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pyxidata and may be the same, but has distinct, slender stalks with 

 white mycelium at the base and somewhat larger spores. The 

 type of C. colensoi Berk, (in Hooker, Flora Novae-Zelandiae 2: 

 186. 1855) is in the dried state exactly like C. pyxidata, with 

 cupped tips, cartilaginous color, etc., and furthermore has brown 

 hairs at base, according to the description. However, a slide fails 

 to show the spores of C. pyxidata, but does show a much larger, 

 dark, smooth, ovate spore, 5-6.5 x 7-8. 5 pi.. 



Illustrations : Buller. Researches on Fungi 2 : fig. 63. 1922. 



Burt. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 9 : pi. 6. fig. 48 (as C. Pctcrsu) ; pi. 7, fig. 49 

 (as C. coronata). 1922. 



Flora Danica, pi. 1304, fig. 1. 1806. 



Hard. Mushrooms, fig. 389; also fig. 394 (as C. coronata). 1908. 

 Per soon. Comm., pi. 1, fig. 1. 1797. Photographed in part by Burt in 

 Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 9 : pi. 6, fig. 47. 1922. 



North Carolina: Chapel Hill. No. 359. On a very rotten log, October 11, 

 1911. Spores about 2.5x4.2/*,. No. 1611. On rotting wood, July 15, 

 1915. Spores short-elliptic, about 2.2 x 4fi. No. 1875. On a rotting 

 log of a deciduous tree, September 24, 1915. No. 3103. On a deciduous 

 stump, May, 1918. Taste very peppery. No. 3593. On leaves, mixed 

 woods, November 4, 1919. Taste very peppery; color pallid tan, brown- 

 ish below. Spores pure white. 

 Blowing Rock. Coker and party, No. 5687. (U. N. C. Herb.). Spores 

 typical. 



South Carolina: Santee. Ravenel. (Curtis Herb., Cornell Herb., Kew 

 Herb.). 



Alabama: Pieters. (Curtis Herb., as C. Petersii). 



Louisiana: Langlois. (Path, and Myc. Herb., Washington, as C. Bcrkclcyi). 



Pennsylvania: Ohiopyle. Murrill. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



New York: Vaughns. Burnham. (U. N. C Herb.). "Acrid when 

 fresh." Also another collection. (U. N. C. Herb.). "Taste not very 

 peppery." 

 Clyde. Cook. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



Connecticut : Redding. Seen by the author. 



Massachusetts: Stockbridge. Murrill and Thompson. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. 

 Herb.). 



New Hampshire: Chocorua. Farlow. (U. N. C. Herb, from Farlow 

 Herb.). 



Indiana: Fern. Underwood. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



Michigan: Hicks. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



Missouri: Demetrio. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



Cuba: Wright. (Kew Herb.). 



