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Stem 4-5 cm. long:, up to 5 mm. thick, nearly even below, coated 

 with and fadinjr into the thick white mycelium. Color of cap, when 

 young nearly white. At top finely graniilose and usually with a 

 little collar of cogs about 1 mm. below the tip, middle region faintly 

 fibrous, basal coated with white mycelium. Texture fibrous, rather 

 brittle, inside stuffed, sometimes partially hollow in age. 



Spores (on No. 1881) decidedly cream in bulk, elliptic, smooth, 

 4.5-5 X 5-7.2/x. 



Our plants differ from the typical C. odora in the roughish-squara- 

 ulose cap, quite close gills, hairy margin marked with dots. The 

 loss of greenish color at maturity may also occur in the typical form. 

 Peck's description of his C. animria (N. Y. St. Mus. Rep. 32: 26. 

 1879) is much more like our form, with narrow, crowded gills and 

 the cap "adorned with minute, innate fibrils, slightly pruinose and 

 substriate on the margin." In some of our collections this squam- 

 ulose tendency is carried much further than this, the cap being fur- 

 nished with rough, raised lines which meet in pairs and end in a free 

 upright wisp. These wisps may disappear in age. The margin, 

 too, is distinctly short-hairy, with hairs arranged in two or three 

 more or less distinct concentric lines about 1 mm. apart. We find 

 the spores of Peck's type to be 4.2-5.5 x 7.4-8^^. 



For illustrations see Murrill in Mycologia 7: pi. 166. 1915 (as C. 

 vircns. This shows a rough cap) ; Mcllvaine, Am. Fungi, pi. 24, fig. 

 9; Marshall, Mushroom Book, pi. 15 (as C. virens) \. White, Conn. 

 Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull. 3 : pi. 17. 1905. For the European 

 form of C. odora see Gillet, Champ. Fr., pi. 113 (85, 134) ; Sowerby, 

 Engl. Fungi, pi. 42; and Bulliard, Herb. Fr., pi. 556, fig. 3; Patouil- 

 lard. Tab. P'ung., No. 404. 1886. 



457. On dead bark and leaves near Battle's Branch, September 28, 1912. Spores 



light creamy ochraceous, 4.9 x 7.4^. 

 1881. Among decaying oak leaves, Lone Pine Hill, October 3, 1915. 

 1883. Under pines and cedars sonth of the iron mine, October 3, 1915. 

 3562. Mixed woods west of Pittsboro Eoad, October 31, 1919. Odor distinct, 



margin ridged, olive colors in youth. 

 4669. Mixed woods by Fern Walk, October 3, 1920. Spores pale buff, smooth, 



elliptic, with one large, distinct oil drop, 3.7-5 x 5-7.4;^. 

 4896. On bank of Battle's Branch, October 5, 1921. 



Reported by Schweinitz as C. odora. 



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