[Vol. 9 

 12 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Fructifications large, about 15 cm. in diameter, gregarious, 

 much branched, very fragile, color pinkish buff, pale at first but 

 deeper later, the tips of the branches yellowish or very slightly 

 tinged with pink, every part turning violet and finally black when 

 bruised; taste slight, smell none; stem white at first, then deep 

 pinkish buff, rooting base absent; branches erect, cylindric or 

 flattened, elongated, distinctly grooved, 1 cm. thick below, 2 mm. 

 above, apices blunt; flesh white, solid: a few latex hyphae 

 present; basidia with 4 sterigmata; spores pale colored, 

 ochraceous in the mass, minutely granular, nearly even, 9-11 



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On the ground under beech trees. 

 Cotton and Wakefield add further: "C. f 



fragile plant, differing from C. botrytis in the fact that the 

 apices of the branches are yellowish, or at most slightly tinged 

 pinkish, and in the granular, not striate spores. It is distin- 

 guished from C. jlava and C. aurea by the pinkish buff color, 

 which is somewhat like that of C. stricta" 



C. jormosa has been reported from New England and North 

 Carolina by Berkeley & Curtis and by Atkinson, from New York 

 by Peck, from New Jersey and Pennsylvania by Mcllvane, and 

 from Ohio by Morgan and by Hard, but in no instance has it 

 been recorded that the specimens met the European test of 

 turning violet and finally black when bruised. 



7. C. flava Schaeffer, Icones Fung, pi 175. 1763; Persoon, 

 Comment. Clav. 43. 1797; Syn. Fung. 586. 1801; Myc. Eur. 

 1: 162. 1822; Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 467. 1821; Hym. Eur. 666. 

 1874; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 692. 1888; Peck, N. Y. State Mus. 

 Rept. 24: 81. 1872, and 48: 210. pi. 89. j. 1-4. 1896; Cotton & 

 Wakefield, Brit. Myc. Soc. Trans. 6: 169. 1919. 



I 'late 4, fig. 19. 



Illustrations: Schaeffer, loc, cit.; Peck, loc. cit. 



Fructifications large, branched, 8-13 cm. high, fleshy, fragile, 

 ochraceous, becoming paler on drying and reddish when bruised; 

 smell pleasant, taste mild; stem thick, white or tinged reddish; 

 branching irregular or irregularly dichotomous, repeated, axils 

 acute, not flattened; branches slender, cylindrical, erect, solid, 

 smooth or slightly wrinkled, apices blunt or pointed ; basidia with 

 4 sterigmata; spores pale ochraceous in the mass, almost hyaline 

 by transmitted light, narrowly elliptical, incurved at the base, 



