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Mycologia 
Ceriomyces communis (Bull.) Murrill 
Common Ceriomyces 
Plate 92. Figure 6. X i 
The usual form of this very abundant and widely distributed 
species was figured and described in Mycologia for March, 1910. 
The form here represented is peculiar in having a bright-red, very 
finely tomentose cap which does not become rimose-areolate, and 
considerably smaller tubes than in the usual form. 
Ceriomyces illudens (Peck) IMurrill 
Deceiving Ceriomyces 
Plate 92. Figure 7. X i 
Pileus convex, 3-7 cm. broad ; surface dry, finely tomentose, 
olivaceous, yellowish-brown or grayish-brown, sometimes slightly 
tinged with red, especially in the center; context whitish or yel- 
lowish, unchanging, rather spongy ; tubes plane or convex in mass, 
adnate to adnexed, bright yellow to melleous without and within, 
mouths large, angular or subcircular, usually larger near the stipe ; 
spores oblong or subfusiform, olive-green fading to yellowish- 
brown tinged with green, 11-13 X4-5 ai; stipe nearly equal, usu- 
ally tapering at the base, glabrous, whitish or yellowish to light- 
bay above, pale-yellow below, 3-7 cm. long, mm. thick, 
coarsely reticulate entirely to the base in fully developed speci- 
mens, but only at the top in small plants. 
This species occurs in woods and copses from Vermont to 
Alabama in the eastern United States. The stipe is coarsely 
reticulate, the tubes bright-yellow, and the cap usually olivaceous 
to yellowish-brown. 
New York Botanical Garden. 
