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found the spores of the type in Herb. Schw. 8-9 х 35-4 и, or 
a little slenderer than in northern specimens. Hard states 
that the spores are yellowish or salmon colored in the mass 
when collected. This species is edible. 
Specimens examined: 
Exsiceati: Ell. & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 1921. 
Massachusetts: Sprague (in Curtis Herb.) ; Milton, H. Webster. 
Connecticut: East Hartford, C. C. Hanmer, 2391, 2468 (both 
in Hanmer Herb.). 
Pennsylvania: West Chester, B. M. Everhart, Ell. & Ev., N. 
Am. Fungi, 1921. 
West Virginia: Eglon, C. G. Lloyd, 02292. 
North Carolina: „Schweinitz, type (in Herb. Schweinitz); 
Blowing Rock, G. F. Atkinson, 4318. 
South Carolina: Clemson College, P. H. Rolfs, 1830. 
Alabama: Peters (in Curtis Herb., 4539, and in Kew Herb.), 
the cotype and type respectively of C. lateritius; Auburn, 
Ғ. S. Earle (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 4928). 
Ohio: A. P. Morgan (in Lloyd Herb.). 
Kentucky: С. G. Lloyd (in Lloyd Herb.). 
Mexico (?): Botteri, 27 (in Curtis Herb.). If the stem is hollow 
this specimen is C. odoratus. 
3. C. odoratus Schw. ex Fries, Epicr. 532. 1836-1838. 
Plates 15, 16. figs. 8-10. 
Merulius odoratus Schw. Schrift. d. Naturforsch. Gesell., 
Leipzig, 1: 91. 1822.—Cantharellus odoratus Fries, Elenchus 
Fung. т: 51. 1828.—C. confluens Berk. & Curtis, Jour. Linn. 
бос. Bot. 9: 423. 1867. 
Type: in Herb. Schweinitz. 
Fructifications gregarious, sometimes cespitose, simple or 
branched, egg-yellow; pileus thin, convex, then depressed and 
somewhat cyathiform, sometimes pervious, yellow, the margin 
deflexed, often lobed or irregular; stem cylindric or somewhat 
tapering towards the base, concolorous with the pileus, hollow 
or cavernous; hymenium even or somewhat rugose-wrinkled, 
ochraceous orange or with a reddish tinge approaching San- 
ford’s brown; spores even, 7-9 x 4-5 и. 
Fructifications 3-7 ст. high; pileus 2-9 em. broad; stem 2-4 
em. long, 3-8 mm. thick. 
