MYCOLOGICAL NOTES. 
BY G. G. LLOYD, 
No. 3. 
CINCINNATI, O. KP% ILi, 1899. 
35—SOME CHARACTERISTIC PLANTS. 
We believe in taking up a genus at a time and de¬ 
scribing all the species we have met and do not favor isola¬ 
ted descriptions of fungi. The following plants however 
are so frequent and marked that they will be noted by most 
collectors. The descriptions of the two volvarias complete 
all the species of this genus we have observed. 
36—CLITOCYBE MONADELPHA. 
Pileus convex, obtusely umbonate, center depressed 
when old, sometimes yellowish honey color, but usually red- 
. dish brown, fibrillose, scaly. Flesh solid, pale flesh color. 
Gills short, decurrent, pale flesh color. Stem long, slender, 
solid, equal or tapering to the base, pale brownish or flesh 
color, darker below. 
It grows here in great abundance in the fall densely caespitose usually at the 
base of stumps. I would place it in the Disciformes. It has a curious history. 
First, it was collected by Lea, who sent it to Berkeley, who named and described 
it as Lentinus ca3spitosus. Berkeley in the Journal of Linnsean Soc. (Vol. 10, p. 
287,1 apparently on the advice of Dr. Curtis who informed him, “it was certainly 
, an Agaric,” changed it to Pleurotus cfespitosus and finally Prof. Morgan named 
it Clitocybe monadelpha. It is described under all three of these names in Saccardo, 
and as Prof. Morgan was the first to correctly classify it, we prefer to retain his 
name. It has a close resemblance to some forms of Armillaria mellea in size, 
shape, color and texture, but can be distinguished by its crespito'se habits and 
absence of ring. Dr. Curtis says “when dry it has a kind of acid-sweetish odor 
not unlike that about a cider-press.” Rev. A. B. Langlois sends us abortive forms 
of the plant similar to those we find of Clitopilus abortivus. Prof. Peck has very 
recently illustrated the plant among his plates of edible species and states that the 
flavor is superior to that of Armillaria mellea. It is a rare plant in New York 
and East, but abundant enough in the West and South. 
37—FLAMMULA RHODOXANTHUS. 
Pileus obconic, or when old somewhat infundibuliform 
and depressed in the center, buff brown, minutely tomentose 
and soft to the touch, the cuticle usually finely cracked. Gills 
bright golden yellow, arctuate, long decurrent, faintly ven- 
osely connected. Flesh white, becoming yellowish when old. 
Stem solid, equal, punctate with small reddish brown scales. 
Spores light yellow, oblong, 5x12 me., resembling somewhat 
in shape those of Boletus. 
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