THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 93 
Stems were short and thick, and only three inches in length. The 
caps were smooth, with their margins turned up and wavy and 
the gills were adnate-decurrent and crowded. The stems of this 
species are disproportionally short, considering the width of the 
cap. The latter is not regular, but is often longer on one side 
than the other. This mushroom is also said to be good eating. 
Some of the plants have the stems lateral and so resemble the gen- 
us rieiirotiis. I think they are quite as striking looking when one 
sees them in the woods, as Clitocybe illudens. Clitocyhe trul^ 
laeformis or the basin-shaped Clitocybe, from the word trullae 
which signifies a basin or ladle, is quite different looking. The 
color is grey and the shape funnel-like as the name betokens. It 
is dry and flocculose, and the flesh white. It is much smaller than 
the ones I have described. The cap is two inches broad and the 
stem two inches long and like the cap, of a grey color. The gills 
are decurrent and distant and shining white. It resembles C . 
cyathiformis in color of cap and stem, but differs in the snow- 
white flesh. These four Clitocybes are the principle ones I found 
beside the ubiquitous C. laccata which pervades every space. One 
can not walk along any path, in the woods or along roads without 
seeing it, and the shapes it assumes are manifold. It is a great 
trial to the beginner who is constantly thinking that he has dis- 
covered a new mushroom. 
Crater el his clavatus was a new mushroom to me. It affords 
another example of the indistinct line of demarcation between 
genera. The genus Craterellus, is allied tO' Cantherellus, which 
is intermediate between Agaricus and Craterellus. We are all 
familiar with Craterellus cornucopoides. Its blackish-grey trum- 
pet-shaped cap is found nearly everywhere. If a beginner should 
find C. Clavatus he would hardly recognize it as a Craterellus, so 
different is its shape. The name clavatus shows that it is club- 
shaped, and it somewhat resembles the family Clavaria. It was 
irregularly club-shaped, of a pinkish yellowish hue, three inches 
long and one-half inch wide. The cap was rough and fleshy and 
it became narrower as it joined the solid flexous stem. The flesh 
was thick and white. Atkinson gives a fine picture and descrip- 
tion of a mushroom that I found for the first time this summer. 
