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111 moL^t places in woods. North Carolina and Georgia to 

 Ohio and Missouri. June to October. 



Specimens of this species have sometimes been confused in 

 recent years with the better known C. Cantharellus, which ranges 

 farther north. The color and general habit of these species is 

 the same ; both have the egg-yellow color and the characteristic 

 fragrance of Cantharellus cibai'ius when moistened after drying, 

 and all three are edible. Craterellus odoratus is more membra- 

 naceous than C. Cantharellus and it differs from both this species 

 and Cantharellus cibarius in having a hollow or cavernous stem 

 whose pliant walls may be pinched together, like those of a 

 rubber tube, before the specimens are dried. Highly branched 

 forms may occur as shown in pi. 16 fig. 10a; this character was 

 unduly emphasized in the original description. The ample 

 collections in the Glatfelter Herbarium seem to show that Cra- 

 terellus odoratus is the most frequent Craterellus in the vicinity 

 of St. Louis. Dr. Glatfelter notes on his collection that he has 

 eaten this species and found it quite good. In pi. 15 fig. 8, I 

 give a figure, natural size, from a photograph of the dried her- 

 barium cotype of C. confluens B. & C., to show how close the 

 resemblance is to the specimens of C. odoratus, collected at St. 

 Louis and figured in the following plate. The type of C con- 

 fluens has the hymenium rugose-wrinkled, as is often the case 

 in specimens of C. odoratus; its habit, dimensions, structure, 

 coloration, and spores are quite those of C. odoratus. 



Specimens examined: 

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

 South Carolina: Society Hill, Ravenel, 192 (in Curtis Herb.). 

 Georgia: Station cited by Schweinitz. 

 Alabama : Auburn, L. M. Underwood. 

 Ohio: Oxford, L. 0. Overholts, 1721 (in Overholts Herb.). 

 Missouri: near St. Louis, N. M. Glatfelter, 348 (in Mo. Bot. 

 Card. Herb., 42590), and J. B. S. Norton (in Mo. Bot. Card. 

 Herb., 4926). 

 Mexico: near Orizaba, Botteri, 6 (type and cotype in Kew 

 Herb, and Curtis Herb., respectively, of C. confluens). 



4. C. roseus Schw. ex Fries, Epicr. 533. 1836-1838. 



Merulius roseus Schw. Schrift. d. Naturforsch. Gesell., Leip- 



