane, disk gibbous or obtuse; margin at 

 first shortly incurved, then expanded, very much waved and often lobed, 

 even, glabrous, dingy-brown or livid when moist, pale clay-color when 

 dry. Flesh exceedingly thin except at the disk, whitish. Stem 4-7 

 in. long, % \% in. thick, usually slightly thinner upward, rather soft, 



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