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fleshy, brittle, homogeneous, slightly zonate, pale brown, darker 
toward base of stem ; stem stout, subcylindrical, somewhat ab- 
ruptly attenuate at base, glabrous or subpuberulent, light to pallid 
at top, becoming brownish toward base, 2-3 cm. long by 0.5-1 
cm. wide, solid, consubstantiate with pileus ; teeth short, stout, 
terete, tapering, acute, shortening toward stem and margin, 
almost snow white when fresh, becoming whitish to ash-gray in 
drying, 2 mm. or less long by 0.25-0.35 mm. wide, 5-8 in a sq. 
mm., somewhat decurrent as papillae ; spores hyaline, subglobose, 
minutely echinulate, 3.5-4 X 4~5 h - wide ; hyphae of trama hyaline, 
smooth, thin-walled, collapsing when dried, recovering in KOH, 
running parallel and interweaving closely, but separating with 
some dififlculty in KOH, slender, often irregularly contorted and 
uneven, septate without clamp-connections, segments long, irregu- 
lar, 4-10 /A wide, branching diffuse, interseptate ; odor faint, pleas- 
ant ; taste mild. 
On the ground in coniferous woods; late summer. 
The type specimens are in the author’s herbarium and were 
collected along the side of Bleecker pond near Gloversville, N. Y. 
Specimens of the same species have been collected in Vermont by 
Burlingham and are in the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium. 
This is the most remarkable species in this genus. Its fleshy 
substance is a radical departure from the usual characters of the 
species included here. At first it seemed to demand the recogni- 
tion of a distinct generic type, but the spore characters, the colora- 
tion, and even the peculiar odor of the plants pointed so strongly 
to affinity with the Phellodons that it seemed best to extend the 
boundaries of the genus so as to include this form at least for 
the present. Aside from its fleshy substance, it appears to be in 
every way a Phellodon. 
De Pauw University, 
Greencastle, Ind. 
