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Mycologia 
3-7 cm. broad ; surface smooth, dry, minutely but densely tomen- 
tose, orange-brown, fulvous, or reddish-brown ; margin thin, usu- 
ally paler ; context white, firm, nutty in flavor, unchanging when 
wounded ; tubes depressed, sinuate, short, watery-white becom- 
ing light-yellow to dark-cremeous, mouths angular, small, stuffed 
when young, edges thin, entire ; spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline 
to pale-yellowish, 8-9 X 4-5-5-S ; stipe subattenuate above and 
below, cylindric or somewhat flattened, tomentose, bright-brown, 
lighter at the apex, brittle, loosely stuffed, with a small cylindric 
cavity at the center, 4-5 cm. long, 6-10 mm. thick. 
This species is common in Europe and the United States in 
sandy soil at the edges of woods. It is rather small, and varies 
in color from orange-brown to chestnut; the flesh is white, un- 
changing, of mild flavor, and edible. 
Ceriomyces auriporus (Peck) Murrill 
Golden-pored Ceriomyces 
Plate 80. Figure 2. X i 
Pileus circular, plano-convex, 2-4 cm. broad, 0.5-1 cm. thick; 
surface reddish-brown or yellowish-brown, rarely grayish-brown, 
sometimes brown with a reddish-yellow tint or reddish-brown in 
the center and olivaceous toward the margin, glabrous or minutely 
tomentose, slightly areolate at times with age, the interstices ap- 
pearing yellow, usually dry, but somewhat viscid in wet weather ; 
margin even, thin, somewhat obtuse, slightly inflexed on drying, 
concolorous ; context firm, fleshy, 3-5 mm. thick, white, unchange- 
able, tinged with red under the cuticle, at first mild, then un- 
pleasant to the taste, the cuticle decidedly acid; tubes plane or 
convex, adnate or nearly free, with a broad shallow depression 
about the stipe, 3-5 mm. long, bright golden-yellow, unchanging, 
even after years in the herbarium, mouths concolorous, variable 
in size, small and circular when young, medium or large and 
irregularly polygonal when old, edges thin, entire ; spores oblong- 
ellipsoid, curved at one end, lemon-yellow, 8-10 X 4-5 /^; stipe 
central, short, slender, curved, tapering upward, nearly glabrous, 
pulverulent under a lens, slimy in wet weather, concolorous or 
paler, slightly striate above from the decurrent edges of the tubes, 
solid, white or discolored-yellowish tinged with red within, 2-4 
cm. long, 4-8 mm. thick. 
Common in thin, dry woods and on shaded roadsides from New 
England to Alabama, and readily distinguished by its beautiful 
