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4.8-5.5 x 5. 5-6.3|jl. Basidia 5.5-7.4^ thick, 4-spored (rarely 2- 

 spored) ; hymenium 100-130f/. thick, set with many small crystals; 

 hyphae 4.4-5. 5 p. thick, clamp connections few. 



Easily distinguished from others of the same shape and habit 

 by the deep rich orange-red color, solid flesh and subspherical, 

 smooth spores. 



There is a good collection of this from Schweinitz (Bethlehem, 

 Pa.) in the Curtis Herbarium. The plants look like ours and have 

 the same smooth, unshrunken tips like caps and the same spores, 

 5.1-6.5 x6.5-7.4ja. There is also at Kew a collection from 

 Schweinitz of similar appearance. American plants determined as 

 Clavaria miniata Berk. (Hooker's Lon. Journ. Bot. 2 : 516 (416 in 

 error). 1843) are almost certainly the present species, as indicated 

 both by appearance and spores (see below). The type of C. min- 

 iata at Kew Herbarium from Africa has about the same appear- 

 ance, and the spores, while not abundant enough to be convincing, 

 are apparently smooth, subspherical, 5.5-7.4pi thick. In Bresadola's 

 herbarium is a specimen of C. anrantia Cooke (Grev. 16 : 33. 1887) 

 from Victoria (No. 50, probably a part of type), which has ex- 

 actly the appearance of the present species in the dried state and 

 is probably a close relative. The spores are slightly different, 

 being a little more elongated, 4.5-5 x 7-7 A\f.. Clavaria straminea 

 Cotton (Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. 3: 265, 1910 and 3: pi. 11, 1909, 

 which is incorrectly labelled C. persimilis) has almost identical 

 spores, but is described as straw colored with a cinnamon yel- 

 low stem that is darker than the hymenium and as being odor- 

 less. It is hardly probable that our plant is the same as C. car- 

 dinal Boud. et Pat. (Jour, de Bot. 2: 341, pi. 8, fig. 2. 1888. 

 Also Icon. Myc. 1: pi. 174) which has the same color, size and 

 spores. There is a collection of it at Albany sent by Patouillard 

 which we have examined. They do not seem just the same as 

 ours, the tips not being set off in the dry plant by non-shrinking 

 and the color is not quite the same. Moreover, they grew on 

 the trunk of a fern, Todea barbara, brought to Paris from Aus- 

 tralia, while the American species grows on earth. The spores are 

 subspherical, 5.5f/. in diameter, and are like those of our plant. An- 

 other authentic plant of C. cardinalis from Patouillard at Kew is 



