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Underwood : A new Cantharellus from Maine 



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purple, tender and brittle ; spores white or whitish, very abundant, 

 dusting the entire plant ; height six to twelve inches ; taste mild, odor 



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aromatic. The plant suggested to me curly cabbage. 



every curly edge having a silvery line, perhaps from the light col- 



ored spores ; 



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the leaf-hke divisions are about a quarter 



It breaks 



of an inch in thickness, thinning out toward the edge. 



very easily when fresh. It is very rare in the Maine woods. I 



have found it for two years in the same place — two plants each 



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year, s!^ ^p ^ Jt: grew on dry bare ground (possibly from de- 

 cayed wood beneath) in dense second growth woods of spruce and 



fir." 



The plant is a remarkable one and from its habit might well 

 forma distinct genus since it has little in common with Cantharellus 



except its fold-like 



gills. 



It will perhaps be safer for the present 



to leave it in its present position. 



