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all parts darker in age, but not turning greenish in age or when 

 bruised ; flesh rather tender and brittle, white or nearly so ; taste 

 musty-woody; odor slight. 



Spores yellowish ochraceous (color of the hymenium), elliptic- 

 pip-shaped, distinctly short-spinulose, variable in size in the same 

 collection, 3.4-4 x 6.3-9^ (a few up to IOjjl long). Basidia (of B. 

 No. 91) about 5.5fx thick, 4-spored; hymenium about 75^ thick, 

 with very many embedded spores as is usual in this group ; threads 

 of flesh very irregular and variable in thickness, clamp connections 

 present and variable in size. 



Gregarious in clumps among rotting leaves of pine. Easily 

 distinguished, except from its own group, by the small size, yel- 

 lowish color, cespitose habit, occurrence under pine, and charac- 

 teristic spores. In the numerous plants we have seen there was 

 no green tint nor did bruises turn greenish. There seem to be all 

 variations between this and the more delicate plant with olive tints 

 found in hemlock woods that we refer to typical C. abictina and its 

 non-virescent form (C. flaccid a). Only extremes can be separated 

 with certainty in the dried state. 



Our plants are the same as a collection from West Albany by 

 Peck labelled C. cornigata Karst., but we are in some doubt as to 

 whether the latter species is the same as ours. Karsten's descrip- 

 tion fits only moderately well, as he says the stem is glabrous and 

 the tips acute. His plant was found in pine woods among alders 

 and is said by Saccardo to be intermediate between C. abietina 

 and C. flaccida. For a good illustration reputed to be C. cornigata 

 see Britzelmayr, Hymen. Siidb., Clavariei, figs. 17 and 80-81. 



Illustrations: Flora Danica, pi. 2030, fig. 2 (as C. abietina). 1830. 

 Photographic copy in Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 9 : pi. 5, fig. 28. 1922. 



North Carolina : Blowing Rock. Coker, No. 5784. Under white pines by 

 Lake Chetola, August 25, 1922. (U. N. C. Herb.). Spores warted, 

 pip-shaped, 3.4-3.8 x 6-8//,. 



New York: Hudson Falls. Burnham, No. 91. Among rotting needles 

 under white pines, August 16, 1917. (U. N. C. Herb.). 

 Delmar. (Albany Herb.). Exactly like B. No. 91. 



Albany. House. (Albany Herb.). Like B. No. 91, but running smaller. 

 West Albany. Peck. (Albany Herb., as C. cornigata). Spores 4x7.6/i. 



