id, tinged with the same color as
the cap.

The pileus is one to three inches broad; grows in dense tufts. Spores
are white, smooth and globose.

When found in June the plants are a shade whiter than in the fall. The
fall plants are very much the oyster color. The early plant is a more
tender one and better for table use, however, I do not regard it as
excellent. They are found in woods, in old pastures by logs and stumps,
and in lawns. June to October.

_Clitocybe clavipes. Pers._

[Illustration: _Photo by C. G. Lloyd._

Figure 69.--Clitocybe clavipes.]

Clavipes is from _clava_, a club, and _pes_, a foot.

The pileus is one to two and a half inches broad, fleshy, rather spongy,
convex to expanded, obtuse, even, smooth, gray or brownish, sometimes
whitish toward the margin.

The gills are decurrent, descending, rather distant, nearly entire,
rather broad, white.

The stem is two inches long, swollen at the base, attenuated upward,
stuffed, spongy, fibrillose, livid sooty. Spores are elliptical,
6-7x4u.

I found specimens on Cemetery Hill underneath pine trees. I sent some to
Dr. Herbst and Prof. Atkinson; both pronounced them C. clavipes. They
resemble quite closely C. nebularis. I have also found this plant in
mixed woods. Edible and fairly good.

_Clitocybe tornata. Fr._

Tornata means turned in a lathe; so called because of its neat and
regular form.

The pileus is orbicular, plane, somewhat depressed, thin, smooth,
shining, white, darker on the disk, very regular.

The gills are decurrent adnate, rather crowded, white.

The stem is stuffed, firm, slender, smooth, pubescent at the base.

The spores are elliptical, 4-6x3-4u.

These are small, very regular, and inodorous plants. They are found in
open fields in the grass about elm stumps. July to September. They are
edible and cook readily.

_Clitocybe metachroa. Fr._

THE OBCONIC CLITOCYBE. EDIBLE.

[Illustration: Figure 70.--Clitocybe metachroa. Caps dark gray. Gills
pale gray.]

Metachroa means changing color.

The pileus is one to two and a half inches broad, somewhat fleshy,
convex, then plane, depressed, smooth, hygrophanous, brownish-gray, then
livid, growing pale.

The gills are attached to the stem, crowded, pale gray, slightly
decurrent.

The stem is one to two inches long, stuffed, then hollow, apex mealy,
equal, gray.

It differs from C. ditopa in being inodorous and having a thicker and
depressed pileus.

The c