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65. C. fusiformis Sowerby, British Fungi, pi. 23$, 235. 1797; 

 Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 480. 1821; Hym. Eur. 674. 1874; Persoon, 

 Syn. Fung. 601. 1801 ; Myc. Eur. 1 : 178. 1822 ; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 

 6: 718. 1888; Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Rept. 23: 53. 1872; Mor- 

 gan, Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. Jour. 11: 89. 1888; Cotton <fc 

 Wakefield, Brit. Myc. Soc. Trans. 6: 184. 1919. Plate 8, fig. 66. 



Illustrations: Sowerby, loc. cit.; Bolton, Hist. Fung. pi. 110; 

 Hussey, 111. Brit, Myc. 1. pi. 18; Patouillard, Tab. Anal. Fung. 

 j.565; Cotton, Brit. Myc. Soc. Trans. 3. pi. 11. f.A. 



Fructifications simple or very rarely branched, densely tufted, 

 connate at the base, 5-8 cm. high, clear canary-yellow; smell 

 none when fresh, taste bitter; flesh whitish; clubs elongated, 

 spindle-shaped, tips acute, often becoming hollow and com- 

 pressed; internal structure of fine filaments 4-6 n thick, more 

 or less interwoven^ walls sometimes rough; occasional hyphae 

 with dark yellow contents; basidia with 4 sterigmata w r hich are 

 slightly curved; spores globose, even, minutely apiculate, 5-7 

 -8) m in diameter, at first yellow, then colorless. 



On ground in woods. August. 



Cotton and Wakefield add further: "Known amongst the 

 simple yellow species by the densely tufted habit, the canary- 

 yellow color and the bitter taste." 



C. fusiformis has been regarded as common in all parts of the 

 United States but it seems probable that with the heretofore in- 

 complete knowledge of the species, gatherings more properly 

 referable to C. aurantio-einnabarina, C. compressa, and C. platy- 

 clada have been lumped together here. 



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66. C. compressa Schweinitz, Am. Phil. Soc. Trans. N. S. 4: 



182. 1832; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 709. 1888. Plate 8, fig. 67. 



Type: in Herb. Schweinitz, a fragment in Curtis Herb. 



Distinctissima species, Dr. Kampman ex New Jersey com- 

 municavit. 



"C. majuscula, 2-3 uncias longa, ex ipsa basi crassiuscula vage 

 ramosa, ramis crassis non valde divisis, complanato compressia, 

 quasi canaliculars, apice obtusatis, deorsum attenuatis. Flavo- 

 alutacea." 



Clubs simple, densely tufted, more or less grown together at 

 the middle where in contact, hardly branched, 5-8 cm. high, 

 compressed in a common plane, yellow alutaceous, attenuated 

 below, apices obtuse; smell, taste, and the color of flesh not re- 



