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Clitocybe Gerardiana Pk. 



Swamps and bogs. Wood farm swamp. June. 



Clitocybe laccata Scop. 



Woods, groves and swamps. A^ery common. June to October. 



Edible but rather tough and not highly flavored, A favorite habitat of 



this species is under coniferous trees, specially pine trees. A genus 



Laccariahas been instituted by Berkeley and Broome for the reception of 



this and allied species, having for its principal characters, broadly adnate 



lamellae becoming dusted by the copious subglobose minutely warted 



white spores. 



C. laccata pallidifolia Pk. 



Swamps and groves. Common. Diff'ering from the type in its palei- 



lamellae. 



C. laccata striatula Pk. 



Wet places. Distinguished by its usually small size with its glabrous 



pileus so thin that it is striatulate when moist, the position of the lamellae 



beneath showing through it like shadowy lines. 



Collybia radicata Relh. 



Rooting collybia 



.Woods. Common. Edible, but the flesh is thin and not very richly 

 flavored. Remarkable for the long root-like extension of the stem. 



C. radicata furfuracea Pk. 



This variety differs from the typical form in having the stem sprinkled 



copiously with small branny scales. It is as plentiful as the typical 



form. 



C. radicata pusilla Pk. 



A small variety with the pileus scarcely more than an inch broad. It 

 is most often found under beech trees. 



Collybia platyphylla Fr 



Woods and clearings on the ground and on much decayed wood. 

 Common. June to September. A large stout species easily mistaken 

 for a Tricholoma. 



Collybia butyracea Bull. 



Groves of young coniferous trees. Common. 



Collybia maculata A. cr S. 

 Damp woods and mossy ground. Common. 



