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dried plants of the former are blackish. Its spores are not known. 

 A collection from Sweden sent us by Romell and determined by 

 Bresadola as C. condensate/, is almost certainly our C. stricta, as is 

 also another European collection in Bresadola's own herbarium. 

 Romell's plant grew on wood, has the same appearance and the 

 same spores, which are about 4 x 8.5(/., nearly smooth. Bresadola 

 gives the habitat of C. condensata as both fir and f rondose woods, 

 and his plate (Fungi Tridentini, pi. 101) shows it on coniferous 

 leaves and does not look much like anything we have seen. But 

 Bresadola has also determined as C. condensata a quite different 

 plant like our C. abietina of pine woods. Three other collections 

 sent us by Romell and determined as C. condensata by von Post, 

 Romell, and Massee are either C. stricta or C. apiculata. This is 

 also true of the collection in Rabenhorst, Pazschke Fung. Europ. 

 No. 4144, labelled C. condensata, collected by Hennings at Marchia 

 under bushes in twigs and pieces of wood, September, 1896. The 

 appearance of the latter in the dry state is identical, the flocculent 

 mycelium, color and form the same; spores 3.7-4.5 x 7.5- 10[/.. 

 Fries gives C. rubella Schaeff. as a synonym of C. condensata, 

 and Bresadola has a plant on wood under the former name which 

 is like C. stricta. It is possible that the real C. condensata of 

 Fries is not this species, but C. decurrens var. australis, which see. 

 Plants of C. stricta from Cotton (on rotting wood, Kew Gardens. 

 England) are just like ours. We agree with Cotton that C. Kew- 

 ensis is this species. The type at Kew looks the same and has the 

 same spores, nearly smooth, 3.6-4.4 x 6-7.5[/.. Clavaria pruinella 

 Cesati in Rabenhorst's Fungi Europ. Exs. Cent. 5, No. 14, 1861, 

 is probably a form of C. stricta, but is said to grow on earth, not 

 wood. 



Peck describes a var. fumida which differs only in having a 

 dingy, smoky brownish hue ( Rept. N. Y. St. Mus. 41 : 86. 1888). 



Illustrations: Berkeley. Outlines, pi. 18, fig. 5. 1860. 

 Britzelmayr. Hymen. Siidb., Clavariei, figs. 25 and 83. 

 Burt. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 9: pi. 4, fig. 21 (as C. leucotephra) . 1922. 

 Clements. Minnesota Mushrooms, fig. 74. 1910. 

 Dufour. Atlas Champ., pi. 69, fig. 154. 1891. 

 Flora Danica, pi. 1302, fig. 1. 1806. 



