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and they are certainly the species so interpreted by Bresadola, 

 who has recently put the species on a sure basis (Ann. Myc. 1 : 

 112. 1903), although he is wrong in his list of synonyms (see 

 note under C. stricta). His was the first correct description of 

 the spores and it is in exact accordance with our own except that 

 in our plants the spores are not quite so thick. There are no 

 other spores at all like them among related species. (He says 

 "Spores hyaline, elongate-sinuate, as if subsigmoid, 13-18x4-6pi..") 

 Plants from Atkinson (U. S. A.) in the Bresadola Herbarium, 

 determined by Bresadola as C. byssiseda, are just like ours, the 

 spores the same shape but a little shorter, 3-4 x 8-IOjjl. Schweinitz 

 distributed plants as C. cpxphylla, a herbarium name, that he 

 refers to under C. crispula in Syn. Fung. Am. Bor., p. 181, saying, 

 "formerly called C. epiphylla by us." In the Curtis Herbarium 

 there are two fragments from Schweinitz labelled C. epiphylla on 

 the sheet with C. crispula. There is also a plant at Kew from 

 him under the first name. We think these plants from appearance 

 and the name are C. byssiseda, although we have not been able to 

 find spores on any of them. They are not what we are calling C. 

 decurrens. Patouillard's idea of the species is not the same — the 

 very small spore excluding it (Tab. Analyt. Fung., p. 28, fig. 

 567). The colored figures by Pettersson made under the direction 

 of Fries, now at Stockholm in the Riks Museum are exactly 

 like the plants collected by us on twigs at Lake George, but 

 Fries's idea of the species is certainly in part different. At Kew 

 there are two collections from him (Upsala) so determined, one 

 on spruce and one on pine cones. Both have the appearance of 

 C. apiculata, but no spores could be found. Two collections from 

 Romell (Upsala and Stockholm) labelled C. clastica v. Post (a 

 herbarium name) are C. byssiseda. Notes by Romell on C. 

 byssiseda agree very well with ours. He gives the spores as 

 10-14 x 4.5-5. 5[/.. Basidia 4-spored. Collections by Schweinitz 

 labelled C. byssiseda (Bethlehem, Pa.), in both the Schweinitz 

 and Curtis Herbaria are apparently C. Patouillardii. Peck's ref- 

 erence is probably correct ( Rept. N. Y. St. Mus. 39: 44. 1886). 

 We have seen his Adirondack plants and they seem the same as 

 ours. Quelet's conception of this species as given in Bull. Soc. 

 Bot. de France 26: 232, 1879, seems not to be this but our C. 

 stricta. 



