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found the spores of the type in Herb. Schw. 8-9 x 3|-4 n, or 

 a little slenderer than in northern specimens. Hard states 

 that the spores are yellowish or salmon colored in the mass 

 when collected. This species is edible. 



Specimens examined: 

 Exsiccati: Ell. & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 1921. 

 Massachusetts: Sprague (in Curtis Herb.); Milton, H. Webster. 

 Connecticut: East Hartford, C. C. Hanmer, 2391, 2468 (both 



in Hanmer Herb.). 

 Pennsylvania: West Chester, B. M. Everhart, Ell. & Ev., N. 



Am. Fungi, 1921. 

 West Virginia: Eglon, C. G. Lloyd, 02292. 

 North Carolina: Schweinitz, type (in Herb. Schweinitz); 



Blowing Rock, G. F. Atkinson, 4318. 

 South Carolina: Clemson College, P. H. Rolfs, 1830. 

 Alabama: Peters (in Curtis Herb., 4539, and in Kew Herb.), 



the ootype and type respectively of C. lateritius; Auburn, 



F. S. Earle (in Mo. Bot. Card. Herb., 4928). 

 Ohio: A. P. Morgan (in Lloyd Herb.). 

 Kentucky: C. G. Lloyd (in Lloyd Herb.). 

 Mexico (?) : Botteri, 27 (in Curtis Herb.). If the stem is hollow 



this specimen is C. odoratus. 

 3. C. odoratus Schw. ex Fries, Epicr. 532. 1836-1838. 



Plates 15, 16. figs. 8-10. 



Merulius odoratus Schw. Schrift. d. Naturforsch. Gesell., 



Leipzig, i: 91. 1822. — Cantharellus odoratus Fries, Elenchus 



Fung, i: 51. 1828. — C. confluens Berk. & Curtis, Jour. Linn. 



Soc. Bot. 9: 423. 1867. 



Type: in Herb. Schweinitz. 



Fructifications gregarious, sometimes cespitose, simple or 

 branched, egg-yellow; pileus thin, convex, then depressed and 

 somewhat cyathiform, sometimes pervious, yellow, the margin 

 deflexed, often lobed or irregular; stem cylindric or somewhat 

 tapering towards the base, concolorous with the pileus, hollow 

 or cavernous; hymenium even or somewhat rugose-wrinkled, 

 ochraceous orange or with a reddish tinge approaching San- 

 ford's brown; spores even, 7-9 x 4-5 m. 



Fructifications 3-7 cm. high; pileus 2-9 cm. broad; stem 2-4 

 cm. long, 3-8 mm. thick. 



