The stem is stuffed, firm, slender, smooth, pubescent at the base.
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.
[Illustration: Figure 70.--Clitocybe metachroa. Caps dark gray. Gills pale gray.]
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 caps are quite smooth and are frequently concentrically cracked or wrinkled, much as in Clitopilus noveboracensis.
It is found growing on leaves in mixed woods, after a rain, in August and September. When young the margin is incurved but wavy in age. It is quite a hardy plant.
[Illustration: Figure 71.--Clitocybe adirondackensis. Three-fourths natural size. Caps white.]
Adirondackensis, so called because the plant was first found in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
The pileus is thin, submembranaceous, funnel-form, with the margin decurved, nearly smooth, hygrophanous, white, the disk often darker.
The gills are white, very narrow, scarcely broader than the thickness of the flesh of the pileus, crowded, long, decurrent, subarcuate, some of them forked.
The stem is slender, subequal, not hollow, whitish, mycelio-thickened at the base. _Peck._
The pileus is one to two inches broad and the stem is one to two and a half long. This is quite a pretty mushroom and has the Clitocybe appearance in a marked degree. The long, narrow, decurrent gills, sometimes tinged with yellow, some of them forked, margin of the pileus sometimes wavy, will assist in distinguishing it. I have no doubt of its edibility. Found among leaves in woods after heavy rains. With us it is confined to the wooded hillsides. The specimens in Figure 71 were found in Michigan and photographed by Dr. Fischer. Found in July and August.
Plate XI. Figure 72.--Clitocybe ochropurpurea.]
Ochropurpurea is from _ochra_, ocher or clay color; _purpureus_, purple; it is so called because the caps are clay-color and the gills are purple. The caps are convex, fleshy, quite compact, clay-colored, sometimes tinged with purple around the margin, cuticle easily separating, margin involute, often at first tomentose, old forms often repand or wavy.