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Peck^ described and illustrated Cantharellas brevipes in 1880. 
He has also recorded two other collections.® The fact that it is so 
rare in New York State and that it is really a Cantharellus ac- 
counts for its not being recognized as Persoon’s species. 
The illustrations in plates 93 and 94 show the appearance of 
the Neebish plants. The plants are usually quite regularly 
obconic or turbinate with the pileus truncate or slightly depressed 
and the acute margin even or slightly wavy as in plate 93. This 
is the form illustrated by Peck. The hymenium is a network of 
folds and wrinkles. The wrinkle-like lamellae are more nearly 
parallel toward the top and more reticulate below, the reverse of 
the condition in Cantharellus floccosus. Under favorable weather 
conditions the plant becomes broader and the margin is thin and 
lobed as in plate 94 /i. Sometimes these luxuriant forms grow in 
dense clusters as in B. Sometimes the plants appear branched 
from a common stem. Sometimes they are irregular and the 
lobes on the pileus very long as in Britzelmayr’s illustration (tab. 
698). The flesh of our plants is whitish. The colors vary con- 
siderably. The pileus is yellowish or umber with tinges of purple 
or violet. It becomes faded, scaly and pitted when old. The 
hymenium is usually deep violet with flesh-colored tints. A whole 
series of variously colored forms have been noted in Europe. 
It has been recognized already that the plants referred to as 
Craterellus clavatns, by Peck,® are Craterellus pistillaris Fries. 
Peck speaks of their close resemblance to Clavaria pistillaris and 
describes the margin of the pileus as obtuse and crenate. Cra- 
terellns pistillaris has been taken in this country for a form of 
Clavaria pistillaris by Atkinson^ and Lloyd ( 1 . c.). Fries said 
Craterellus pistillaris was frequently found in pine woods about 
Upsala where true Clavaria pistillaris was never found. It 
is interesting that our plants illustrated in plate 95 are found 
in coniferous woods at Neebish, Michigan, and we have never 
seen Clavaria pistillaris there. Only once has the plant been 
collected at Neebish, and then not in coniferous woods. It is 
4 Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 33: 21. pi. i, f. 18-20. 1880. 
5 Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 51 : 298. 1897. 
® Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 32: 35, 1880, and Bull. N. Y. State 
Mus. 2: 48. 1887. 
r Atkinson, Mushrooms, 203. 1903. 
