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orange gills and there are all color shades between deep cinnabar and 

 strong orange. Old plants may become very pale and blotched with 

 dull white. The spores partake of the color of the gills. Odor, 

 taste, size, shape, surface and spores are all identical in the different 

 color forms. 



Peck has described a small orange plant, 1-2.5 cm. broad, as C. 

 minor, and Atkinson has found it at Blowing Rock. In Chapel Hill 

 many plants of C. cinnaharinus are as small as this and I can detect 

 little if any other difference of consequence from the description. 

 However, not knowing these to be the same, I include C. minor with 

 the strong suspicion that it is not distinct. 



196. Battle's Park, near Dr. Battle's house, mixed woods, Sept. 14, 1910. 



Spores 4-6 x 6-9^. 

 371. Battle's Park, by branch, Oct. 18, 1911. 

 546. Battle's Park, near branch, Oct. 10, 1912. Photo. 

 1189. By branch southeast of Graded School, July 22, 1914. 

 1251. By Battle's branch, at Lover's Leap, Sept. 23, 1914. 

 1548. Low woods near Meeting of the Waters, June 18, 1915. Orange form. 



Spores exactly as in red form, except for color which was orange 



2)ink. 3.6-5.4 x 7.2-10^. 

 1556. Damp soil in hollow below Sphagum bed, July 19, 1915. Spores ellip- 

 tic, smooth, 4.6-5.4 x 7.2-10^. 

 1565. By old Raleigh Road, under pines northeast of Judge Brockwell's, 



June 20, 1915. Spores rosy pink. 

 1634. Damp soil by Meeting of the Waters branch, July 23, 1915. Spores 



a pretty rosy-pink color when fresh, elliptic, smooth, 3-5.4 x 6.8-8„. 

 2341. Woods, Chapel Hill. July 2, 1916. Photo. 



3265. Low place in deciduous woods, Battle's Park, May 30, 1919. Painting. 

 3360. By Battle's branch, June 24, 1919. Spores light orange color, 4-5.1 x 



7.4-9.3^. Painting. 



Asheville. Beardslee. 



Common in damp woods (as Hygrophorus). Curtis. 



10. Cantharellus minor Pk. 



This plant is probably only a form of C. cinmiharinus, as m'en- 

 tioned above. 



The following is from Murrill (N". Am. Flora 9: 169. 1910) : 

 "Pileus thin, fleshy, convex to expanded, irregular or depressed 

 at times, gregarious, 1-2.5 cm. broad; surface glabrous, subrugose, 

 ochraceous to orange ; margin inrolled at first, entire or repand : con- 



