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finally disappears, then campanulate, striate nearly to the center, 

 much torn or lacerated on the margin, pale buff becoming darker 

 Avith age; lamellae thin, close, free, white when young, becoming 

 black ; stem equal or slightly thickened at the base, striate, hollow^ 

 white; spores elliptic, 12-15// long, 8-iO/i broad. 



Pileus 2.5-4 cm. broad; stem 5-7.5 cm. long, about 4 mm. 



thick. 



Cespitose on manure mixed with shavings, Ohio, Lloyd. 



The glabrate mature specimens resemble very pale forms of 

 C, micaccus Fr. Youncf plants resemble C. quad. 



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the mature plants do not split to the center as in that species, and 

 the spores are larger than in it. 



Polyporus admirabilis 



Pilei tufted, large, more or less imbricated, nearly entire cen- 

 trally depressed or subinfundibuliform, glabrous, white or slightly 

 tinted with pale yellow or cream color ; pores minute, rotund, 

 whitish, with thin dissepiments ; spores flattened, orbicular, 5-6 ji 



broad. 



Pilei 10-15 cm. broad, united at the base and forming tufts 30 



cm. or more in diameter. 



Wood of apple trees, Riverside, Maine. August and Sep- 

 tember. H. P. Burt. 

 ' This is a very beautiful and attractive species which is referable 

 to the tribe Merisma. Mr. Burt remarks that the fresh tufts of 

 clear white trumpet shaped pilei are suggestive of a cluster of giant 

 calla lilies. 



Craterellus corrugis 



Pileus soft, fleshy, flexible, at first clavate, obtuse, flesh colo- 

 tinted with violet, soon obconic or turbinate, broadly convex or 

 truncate, glabrous, somewhat irregular with an obtuse margin corr 

 rugated by the extension of the hymenial wrinkles, ochraceous buff 

 or pale ochraceous when fresh and moist, somewhat rufescent 

 when dry, sometimes leprously whitened, in the center, flesh white, 

 very soft, soon shrinking and leaving the pileus hollow, the 

 hymenium colored like the pileus, conspicuously corrugated or 

 WTinkled when fresh or moist, the wrinkles less conspicuous when 

 dry ; stem short, equal or tapering downward, colored like or a 

 little paler than the pileus; spores white, 8-iO/^ long; 4-5// 



broad. 



Pileus 2.5-5 cm. broad ; stem 1. 5-2. 5 cm. long, 6-8 mm. thick. 



Thin oak woods, Massachusetts. September to November. 

 G. F, Francis. 



