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Annual Report of the State Botanist, 41 



Spores flesh-colored. 



a. Spores even. 



Clitopilus prunulus. Scop. 



Plum Clitopilus, 



Pileus fleshy, compact, at first convex and regular, then repand, dry, 

 pruinaie, white or cinereous white, flesh white, unchangeable, with a 

 pleasant farinaceous odor ; lamella deeply decurrent, subdistant, 

 flesh-colored ; stem solid, naked, striate, white ; spores subelliptical, 

 pointed at each end, .0004 to .00045 in. long, .0002 to .00025 broad. 



Pileus 1.5 to 3 in. broad, stem 1 to 2 in. long, 3 to 4 lines thick. 



Woods. Albany, Rensselaer and Saratoga counties. 



Not abundant, but edible and said to be delicious and one of the 

 best of the esculent 8j)ecies. 



Clitopilus Orcella, Bull. 



Pileus fleshy, soft, plane or slightly depressed, often irregular, even 

 when young, slightly silky, somewhat viscid when moist, white or yellow- 

 ish-white, flesh white, taste and odor farinaceous ; lamellae deeply 

 decurrent, close, whitish, then flesh-colored ; stem short, solid, floccu- 

 lose, often eccentric, thickened above, white ; s^Dores elliptical, .00035 

 to .0004 in. long, .0002 broad. 



Generally a little smaller than the preceding species, softer and 



more irregular, but so closely allied that by some it is considered a 



mere variety of it. It is said to be edible and of a delicate flavor. It 



occurs in wet weather in pastures and open places. Rensselp.er 



county. 



Clitopilus pascuensis, Ph 



Pasture Clitopilus. 



Pileus fleshy, compact, centrally depressed, glabrous, reddish or pale- 

 alutaceous, the cuticle of the disk cracking into minute areas; lamellse 

 rather narrow, close, decurrent, whitish, becoming flesh-colored ; 

 stem short equal or tapering downward, solid, glabrous, colored like 

 the pileus ; spores subellipitical, pale incarnate, .0003 to .0004 in. 

 long, .0002 to .00025 broad. 



Pileus 2 to 3 in. broad ; stem 8 to 18 lines long, 4 to G lines thick. 



Pastures. Saratoga county. 



The species is related to C. prunulus from which it is distinct by its 



shorter, paler' spores, its glabrous pileus rimose-areolate on the disk, 



and tinged with red or alutaceous and by its paler lamelloe. From 



G. pseudo-orcella it differs in its glabrous pileus with no silky luster 



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