Leucosporee 



venose interspaces. Occasionally a slight anise-like odor is perceptible, Coiiybia. 

 but in decay the plants have a very disagreeable odor and disgusting 

 appearance." 49th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



West Virginia, 1880-1885; Haddonfield, N. J., 1896. Gregari- 

 ous, and in large bunches. Mt. Gretna and Eagle's Mere, Pa., 1897, 

 Mcllvaine. 



When fresh, in good condition, the caps are good, but they are not 

 nearly equal in substance or flavor to C. radicata and C. longipes. They 

 are best broiled or fried. 



Var. re'pens Fr. Pileus more fleshy, depressed. Stem hollow, 

 compressed, pruinate at the apex, with a creeping, string-like mycelium. 



It is best distinguished by its white, villous, anastomosing, very 

 much branched mycelium which creeps a long distance in a rooting 

 string-like manner. The so-called roots are quite different from the 

 stem, not a prolongation of the stem itself. Fries. 



Clearly a variety of C. platyphylla. C. platyphylla is quite variable, 

 even puzzling. Edible qualities the same. 



C. long'ipes Bull. longus, long; pes, a foot. PileilS 1-2 in. across, 

 conical then expanded, umbonate, dry, minutely, beautifully velvety. 

 Color from pale to date-brown, sometimes umber. Flesh white, thin, 

 elastic. Gills white, broad, tough, thick, adnexed, distant, ventricose, 

 rounded behind, emarginate. Stem 4-6 in. long, 2-4 lines thick, taper- 

 ing upward, usually densely and minutely velvety like the cap, nearly 

 same color, with a long, tapering root. 



On much decayed stumps and logs. July to October. Closely re- 

 sembles C. radicata. It is readily distinguished by its velvety cap and 

 stem. It is more glutinous. 



Spores spheroid, 12/x Q. 



California. Edible. H. and M. 



West Virginia mountains, 1880-1885 ; Cheltenham, Pa., 1889. Mc- 

 Ilvainc. 



Excepting from California, C. longipes has not previously been re- 

 ported as found in the United States. It is not plentiful in the forests 

 of West Virginia, yet I often found it upon rotting stumps and logs, 

 solitary, but up to a dozen in the same vicinity. It is unmistakable. Its 

 rich yet dull velvety cap and stem and the purity of its gills hold the 

 finder's admiration. 



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