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for a month and is described in detail and beautifully illustrated 
in connection with his original description in the work cited 
above. I reproduce merely some simple outline sketches of 
C. taxophilus; this is a very distinct species. The specimens 
were found in Fall Creek Gorge and nowhere except under 
prostrate branches of Taxus, yet they grew on rotting twigs 
and leaves of other species as well as on pieces of T'azus. 
Specimens examined: 
New York: Ithaca, C. Thom, Cornell Univ. Herb., 15445. 
I3. C. unicolor Rav. Grevillea 1: 148. 1873. 
Plate 16. fig. 11, 12. 
C. corrugis Peck, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 26: 69. 1899. 
Type: in Ravenel, Fung. Car. II. 26. 
Fructifications solitary or cespitose, fleshy, with the flesh 
white, soft, soon shrinking and leaving the pileus hollow; 
pileus at first, elavate, obtuse, flesh-colored tinted with violet, 
soon obconic or turbinate, broadly convex or truncate, and 
often abruptly cerebriform at the upper end, glabrous, ochra- 
ceous buff, drying Rood's brown to Natal-brown, the margin 
obtuse, corrugated by the hymenial wrinkles; stem short, equal 
or tapering downwards, colored like or a little paler than the 
pileus; hymenium wrinkled or corrugated, colored like the 
pileus; spores white, 8-12 x 4-6 y. 
Fructifications 2-5 em. high; pileus 11-5 em. broad; stem 1-21 
em. long, 5-8 mm. thick. 
On ground in thin woods. Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, 
and South Carolina. October to January. 
This fungus presents strikingly the vagaries in the distri- 
bution of fungi. It was originally collected at Black Oak, 
South Carolina, in 1850, by Ravenel, in sufficient quantity so 
that he distributed the type collection in his exsiccati. Appar- 
ently, this fungus, whenever collected, was referred to other 
species until 1898, when members of the Boston Mycological 
Club found it in several localities in Massachusetts and it was 
adequately described by Peck, as C. corrugis, from specimens 
received from Dr. Francis. I have received no speciniens of 
this species since that season; I searched for it in vain for several 
years in the adjoining state, Vermont. I have compared the 
specimens of C. corrugis, received from Dr. Francis, with Peck's 
