Kingsessing, West Philadelphia. Gregarious and cespitose, among leaves, etc., in oak woods. September to October, 1885.
This very pretty fungus very much resembles at first sight the small purplish Clitocybes, but is readily distinguished on examination. I ate the caps and enjoyed them during the seasons of 1885 and 1887, but have not seen the plant since.
The caps are equal to M. oreades.
C. Calopodes.
M. scorodo´nius Fr. Gr—a plant that smells like garlic. Pileus ½ in. and more broad, rufous when young, but soon becoming pale, whitish (not hygrophanous), slightly fleshy, pliant, convex then soon plane, obtuse, always arid; even when young, at length wrinkled and crisped. Stem 1 in. long, scarcely 1 line thick, horny, tough, tubed, equal, very smooth throughout, shining, reddish, inserted and naked at the base. Gills adnate, often separating, connected by veins, at length crisped in drying, whitish.
Commonly gregarious. Readily distinguished from neighboring species by its strong odor of garlic. Fries.
Heaths and dry pastures on twigs, etc. Rare.
Edible. Esteemed for flavoring. Stevenson.
Spores elliptical, 6×4µ Massee.