968 W YnKK i: Ml SKI M 



With scaly points, white or yellowish white; spores white, ellip- 

 tic, .00026 .0003 of an inch long, .00016 .0002 broad. 



This hygrophorus is a beautiful mushroom when fresh hut its 

 cap and gilli change color in drying, by which it loses much of 

 its beauty. Both cap and stem are smeared with a 

 id sul.stance or gluten that makes it unpleasaut to 

 handle. in the typical form the cap is white except 

 in the center where it has a reddish or brownish tinge 

 which sometimes spreads faintly toward the margin, but 

 there is a variety in which the cap is entirely white 

 or only faintly tinged with yellow. We have named this variety 

 anicolor. Sometimes the center is Blightly prominent or 

 nmbonate and the margin is irregular or wavy. The gills are 

 decurrent and rather wide apart. They are wmite w T hen fresh, 

 but like the cap tiny become brown or reddish brown in drying. 

 The stem is white or nearly so, solid, commonly tapering to a 

 point at the base but sometimes marly equal in all its parts. 

 Its viscidity makes it difficult to pull the plant from its place of 

 growth with the fingers. 



The cap is L-4 inches broad; the stem 1-4 inches long and 2-6 

 lines thick. This mushroom grows among fallen leaves in w r oods 

 and appears during August and September. It appears to be 

 uliar to this country. It is related to the ivory hygrophorus 

 and the goal moth hygrophorus of Europe but from the former 

 it differs in its solid stem, elliptic spores and change of color in 

 drying and from the latter by the absence of odor. I have eaten 

 the white form only, but give a figure of the other also. 



Clitopilus abortivus B. & C. 



ABOBTIVE CI/ITOPIL1 8 

 PLATE 78, FIG. 13-19 

 Pib-ns fleshy, tirm. convex nearly plane or sometimes slightly 

 depressed in the .enter, regular or occasionally irregular on the 

 margin, *\v\\ clothed at ftrsl with a minute silky tomentnm, be- 

 in- smooth with age, gray or -ravish brown, flesh white, taste 

 and odor inbfarin&ceous; Lamellae thin, close, adnate or strongly 

 decurrent, whitish or pale -ray when young, becoming salmon 



