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 200 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



On roots of living apple and blackberry plants, on the ground, 

 and broadly effused on rotting logs of frondose and coniferous 

 species. Canada to Texas and westward to the Pacific coast, 

 in West Indies and in Japan. Throughout the year. Common. 



C. galactinum resembles C. portentosum in aspect but has a 

 more erect hj^Dhal structure and is usually not at all stratose and 

 with substance not colored. Both species have a hymenial sur- 

 face composed of fine, curved hyphal branches, but the spores 

 of C. galactinum are smaller and ellipsoid and those of C. por- 

 tentosum spherical. The mycelium of C. galactinum was col- 

 lected as a parasitic root rot on the roots of young apple trees 

 and blackberry bushes and developed mature fructifications. 

 The collector's data on the t>T)e specimen of this species is " In 

 radicibus ad latera fossarum." 



Specimens examined: 

 Exsiccati: Ravenel, Fungi Car. 4: 15, under the name Corticium 



calceum. 

 Canada: /. Macoun, 26, 31, 111; Lower St. Lawrence Valley, 



J. Macoun, 4, 9, 35, 83. 

 Ontario: Lake Rosseau, E. T. & S. A. Harper, 638, 640; Nixon, 



J. Dearness, 1023 (in Mo. Bot. Card. Herb., 22732); Ottawa, 



J. Macoun, 56, 248, in part; Temagami, H. von Schrenk (in 



Mo. Bot. Card. Herb., 57053). 

 Maine: New Limerick, H. von Schrenk, 62 (in U. S. Dept. Agr. 



Herb, and Burt Herb.); Piscataquis County, W, A. Murrill, 



1881 (in N. Y. Bot. Card. Herb., Mo. Bot. Card. Herb., 61423, 



and Burt Herb.). 

 New Hampshire: Chocorua, W. G. Farlow (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 



Herb., 19544); North Conway, L. 0. Overholts, 4555, 4584 (in 



Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 55635, 55634). 

 Vermont: Grand View Mt., E. A. Burt; Little Notch, E. A. Burt; 



]Middlebury, E. A. Burt, five gatherings. 

 New York: Arkville, W. A. Murrill (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., 



and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 61362, 61363); Cranberry Lake, 



A. H. W. Povah, 772 (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 3730); East 



Galway, E. A. Burt; Floodwood, E. A. Burt, C. H. Peck, 12; 



Forestburgh, C. H. Peck, comm. by N. Y. State Mus. Herb, (in 



Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 56049); Freeville, G. F. Atkinson, 



