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the pileus but becoming blackish in drying; spores white, 6-7 [i 

 long, 4-6 //, broad. 



Pileus 2.5-5 cm broad; stem 4-7.5 cm long, 6-12 mm thick. 



Subcespitose or gregarious. Rye Beach, New Hampshire. G. B. 

 Fessenden. 



A fine species easily distinguished by its strong odor and the 

 blackening of the lamellae and stem where bruised and in drying. 



Pileus carneus, ad marginem tenuis, convexus, demum subplanus, 

 glaber, albidus vel fumoso-albus, caro albida, vulnera ad griseum 

 tarde mutantia, sapor leviter et tarde acris, odor terrenus, ingratus, 

 persistens ; lamellae tenues, angustae, conf ertae, leviter vel valde 

 decurrentes, albidae, ubi vulneratae nigricantes et in siccitate ; stipes 

 solidus, leviter fibroso-striatus, basi incrassatus vel bulbosus, albidus, 

 ill siccitate nigricans; sporae albae, 6-7x4-6/-'-. 



Clitopilus washingtoniensis Braend. in lit. 



Pileus thin, broadly convex, nearly plane or centrally depressed, 

 sometimes undulate on the margin, glabrous, at first bluish, soon 

 pale purple or mauve, flesh white, taste mild ; lamellae narrow, 

 close, decurrent, slightly tinged with pink ; stem short, central, 

 eccentric or almost lateral, equal or tapering downward, fibrillose 

 and longitudinally rimulose, solid, brownish; spores elliptic, 6-7 /-/- 

 long, 4-5 p. broad. 



Pileus 1.6-2.5 cm broad; stem 1-2 cm long, 2-4 mm thick. 



Gregarious or cespitose. Washington, D. C. June. F. J. 

 Braendle. 



Remarkable for the peculiar colors of the pileus and for its 

 variable attachment to the stem. 



Pileus tenuis, late convexus subplanus vel in centro depressus, 

 glaber, aliquando margine undatus, primus subcaeruleus deinde 

 pallide purpureus, carne alba, sapore miti ; lamellae angustae, con- 

 f ertae, decurrentes, subincarnatae ; stipes brevis, centralis, eccen- 

 tricus vel sublateralis, aequalis vel infra attenuatus, fibrillosus, in 

 longum rimulosus, solidus, brunneus ; sporae ellipsoideae, 6-7^ 



4-5 !'■' 



Coniothecium perplexum 



Effused, forming a thin black crust ; hyphae inconspicuous, short, 

 continuous, creeping, colored, 3-4 ,x in diameter; spores minute, 

 subglobose or irregular, colored, 4-6 -" in diameter, persistently 

 adhering and forming subglobose, irregular or oblong opaque 

 masses, 20-40 /-/ in diameter or 20-35 -" ^o^g, 40-60 ij- broad. 



