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Peck's C. pinophila is this species. The type collection repre- 

 sents a more compacted form than usual, but all important charac- 

 ters are the same. The spores of the type (East Berne, N. Y.) are 

 hyaline, smooth, 3.5-4 x 12. 5-14. 5(x, curved as usual. Peck de- 

 scribed his C. pinophila as growing' under pine, but later wrote 

 Morgan that it grew under deciduous trees as well (note by Mor- 

 gan at New York Botanical Garden). For discussion of Lachno- 

 cladium Micheneri see under C. strict a. 



In size and habit this is most like C. apiculata (which looks 

 very like it in the dried state) and C. gracilis, but these have quite 

 different spores. There is nothing in Fries's descriptions to clearly 

 exclude C. epichnoa from this as the spores are much nearer white 

 than in C. botrytis which Fries also places among the white-spored 

 species. 



Illustration: Burt. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 9: pi. 7, fig. 50 (as C. pino- 

 phila). 1922. 



North Carolina : Chapel Hill. No. 4395. On a thick layer of beech leaves 

 near Meeting of the Waters, July 12, 1920. No. 4460. Mixed woods, 

 beech and oak with some pine, near branch southwest of Pritchard's, 

 arising from the leaves and twigs, July 20, 1920. Spores faintly brown- 

 ish in a good print. No. 4639. From same spot as No. 4395, August 

 6, 1920. No. 5302. On deciduous and pine leaves mixed, July 6, 1922. 

 Spores distinctly cream in a good print, crooked, 3.4-3.7 x 11-16.6/x.. 



Cranberry. Thaxter. (Thaxter Herb.). 



Blowing Rock. Coker and party, No. 5589. (U. N. C. Herb.). Spores 

 typical. 



Winston-Salem. Schallert. (U. N. C. Herb.). Spores long, crooked. 

 smooth, 3.4-4.4x12-15^.. 



Also reported by Schweinitz (Syn. Fung. Car. Sup., p. 85) who says: 

 "Radiculis distincta. Rara inter folia putrescentia." 



Pennsylvania: Bethlehem. Schweinitz. (Schweinitz Herb., Curtis Herb, 

 and Kew Herb. All as C. cpiphylla) . 



New York: Adirondacks. Peck. ( Albany Herb. ) . 



Lake George. Coker. Two colls. Under beech on twigs, and on leaves of 



maple and pine mixed, September 3, 1917. ( U. N. C. Herb.). 

 Vaughns. Coker and Burnham. Several colls, on leaves under beech, 



August 2, 1917; August 16, 1917; September 2, 1917. (U. N. C. 



Herb.). Spores exactly as in the Chapel Hill plants and all other 



essential points agreeing. Spores (of B. No. 90) 2.9-3.7 x 10-14/*. 



Tips often compressed and palmate in appearance, faintly greenish on 



drying; taste mildly bitterish, no odor. 

 Ithaca. Kauffman. (Bresadola Herb.). 



