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those of C. Ravenelii and C. texensis in many respects, but the 

 fructifications are much smaller and more numerous than in 

 either of these species, and their various parts are also much 

 smaller and some of the spores are colored. 



Specimens examined: 

 Louisiana: Bohemia, Plaquemines Co., A. B. Langlois, 864(1, 

 type, in Burt Herb, and also (in U. S. Dept. Ag. Herb.); 

 A. B. Langlois, 864 (in U. S. Dept. Ag. Herb.). 



19. C. fasciculata Schw. ex Berk. & Curtis, Jour. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila. 3 : 207. 1856. Plate 19. fig. 17. 



Cantharellus fasciculatus Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. N. S. 

 4: 153. 1831. — C . fasciculatus Schw. in Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 5: 

 495. 1887. — Cyphella fasciculata Berk. & Curtis, Grevillea 2: 

 6. 1873. — Solenia anomala Pers. var. orbicularis Peck, Rep. N.Y. 

 State Mus. 47: 168 (42). l^M.— Cyphella fulva Berk. & Rav. 

 Grevillea 2: 5. 1873. — C. Ravenelii Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 6: 672. 

 1888. — C. Saccardoi Sydow, in Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 14: 233. 

 1900. — C.furcata Berk. & Curtis, Grevillea 2: 5. 1873. 



Type: in Herb. Schweinitz. 



Fructifications gregarious, sometimes fascicled, pezizoid, 

 tawny olive; pileus stipitate, cup-shaped, extended vertically or 

 pendulous, tomentose with tawny-olive, even-walled hairs 

 which are flexuous or somewhat spirally curved towards the 

 tips, the margin strongly inrolled ; stem short, variable in length, 

 cylindric, tomentose, colored like the pileus; hymenium concave, 

 even, drying olive-buff; spores hyaline, even, cylindric, slightly 

 curved, 7-9 x 2-2 1 /x, borne four to a basidium. 



Fasciculate clusters about 2 mm. in diameter, 1 mm. high; 

 fructifications |-1 mm. in diameter, 1-2 mm. high; stem |-1 

 mm. long, ^-| mm. thick. 



On bark of twigs of Alnus in swamps and rarely on Prunus 

 virginiana and Pyrus Malus. Canada and Newfoundland to 

 South Carolina and westward to Wisconsin. Throughout the 

 year, more highly fasciculate from autumn to spring. Common. 



This fungus is very common on dead twigs of Alnus in swamps. 

 The color is similar to that of Solenia anomala but the fructifi- 

 cations are rather larger and more cup-shaped than those of the 

 latter and have the hymenium merely concave rather than lining 

 a tube. The fructifications burst out through the outer bark 



