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344 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
On sandy ground in swamp. Florida. September. 
Only a single fructification was collected; the description is 
based upon this dried specimen. The species is distinguished 
by its fan-shaped, triangular pileus and the comparatively long 
and slender stem. Its characters are those of a true Craterellus 
and yet such that we cannot regard it as a flabellate form of any 
other species. 
Specimens examined: 
Florida: Sorrento Swamp, R. Thaxter, type (in Farlow Herb.). 
17. C. Humphreyi Burt, n. sp. Plate 17. fig. 22. 
Type: in Burt Herb. and in Humphrey Herb. 
Fructifications gregarious, fleshy, moderately tough and 
flexible, entirely white, usually with the pileus standing out 
horizontally at the apex of the erect stem; pileus reniform, 
dimidiate, sometimes clasping behind, convex, becoming plane 
or somewhat depressed, usually even, dry, minutely pubescent, 
the margin entire, even or slightly crisped; stem lateral, erect, 
often bent at right angles just before joining the pileus, cylindric 
below, equal, solid, pubescent; hymenium nearly even, some- 
times radiately venose near the stem, brittle when fresh; 
spores white, even, subglobose, 33-4} x 35 и. 
Fructifications 3-7 cm. high; pileus 6 mm. - 2 em. long, 1-32 
em. broad, 2 mm. thick; stem 22-6 em. long, 2 mm. thick. 
On humus and among mosses in low swampy thicket. Wash- 
ington. October. 
Тһе habit of this curious species is very suggestive of Hydnum 
auriscalpium; many of the specimens have the erect stem bent 
at right angles near the apex so that the pileus extends out in a 
horizontal plane. Sometimes the stem branches at its upper 
end and bears two pilei. "The pubescence on the stem is rather 
coarse and is most abundant towards the base. АП parts of 
the fructification were rather brittle in vegetative condition, 
and broke when bent too far. It is а connecting species be- 
tween Craterellus and Arrhenia, but with the hymenium rather 
too even for Arrhenia, in my opinion. 
Specimens examined: 
Washington: Hoquiam, C. J. Humphrey, 1886, type. 
