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color, looks much more like our plant than like any other, and the 

 description fits unusually well. Fries treats C. sanguined as an- 

 other name for C. spinulosa, but Persoon notes the close relation- 

 ship to C. botrytis (also obvious in our plants) which is very un- 

 like C. spinulosa. Persoon says: "Stem subsucculent, red, 

 branches elongated, branchlets multifid, minute, yellowish. Rare 

 in forests. The figure referred to shows only a part of this 

 fungus, for the natural size is larger by half. The stem is mod- 

 erately thick, filled with a reddish juice, divided into many elong- 

 ated branches, which turn yellow toward the apex. The branch- 

 lets, on the contrary, are very slender, short, slightly bent, leather 

 color." 



Recognized by the pointed base and the red or brick-brown 

 color when rubbed or in age. The base even in youth is nearly 

 always streaked with these stains. All the plants we have found 

 so far have been reclining and one-sided. Easily distinguished 

 from C. rufescens by smaller size, different base, cauliflower-like 

 tips and different spores; from C. formosa by the simple terete 

 stem without grooves, by the dark stains, by cauliflower-like ter- 

 minals, and by the different spores. The short, crowded, closely 

 packed terminals and rather long parallel secondaries and tertiaries 

 give the upper half of the plant exactly the appearance of a cauli- 

 flower head, more so than in any other species. The tips are nearly 

 always more yellow than pink except in youngest plants, and are 

 never more than very pale creamy flesh-pink. It is in this tip color 

 sharply different from C. botrytis and C, botrytoides, not to men- 

 tion the red stains and other differences. 



Maire regards C. sanguinca as the same as C. flava, at least in 

 part. His plant has red stains but the spores are 4-5x9-12(1. 

 (Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 27: 450. 1911). 



North Carolina: Chapel Hill. No. 2629. Mixed woods near Battle's 

 Branch, July 10, 1917. A single plant, 7 cm. high, 5 cm. broad; stem 

 distinct, about 4 cm. long including the underground part, about half 

 buried in the ground, branching rather thickly and ending in numerous 

 small tips ; color pallid creamy white all over except the tips which are 

 tinted at first with pale yellow, but soon fade out, all parts turning a 

 deep rosy blood color when bruised and the base soon stained with this 

 color ; texture not very brittle, rather rigid, taste mild, odor very little, 

 but faintly like that of anise. Too young for spores. No. 2656. Damp 



