1919] 



BURT THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XI 277 



Specimens examined: 

 Exsiccati: Ell. & Ev., Fungi Col., 808, type distribution under 



the name Lachnocladium semivestitum. 

 West Virginia: Nuttallburg, L. W. Nuttall, in Ell. & Ev., Fungi 



Col., 808. 



10. L. Atkinsonii Bresadola in Atkinson, Jour. Myc. 8: 119. 

 1902; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 198. 1905. 



Type: in Cornell Univ. Herb., 4216. 



Fructifications somewhat coriaceous; stem elongated, com- 

 pressed-canaliculate, pallid, tomentose, 5-6 cm. long, 1 cm. 

 thick, somewhat quadrifid at the apex; branches compressed, 

 sulcate, repeatedly verticillate-, or dichotomo-, divided, tomen- 

 tose on the sterile side, lurid ochraceous; branchlets somewhat 

 terete, furcate at the apex, straw-yellow; spores hyaline or some- 

 what straw-colored, even, amygdaliform-oblong or somewhat 

 cylindric, 9-10X4|-5^ n; basidia clavate. 



Dimensions of the branched portion 6-7 cm. high, 5-6 cm. 

 broad. Blowing Rock, North Carolina. August. 



A beautiful species approaching the Clavariae but included in 

 Lachnocladium on account of having the hymenium unilateral 

 and the stem evidently somewhat waxy. 



The above is a translation of the original description of this 

 species of which I have seen no specimens. 



11. L. guadelupense (L^veill^) Patouillard, Jour, de Bot. 

 3: 33. pi l.f.7. 1889. 



Merisma guadelupense Leveill^, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. III. 5: 

 157. 1846. — Pterula guadalupensis (Leveille) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 

 6: 742. 1888. 



Illustration: Patouillard, loc. cit. 



Type: in Museum of Paris Herb., according to Leveill^. 



Fructification with very short stem, coriaceous, branched; 

 branches very thin, elongated, fastigiate, compressed, dichoto- 

 mous, becoming fuscous; terminal branchlets very short, naked, 

 acute; spores brown, warted, apiculate at base, 12X6 m- 



Stem hardly 1 cm. long. 



Guadeloupe. 



