18 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



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wrinkled; spores ochraceous, ovate or subelliptical, minutely 

 roughened or echinulate, 6-7.5 u long, 4-5 p broad. 



"Plant 3.7-5 cm. high; stem about 2.5 cm. long, 2.4 mm. thick. 



"Moist ground. Alabama. July. Earle. 



"A well-marked and peculiar species readily known by its long 

 stem, uniform dark brown color fading externally in the dry 

 plant to ochraceous and by the longitudinally wrinkled stem and 



branches." 



The type specimen is now tawny olive everywhere, flattened, 

 longitudinally wrinkled, and of rather equal diameter in all 

 parts; at least some basidia with 4 sterigmata; spores intensely 

 colored, finely echinulate, with spore body 6-8x4-5 u. The 

 spores are smaller and with smaller projections than those of 

 the three preceding species. 



16. C. xanthosperma Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 94: 21. 



1905; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 21: 431. 1912. Plate 3, fig. 15. 



Type: in N. Y. State Mus. Herb. 



"Stem very short, firm, solid, divided into numerous branches, 

 white, sometimes becoming red where wounded, ultimate 

 branches short, blunt or obtusely dentate at the apex, the axils 

 rounded, the whole plant white, becoming yellowish or cream- 

 colored with age; spores pale yellow, oblong, .0005-.0006 of an 

 inch long, .00016-.0002 broad, slightly and obliquely pointed at 



one end. 



"Woods. Smith town, Suffolk Co. August. 



"It forms tufts about 2 inches high." 



Inspection of the base of the fructifications indicates that they 

 probably grew on the ground; the fructifications are now warm 



buff to cinnamon-buff: basidia with 4 sterigmata; spores in pre- 



ed 



fiexu us, 14x4 |j. 



ins noteworthy by having a white fructification 

 1 colored spores ; perhaps the yellowish or cream color assumed 

 th aire is due to maturing soores. 



17. C. albida Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Rept. 41: 79. 1888; 



Sacc. Syll. Fung. 9: 249. 1891. 

 Tvne: in N. V. State Mus. Herb 



fi 



"Plants 2 to 4 in. high, whitish; stem short, thick, generally 

 tapering downwards, divided above into a few short, thick, much- 



