[Vol. 9 



20 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



"Plant 3-6 inches high, 2-4 inches broad in the widest part, 

 with the short stem about 1 inch thick. In woods and groves. 



Sandlake. August 



"The flesh of the stem when cut or broken slowly assumes a 



smoky brown color." 



Fructification now tawny olive; spores pale colored, barely 



rough under immersion objective, flexuous, 13x4-4 1 /o M- 



The type of C. crassipes has a thicker stem than that of C. 

 secunda but is very similar in other characters. 



20. C. testaceoflava var. testaceoviridis Atkinson, Ann. Myc. 



6: 58. 11)08; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 21: 427. 1912. Plate 3, fig. 17. 



Type: in Cornell Univ. Herb. 



"Plants clustered, extreme bases slightly joined; tufts 4-5 cm. 

 high, 3-4 cm, broad; trunks short, 1-2 cm. high, 4-6 mm. stout, 



above abruptly branched, terminal branches somewhat enlarged 

 and pluridentate ; trunks and branches pale drab, tips olive green 

 when fresh; spores oblong, roughened, 10-12x4 m.-C. U. herb., 

 No. 10593, ground, woods, Blowing Rock, N. C, A. B. Troyer, 

 Aug. 19 Sept. 22, 1901." 



The fructification is now everywhere fuscous, and the smaller 

 branches longitudinally rugose; spores slightly colored, rough, 

 10-12X4-4M> M . 



21. C. abietina Persoon in Roemer, Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 117. 

 1794; Comment, Clav. 46. 1797; Syn. Fung. 5S8. 1801; Myc. 

 Eur. 1: 164. 1822; Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 469. 1821; Hym. Eur. 

 671. 1874; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 701. 1888; Morgan, Cincinnati 

 Soc. Nat. Hist. Jour. 11: 89. 1888; Cotton & Wakefield, Brit. 

 Myc. Soc. Trans. 6: 174. 1919. Plate 5, fig. 28. 



Illustrations: Cooke, Handb. 1: 330. text f. 88; FL Dan. pi. 

 , f. 2; Greville, Crypt. FL pi. 117 ; Hard, Mushrooms, text 

 f. 390; Patouillard, Tab. Anal. Fung. /. 566. 



Plants much branched, forming spherical tufts 3-5 cm. high, 

 tough, deep dull ochraceous in color, becoming greenish when 

 bruised; smell strong, taste bitter; stem short, thick, whitish, 

 downy, with a slightly rooting base, becoming greenish ; branches 

 slender, 1-2 mm. thick, erect, repeatedly forked, cylindrical or 

 compressed, longitudinally wrinkled when dry, apices pointed 

 or bifid, axils acute; basidia with 4 sterigmata; spores deep ochra- 

 ceous in the mass, copious, finely rough, pip-shaped, 7-10x3-5 m 

 (average 7-8x3-5 p). 



