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of which are cited below as L. subsimile, have their spores some- 

 what rough and may be specifically distinct from this species. 

 Nevertheless I am inclined to regard both collections as the 

 fully mature L. subsimile. The type of L. subsimile was pub- 

 lished as Curtis Herb. No. 4600, which appears to be an error for 

 4690, the number borne by the specimen to which other data 

 point as the specimen referred to by the description. Ellis notes 

 for his distribution, "Milk white when fresh. Spores white." 



Specimens examined: 

 Exsiccati: Ell. & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 2024, under the name 



Clavaria velutina. 

 New Jersey: Laning, 49, probable type (in Curtis Herb., 4690); 



Newfield, /. B. Ellis, in Ell. & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 2024. 

 Pennsylvania: E. Michener (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 56077). 



6. L. cervinum (Berk. & Curtis) Patouillard, Jour, de Bot. 

 3:26. 1888. Plate 5, fig. 9. 



Clavaria cervina Berk. & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. lo: 

 338. 1868; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 716. ISSS.— Clavaria pallida 

 Berk. & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. lo: 338. 1868; Sacc. 

 Syll. Fung. 6: 714. 1888. — Lachnocladium pallidum (Berk. & 

 Curtis) Patouillard, Jour, de Bot. 3: 26. 1888. 



Type: in Kew Herb, and Curtis Herb. 



Fructifications coriaceous, branched, becoming tawny olive in 

 the herbarium, hairy with hyaline, thin-walled 

 hairs 1 ^ m in diameter which protrude 10 n beyond 

 the basidia and are longer on the stem; branches 

 repeatedly forked, slender, with very acute tips; 

 spores hyaline, even, subglobose, 3f-4| m- 



Fructifications 4 cm. high. 



On dead wood. Cuba. July. 



The type of C. pallida is a little more densely branched than 

 that of C. cervina, but the specimens are so similar in other 

 respects that they can hardly be regarded as different species. 

 Patouillard published the spores as pale ochraceous, but I 

 find them hyaline as seen with the microscope. 



Specimens examined: 

 Cuba: C. Wright, 235, type (in Curtis Herb.); C. Wright, 256, 

 type of Clavaria pallida (in Curtis Herb.). 



