Hymeuomycetse, Clavariacese, Laclinoclaclium. 493 



consolidatis nec iimbilicatis sed obtusis vel obtuse dentatis. 



Hah. Boltou, Warren Co., Amer. bor. — Species haec deest iu 

 Sylloge, sed ubi descripta nobis ignotum, 

 28. Clavaria straminea Cotton, Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc III, pt. 4, 1910 i824 

 p. 265 (1911), tab. 12 fig. D sub Gl. jpersimiUs. — Simplex, pusiJla, 

 sparsa vel fasciculata, stramineo-pallida, aetate fuscescente ; cla- 

 vulis gracilibus, 3-5 cm. altis, 2-4 mm. crassis, cylindraceis vel 

 complanatis, levibus, apice plerumque acutis, stipite luteo-cinna- . 

 momeo satis distincto ; basidiis clavatis, 40-00 « 7-9 ; sporis liya- 

 linis, levibus, globosis, 5-7 [jl diam. basi minute apiculatis. 



Hah. ad terram graminosam in Britannia. — Affinis Cl. argiUaceae. 



Synon. sec. Cl. Ab. Bresadola in 1. c. 

 Glavaria lurida Kalcbbr. =: Laclmocladium divaricatum (Berk.) Pat. 



LACHNOCLADSUM Lev. — Syll. VI p. 738, IX p. 252, XI p. 139, XIV 

 p. 239, XVI p. 209, XVII p. 197, XXI p. 436. 



1. Lachnociadium Vantlerystii Bres., Cbamp. Congo belge, BuU. Jard. i825 

 Bot. Bruxelles IV, (1913) p. 25.— Caespitosum; truucis congestis 

 8-15 mm. longis, 2-4 mm. crassis, mox ramosis, ramis repetito 2-4- 

 fldis, subcompressis, rugulosis, uno bitere glabris, altero pubescen- 

 tibus, luride alutaceis, axillis angulatis ; ramulis fusco-rufescenti- 

 bus, apicibus acutis 2-4-fidis; sporis byalinis, globosis vel subglo- 

 bosis, 6-7 |i, diam. vel 7-8^6-7; basidiis clavatis, 20-25^6-7; liy- 

 phis contextus tenuibus, irregularibus, hyalinis, 4-12 [jl crassis. To- 



tus fungus 6-8 cm. altus, 3-6 cm. latus. 



Hah. ad terram, Eegion des Bambata, Congo Africa (R. P. Al- 



LARD). 



2. Lachnocladium brunneum Bresad., Ann. Mycol. IX, 1911, p. 272. — i826 

 Trunco tuberiformi, fere subterraneo, 1,5 cm. alto crassoque, e my- 

 celio albo obducto ; ramis repetito-dichotomis, axillis compressis, 

 arcuatis, latere fertili laevibus, brunneis, latere sterili puberulo- 

 rugulosis, luride ochraceis, apicibus 1-3-chotomis, acutis, substantia 

 spongioso-coriacea, luride straminea, ex hyphis fumosis, 2-7 (x crassis, 

 basidiis clavatis, collapsis ; sporis carneo-fulvis, ellipticis, 7-8 * 

 3,5-4-5. — Totus fungus 8 cm. altus, 4-5 cm. latus. 



Hah. ad terram, Kinkosi Congo Africa (VANDERYST).--Habitus 

 j)rorsus Glavariae, ita ut forma et colore Glavaria spinulosa videtur, 

 sed substantia et hymenium Lachnocladii . 



3. Lachnocladium echinosporum Bresad., Ann. Mycol. IX, 1911, p.511.— i827 



