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more or less deeply and unequally into a few lobes, sometimes 
divided to the stem and spreading so as to appear dimidiate, 
very often deeply divided and subdivided into many narrow 
and spreading divisions more or less dilated and whitish at the 
apex; stem erect or incurved, equal or tapering upward, some- 
times branched above, drying walnut-brown or pallid, villose; 
hymenium inferior, glabrous, even, fawn-color or vinaceous 
drab; spores unbrinous under the microscope, tuberculate, 7-9 
x 5-бд. 
Fructification 11-33 em. high, 1-3 em. broad; stem 1-2 cm. 
long, 1-3 mm. thick. 
On ground in groves of broad-leaved trees, especially under 
oak. New York and Pennsylvania to Illinois. July to Sep- 
tember. 
The upper surface of the pileus was originally described as 
glabrous, but it is minutely pubescent under a lens, or sometimes 
fibrillose. "This species is very perplexing by its close relation- 
ship to T. regularis. 'The multipartite pileus is the only char- 
acter which seems available to separate collections of the former 
from the latter species. If a given collection consists wholly 
of specimens with pileus many-parted and subdivided into nar- 
row divisions, or if it contains some such specimens in addition 
to others with more regular infundibuliform pileus, I refer the 
collection to T. multipartita, as in the cases of the collections 
cited below from C. O. Smith and Dr. C. H. Peck respectively. 
As yet, I know of no characters by which to assort and separate 
into their respective species specimens mixed together of typical 
T. regularis and those specimens of T. multipartita which have 
the pileus infundibuliform or merely cleft more or less deeply 
and unequally into а few lobes. "Therefore it is my opinion 
that T. multipartita is a variety of T. regularis, but the collec- 
tions which have so far been submitted to me, have been com- 
posed of too few fructifications to assure me that this opinion 
is correct. 
Specimens examined: 
Exsiceati: Ell. & Ev., №. Am. Fungi, 2806, under the name T. 
caryophyllea. 
