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2. T. anthocephala Bull, ex Fries, Syst. Myc. i : 433. 1821. 



Plate 4. fig. 1. 



Clavaria anthocephala Bull. Herb, de la France 2 : 197. pi. 1^52. 

 /. 1. 1789. 



Illustrations: Bulliard, Ihid. pi. 1^52. f. L-Sowerby, Col. 

 Figs. Eng. Fun. pi. i^^.-Berkeley, Outlines Brit. Fung. pi. 

 17. f. ^.-Dufour, Atlas des Champ, pi. 70. 



Fructification coriaceous-soft, somewhat ferruginous, drying 

 fawn-color or cinnamon-brown, inodorous; pileus pubescent, 

 divided to the stem into flaps which are dilated upwards and 

 fimbriate and whitish at the apex or divided into irregular, 

 branched, erect branches; stem simple, equal, villose; hymenium 

 even; spores pale umbrinous under the microscope, ranging from 

 angular-tuberculate to tuberculate-echinulate, 8-10 x 7-8ai. 



Fructifications 3-5 cm. high, 1-3 cm. broad; stem 1-1| cm. 

 long, 1-2 mm. thick. 



On the ground in woods. Massachusetts and Ohio to Louisi- 

 ana. June to August. Rare. 



Our specimens of T. anthocephala and T. palmata have the 

 same habit but may be separated, even when dried, by the fine 

 pubescence of the pileus visible with a lens, and by the villose- 

 tomentose stem of the former. The spores of T. anthocephala 

 are further slightly paler and have shorter spines with broader 

 bases than those of T. palmata. 



Specimens examined: 

 Austria: G. Bresadola. 



Massachusetts: Newton, W. G. Farlow (in Farlow Herb.). 

 New York: Van Cortlandt Park, N. Y. City, L. 0. Overholts 



(in Overholts Herb., 688). 

 Pennsylvania: Kitanning, D. R. Sumstine, 10; Bethlehem, 

 Schweinitz (in Herb. Schw.), the 614 of Syn. N. A. Fungi 

 under the name T. flabellaris. 

 North Carolina: Asheville, H. C. Beardslee, 0268. 

 Louisiana: St. Martinville, A.B. Langlois, unnumbered specimen y 

 and 1971, and by the same collector (in Lloyd Herb., 3000). 

 Ohio: Norwood and Linwood, C. G. Lloyd, 1472 and 02164 re- 

 spectively. 

 Kentucky: C. G. Lloyd, 1395. 



