64 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



accepted. We have not yet met with this in the living state nor 

 have we seen a native specimen in any American herbarium, 

 though many are under this name. Most of such are C. helveola. 

 The following is Cotton's description in Massee's British Fungi 

 and Lichens, p. 434.* 



"Hymenophore simple or rarely with 1-2 short branches, cylin- 

 drical or compressed, tip blunt or pointed, deep yellow to rich 

 orange, flesh white, l-2y 2 in. high (spores colourless, sub-globose, 

 sharply warted, 5-6[x diam.). 



"Often confused with C. fusiformis, from which it differs by 

 its deeper colour, not growing in dense tufts, and globose, warted 

 spores. Among grass in woods, parks, lawns, etc. Common." 



Clavaria cchinospora** which seems certainly to be the same, 

 was separated from C. inaequalis principally on the strongly 

 warted spores. Cotton also thinks C. rufa the same (Trans. Brit. 

 Myc. Soc. 3 : 33. 1909). Clavaria geoglossoidcs Boud. and Pat. 

 (Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 8: 42, pi. 6, fig. 1. 1892) may be the same, 

 but we think there is an error in their interpretation of the spores, 

 which are described as smooth then sparsely warted, and some are 

 drawn smooth, while others are warted like those of C. inaequalis. 

 The assumption would then be that the smooth ones are immature. 

 A plant in the herbarium of the University of Paris (Rouen, 

 Boudier) labelled C. similis var. geoglossoides is evidently the same 

 as this. The name was apparently provisional and never pub- 

 lished. We have a collection of C. inaequalis from Epping Forest, 

 England (Cotton). Spores about 4.5-5.5f/. in diameter. 



Clavaria inaequalis is listed by Curtis as common in damp 

 woods but it is almost certain that his plant was not the one de- 

 fined above. 



Fries considers C. bifurca a synonym of C. inaequalis. In 

 Persoon's herbarium plants labelled C. bifurca may be this, but 

 we could find no good spores. We have examined plants of C. 

 similis from Ley den (Miss Cool) and from Westphalia in Bresa- 

 dola's herbarium and find the spores as described, about 5-7[* 

 thick and strongly warted. 



* For a fuller description, see Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. 6 : 189. 1919. 

 ** The name C. similis was substituted by the authors on finding the first published 

 name preoccupied. 



