Clitocybe ditopoda. Fr.
Ditopoda is from two Greek words, di-totos, living in two places, and pus or poda, foot, having reference to the stem being central at times and again eccentric.
The pileus is rather fleshy, convex, then plane, depressed, even, smooth, hygrophanous.
The gills are adnate, crowded, thin, dark, cinereous.
The stem is hollow, equal, almost naked.
This species resembles in appearance C. metachroa but can be separated by the mild taste and farinaceous odor. Its favorite habit is on pine needles. August and September. I found this species in various places about Chillicothe and on Thanksgiving day I found it in a mixed wood in Gallia County, Ohio, along with Hygrophorus lauræ and Tricholoma maculatescens. I sent some specimens to Dr. Herbst, who pronounced it C. ditopoda.
Clitocybe pithyophila. Fr.
The Pine-Loving Clitocybe.
