Leucosporae 



and the stem thinner than described by Prof. Peck. Size of cap from cutocybe. 

 1-3 in. 



It is a good, reliable food species. The stem should be removed, and 

 the caps well cooked. 



** Pileus colored or pallid, smooth, moist in wet weather. 



C. Sllbzonal'isPk. sub, under; zonalis, pertaining to a zone. Pileus 

 thin, centrally depressed or subinfundibuliform, marked with two or 

 three obscure zones, with a slight appressed silkiness, pale yellow. Gills 

 close, narrow, equally decurrent, some of them forked, pallid or yellow- 

 ish. Stem equal, slightly fibrillose, stuffed, pale yellow. 



Plant 2 in. high. Pileus 2-3 in. broad. Stem 2-3 lines thick. 



Ground in woods. Croghan. September. Peck, 26th Rep. N. Y. 

 State Bot. 



Found in oak woods, Angora, West Philadelphia, growing singly. 

 Specimens few. Edible; pleasant. 



C. gil'va Pers. gilvus, pale brownish-yellow. Pileus 2-4 in. broad, 

 pale yellowish*, fleshy , compact, convex then depressed, very obtuse, even, 

 smooth, dampish when fresh, polished and shining when dry, here and 

 there spotted as with drops, the margin remaining long involute. Flesh 

 compact, not laxly floccose, but at length fragile, somewhat of the same 

 color as the pileus. Stem 1-2 in. and more long, > in. and more thick, 

 solid, fleshy, stout, not elastic, somewhat equal, smooth, paler than the 

 pileus, villous at the base. Gills decurrent, thin, very much crowded, 

 often branched, arcuate, narrow, pallid then ocJiraceous. 



Odor not remarkable. The stem has been noticed aj: length also 

 hollow, perhaps eroded by larvae. It corresponds with the Paxilli. 

 The primary form, which is very different from all the rest, is curt, 

 obese, robust, scarcely ever infundibuliform. Stevenson. 



Spores 4-5x5/1 K.; 4-5^ Massee. 



North Carolina, Schweinitz, Curtis; Pennsylvania, Schweinitz; New 

 York, Peck, R. 51, under pines. July to September. 



Mt. Gretna, Pa. July, 1898, ground, mixed woods. Mcllvaine. 



Pileus 12% in. across, depressed, almost infundibuliform, smooth. 

 Color varied lemon to bright orange. Flesh lemon color throughout. 

 Gills varying in color, usually same color as pileus. Stem all of one 



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