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Mycologia 



was just long enough to permit of the formation of the sporophore 

 in the light. 



As Schizophyllum commune (S. alneum of some authors) is 

 normally astipitate, this case of adaptation to conditions is worthy 

 of notice, and the name, form stipitatum, might be conveniently 

 employed to designate such deviations from the type. The speci- 

 mens were not kept, unfortunately. 



While the writer was located at Chico he also noted that this 

 species, in its normal state, is not infrequent on wounds in the bark 

 of orange trees. 



Pub. by permission Sec. Agr. 



Louis C. C. Krieger 



Hygrophorus caprinus 



A fine cluster of this species was sent to me last October by 

 Miss Eliza B. Blackford, who collected it in low, swampy places 

 in coniferous woods at Ellis, Massachusetts, where she has noticed 

 it for ten years or more during October and early November. 



The original description by Scopoli (Fl. Carn., ed. 2. 2: 438. 

 1772) is brief, but quite suggestive : " Pileus planiusculus. Lamel- 

 lae amplae, continuae, simplices et ramosae. Stipes filamentosus. 

 Habitat in subsylvestribus herbidisque locis. Pileus laevis ; trium 

 unciarttm diametro, a Capris avide quaesitus. Stipes digiti humani 

 crassitie, plenus, nudus, solitarius, basi tenuior." The specific 

 name was selected because goats were so fond of it. 



A more detailed description was published by Albertini and 

 Schweinitz in 1805 (Consp. Fung., p. 177) under their Agaricus 

 camarophyllus fuligineus. Their variety atramentosus is quite 

 different from our plant, the pileus being atrocoeruleous in color. 



Krombholz gives a fair representation of the American form 

 under Agaricus elixus Sow. in his plate 72, figure 22, but the other 

 two figures are different. Hygrophorus fuligineus Frost is dark- 

 colored and the gills are white, but the entire hymenophore is 

 heavily covered with slime. 



Fries transferred this species to Hygrophorus in 1838 and 

 Karsten placed it in Camarophyllus in 1879, using Scopoli's origi- 



