54 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



[Vol 9 



C. ericetorum Persoon, Obs. Myc. 2: 60. 1799; Myc. Eur. 1: 



180. 1822; Boudier, Icon<>s, pi. 175. 1905-10. 



Illustrations: Fries, Obs. Myc. 2. pl.o. f.3; Boudier, loc. cit.; 



Patouillard, Tab. Anal. Fung, f.585. 



Clubs simple, gregarious, 2-5 cm. high, pale greenish yellow, 



fragile, cylindric or flattened, with one or more grooves, surface 

 often minutely channelled,, apex blunt; smell none, taste like 

 tallow; stem distinct, yellowish; basidia with 4 sterigmata; 

 spores hyaline, even, 10-11x5-6 n (or sometimes 10-14x6-7 m). 



In heathy places. 



Cotton and Wakefield add further: "This species is a typical 



plant of heather moors and similar heathy places/' 



84. C. corynoides Peck, N. Y. State Aius. Kept, 31: 39. 1879; 

 Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 726. 1888. Plate 9, fig. 86. 



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



''Small, simple, clavate; club obtuse, yellowish, or cream col- 

 ored, gradually narrowed below and losing itself in the short white 

 stem. 



"Gregarious, about half an inch high. 



"Damp ground by roadsides. Adirondack Mountains. Aug 



Clubs now pinkish buff in all parts; spores hyaline, even, 



curved, 6 7x2^-3 m> very similar in long tapering base to those 



of C. gracillima. 



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85. C. gracillima Pock, N. Y. State Mus. Kept. 28: 53. pi 1. 



j.9. 1876; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 725. 1888. Piute 9, fig. 87. 



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



"Simple, very Blender, smooth, about V high, rather tough; 

 club acute or acuminate, pale yellow, a little thicker than the 



long slender distinct bright yellow shining stem. 



"Among moss in a pasture. North ville. August. (Plate 1, 



fig. 9.) 



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In this species, as in C. argillacea, the hymenium is quite 



distinct from the 4 stem. 



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lewhat rugose, 7-8x3 1 / 1 >-4i/> m- I noted the spores as 

 when examining them in aqueous Drenaration but am 



ine mount. 



this upon reexamining them 



