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the gills just as in C. oclora, these lines still visible or absent at 

 maturity; surface finely puberulent when young and in protected 

 places until maturity, usually becoming smooth or nearly so from 

 the collapse of the tomentum; color in youth deep reddish tawny, 

 but soon fading to a dull brownish tan, the margin pale and some- 

 times zoned. Some plants are decidedly flesh color at maturity. 

 Flesh white, soft, 4-10 mm. thick in center, gradually thinning out- 

 ward, taste fungoid-musty ; odor slight, similar. 



Gills crowded, slightly decurrent, 2-2.8 mm. wide, some branched, 

 and in No. 2512 abundantly and conspicuously veined in most of 

 the plants (a few with inconspicuous veins) ; color pale creamy, in 

 drying becoming more like the cap color. 



Stem variable in size, 2.5-3.5 cm. long above ground, 5-15 mm. 

 thick, often deeply inserted, nearly equal, color of gills, nearly smooth 

 where exposed, but covered with soft cottony mycelium where pro- 

 tected and bound firmly to the substratum with it, center softly 

 stuffed and often hollowed by grubs. 



Spores (of No. 2512) not abundant, smooth, pip-shaped with the 

 small end curved, 2.4-4.5 x 5-7|U.. 



"We are referring this to C. mfundihuUformis because of its deep 

 reddish color (fading to tan), only slightly tomentose cap, crowded, 

 narrow gills, and spores like those of the European plant. A specimen 

 from Bresadola is just like ours and has spores 3.5-4 x 5.2-7,4|U,. Bres- 

 adola thinks that C. adirondackensis Pk. is the same, and they are 

 certainly very close. A collection of the latter by Peck from Bolton, 

 N. Y., is just like our plants in the dried state and has the same 

 spores (3.5-4.2 x4.5-7;it). However, there is a milk white plant found 

 at Asheville (Beardslee) and Blowing Rock (Coker) that is ver} 

 smooth and may conveniently be separated as C. adirondackensis 

 (which see). 



This species is very near C. sinopicoides, from which it may be 

 distinguished only in the most typical forms. In such cases the 

 stouter stem, larger size, more glabrous surface and the vein-like 

 ridges on the margin in youth and often until maturity serve to mark 

 it. The spores are alike, and I have come to the conclusion, after 

 several years of observation, that the two are only different forms 

 of the same species, the larger veined form growing most often under 

 cedars and pines, the smaller with smooth margin under deciduous 

 trees, but not confined to them. The latter often has short, obscure 



