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flesh-colored, perforate or imperforate at the apex; portion below 
spore bearing part tapering downward, white or reddish, mostly 
one layer of chambers thick. The chambers of the spore bear- 
ing part of the stipe have very massive walls—perhaps twenty 
layers of cells thick —and open as pits or winding tubes into 
the central cavity of the stipe; below this part they are thin 
walled, opening, if at all, through the outer wall. 
Growing about buildings and in gardens and thickets. New 
England, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina, various 
collectors; Ohio, Morgan ; Indiana, Underwood ; Wisconsin, Pammel. 
This fungus is quite variable with us. 1 have examined sev- 
eral collections made at points about Cambridge and Somerville, 
Mass., at Newport, R. I., and at East Galway, N.Y. Mr.C.H. 
Peck has kindly shown me the specimens in the New York State 
Herbarium of Corynites Ravenelii B. & C., collected by himself 
in New York, and of Cynophallus caninus ( Huds.) collected by 
Warne in the same state. Authentic specimens of Corynites 
Ravenelii B. & C. and of Corynites brevis B. & C. in the Curtis 
Herbarium were examined. My thanks are also due to Professor 
Ed. Fischer of Bern and Professor Chodat of Geneva for alcoholic 
specimens of European types of Mutinus caninus (Huds.) col- 
lected by Professor Chodat in Biel, Switzerland, in 1894, and 
procured for me by Professor Fischer. 
The careful examination and comparison of all of this 
material shows that there is no well marked character of group — 
of characters by which IM. Ravenelii (B. & C.) may be Sh 
1 view the 
part to be 
) from 
the lower part of the stipe than is generally th 
specimens. But upon splitting the plants longit 
show the same massive wall for the spore-bearing ; 
-or tubes opening into the central cavity of the stipe 
region and with the same chambered structure lowet dow does 
this reason, ‘‘spore-bearing part determinate” for J. TS 
not seem to be of value for separating it from 
a Foe 
