Order V. ClyA VARIED. Corda. 



Hymenium scarcely distinct from the hymenophore, vertical, 

 amphigenous, reaching to the apex, even, at length wrinkled. 

 The following genera are included, viz : 



Sparassis. — Fleshy, frondose, laciniate. 

 Clavaria. — Stem branching, dry. 

 Calockra. — Gelatinous, then horny. 

 Typhula. — Stem flaccid, thread-like. 

 P1STILI.ARIA. — Waxy, then horny. 



Genus LXVII. SPARASSIS. Fr. 

 Fleshy frondose, branches laciniate, 



S. Herbstii. Pk. 



Plant much branched, forming tufts four to five inches high 

 and five to six inches broad, whitish, inclining to creamy 

 yellow, tough, moist, the branches numerous, thin, flattened, 

 concrescent, dilated above and spathulate or fan-shaped, often 

 somewhat longitudinally curved or wavy, mostly uniformly 

 colored, rarely with a few indistinct, nearly concolorous, trans- 

 verse zones near the broad entire apices. 



Spores, subglobose, or broadly elliptical, .0002 to .00025 

 inch long, .00016 to .0002 broad. 



This species is evidently closely allied to S. spathulata, Schw., 



but differs especially in its paler color, with no rufescent hues, 



in its much more branching habit, and in the absence of any 



distinct zones. 



Prof. Peck writes as follows in a letter dated Auguit 25, 1894 : " That 

 was a splendid fungus you sent me by express. I believe it to be an unde- 

 scribed species of Sparassis. It comes near Sparassis spathulata, Schw., 



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