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for a month and is described in detail and beautifully illustrated 

 in connection with his original description in the work cited 

 above. I reproduce merely some simple outline sketches of 

 C. taxophilus; this is a very distinct species. The specimens 

 were found in Fall Creek Gorge and nowhere except under 

 prostrate branches of Taxus, yet they grew on rotting twigs 

 and leaves of other species as well as on pieces of Taxus. 



Specimens examined: 

 New York: Ithaca, C. Thorn, Cornell Univ. Herb., 15445. 



13. C. unicolor Rav. Grevillea i: 148. 1873. 



Plate 16. fig. 11, 12. 



C. corrugis Peck, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 26: 69. 1899. 



Type: in Ravenel, Fung. Car. II. 26. 



Fructifications solitary or cespitose, fleshy, with the flesh 

 white, soft, soon shrinking and leaving the pileus hollow; 

 pileus at first clavate, obtuse, flesh-colored tinted with violet, 

 soon obconic or turbinate, broadl}^ convex or truncate, and 

 often abruptly cerebriform at the upper end, glabrous, ochra- 

 ceous buff, drj'ing Rood's brown to Natal-brown, the margin 

 obtuse, corrugated by the hymenial \\Tinkles; stem short, equal 

 or tapering downwards, colored like or a little paler than the 

 pileus; hymenium \M'inkled or corrugated, colored like the 

 pileus; spores white, 8-12 x 4-6 /x. 



Fructifications 2-5 cm. high; pileus l|-5 cm. broad; stem 1-2| 

 cm. long, 5-8 mm. thick. 



On ground in thin w^oods. Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, 

 and South CaroUna. October to January. 



This fungus presents strikingly the vagaries in the distri- 

 bution of fungi. It was originally collected at Black Oak, 

 South Carolina, in 1850, by Ravenel, in sufficient quantity so 

 that he distributed the type collection in his exsiccati. Appar- 

 ently, this fungus, whenever collected, was referred to other 

 species until 1898, when members of the Boston Mycological 

 Club found it in several localities in Massachusetts and it was 

 adequately described by Peck, as C. corrugis, from specimens 

 received from Dr. Francis. I have received no specimens of 

 this species since that season; I searched for it in vain for several 

 years in the adjoining state, Vermont. I have compared the 

 specimens of C. corrugis, received from Dr. Francis, with Peck's 



