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stewed for nearly an hour and seasoned with butter or meat gravy. 

 It is an excellent addition, also, to hashes, meat stews, and omelets. 



Clitocybe virens (Scop.) Sacc. 

 Clitocybe odor a (Bull.) Quel. 

 Fragrant Clitocybe 



Plate ii. Figure 2. X 1 



Pileus fleshy, tough, convex, becoming plane or nearly so, obtuse 

 or subumbonate, scattered or subgregarious, 4-7 cm. broad; sur- 

 face glabrous, moist in wet weather, green or dingy-green, fading 

 with age or on drying, margin even, regular or sometimes wavy ; 

 context whitish, the odor pleasant like anise ; lamellae thin, 

 crowded, adnate or slightly decurrent, white or becoming pallid ; 

 spores 6-8 X 4-5 p ; stipe equal or slightly thickened at the base, 

 stuffed or hollow, elastic, glabrous, whitish or greenish, 2.5-5 cm - 

 long, 4-8 mm. thick. 



A woodland species of unusual and beautiful colors found in 

 the eastern United States from Maine to North Carolina and west 

 to Michigan. Peck called it Clitocybe anisaria because of its 

 agreeable odor. This species has appeared regularly each year 

 among the leaves in a small grove of young birch trees at the edge 

 of the Hemlock Grove in the New York Botanical Garden. 



Prunulus purus (Pers.) Murrill 

 Mycena pur a (Pers.) Quel. 

 Pure Prunulus 



Plate 11. Figure 3. X 1 



Pileus fleshy, thin, campanulate or convex to expanded, obtusely 

 umbonate when young, 2-5 cm. broad ; surface smooth, glabrous, 

 of uniform color, varying from rose to rose-purple, violet, or 

 lilac, margin striate, upturned with age ; lamellae rather broad, 

 adnate to sinuate, sometimes wavy and crenate on the edges, 

 venose-connected, varying from white to shades of rose or violet, 

 sometimes white on the edges ; spores oblong, hyaline, 7-9 X 

 3-3-5^; cystidia subcylindric, 30-40X13-15/^; stipe firm, 

 smooth, subglabrous, concolorous, hollow, somewhat villose at 

 the base, 5-8 cm. long, 2-4 mm. thick. 



