Murrill : Clitocybe in North America 
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Agaric iis dicolor Pers. Syn. Fung. 462. 1801. 
Agaricus metachrous Fries, Syst. Myc. i : 172. 1821. 
Clitocybe metachroa Quel. Champ. Jura Vosg. 216. 1872. 
Described from Europe, where it is common in pine woods, 
and reported once by Peck in pine woods in Albany County, New 
York. It has also been reported from Maryland and New Bruns- 
wick. Hard’s Ohio specimens are probably incorrectly deter- 
mined. Romell has recently collected this species in abundance 
at Femsjd, Sweden, where it was first known to Fries. Bul- 
liard’s plate 248, containing the original description of A. cy- 
athiformis, is said by Fries to represent two species, C. meta- 
chroa and C. brnmalis, but I prefer to consider it as representing 
the two stages in C. metachroa, showing the change in color both 
of the surface and the lamellae. C. briimalis is very similar to 
C. metachroa, but the lamellae do not change color. 
Clitocybe Earlei sp. nov. 
Pileus thin, rather tough, convex to expanded, subumbonate, 
solitary or gregarious, reaching 8 cm. broad; surface glabrous, 
shining, subhygrophanous, smooth, dark-seal-brown when moist, 
fuscous when dry, margin entire, concolorous, indexed ; context 
firm, white with a brownish tint, the taste mild, slightly mawkish, 
the odor not characteristic ; lamellae short-decurrent, several times 
inserted, some of them forking, densely crowded, narrow, white ; 
spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 7.5-9 X 5-6.5 /a stipe su'bcylin- 
dric, enlarged at the base, pallid when young, soon becoming con- 
colorous, solid, smooth, glabrous, reaching 15 cm. long and 1-1.5 
cm. thick. 
Type collected on the ground in mixed, rocky woods at West 
Park, New York, August 6, 1903, F. S. Earle 1753- Not col- 
lected since. 
Clitocye eccentrica Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 25:321. 1898 
Described from specimens collected on much decayed wood in 
Vermont and later collected in Connecticut, New York, Pennsyl- 
vania, western North Carolina, and Wisconsin. Dodge finds the 
stipe only slightly eccentric. 
