Figure 73.—Clitocybe pithyophila. Two-thirds natural size. Cap white and showing the pine needles upon which they grow.
Pithyophila means pine-loving. This plant is very abundant under pine trees on Cemetery Hill. They grow on the bed of pine needles. The pileus is very variable in size, white, one to two inches broad; fleshy, thin, becoming plane, umbonate, smooth, growing pale, at length irregularly shaped, repand, wavy, sometimes slightly striate.
The stem is hollow, terete, then compressed, smooth, equal, even, downy at the base.
The gills are adnate, somewhat decurrent, crowded, plane, always white. The spores are 6–7×4µ. The plants in Figure 73 are small, having been found during the cold weather in November. They are said to be good, but I have not eaten them.
Clitocybe candicans. Fr.
Candicans, whitish or shining white. Pileus is one inch broad, entirely white, somewhat fleshy, convex, then plane, or depressed, even, shining, with regularly deflexed margin.
The gills are adnate, crowded, thin, at length decurrent, narrow.
The stem is nearly hollow, even, waxy, shining, nearly equal, cartilaginous, smooth, incurved at the base. The spores are broadly elliptical, or subglobose, 5–6×4µ. Found in damp woods on leaves.
Clitocybe obbata. Fr.
The Beaker-Shaped Clitocybe. Edible.