176 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



holm are three collections determined as C. crispula. One is on 

 rotten wood and looks exactly like our plants and has the same 

 spores ("yellow, asperulate, 4-5 x 2.5-3[/.") ; another on spruce 

 leaves and moss also looks like our No. 120, open and crisped, 

 and has same spores ("asperulate, cremeo-ochraceous, 4.5-5x3- 

 3.5^. Basidia 16-20x 4-5 {jl; hyphae 2-3 (-6 )(/."); the third, ap- 

 parently on rotten wood or trash, is 3.5-5 cm. high and looks more 

 like our southern variety australis. At Kew Gardens under the 

 name C. crispula are a variety of species, as C. stricta, C. cristata, 

 and C. pyxidata. In the opinion of Fries C. canaliculata Ehrenb. 

 (Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop. Nat. Cur. 2 : 213, pi. 14, figs. 1-9. 

 1821) is also a synonym of the present species. We have re- 

 ceived 'several collections from Romell labelled C. abictina, one of 

 which is the present species, with spores minutely rough, 3 x 4-5 p. 

 Another labelled "C. abictina or probably C. cyancscens v. Post" 

 (Stockholm) is also this species. 



Clavaria crispula has been reported from a number of states, 

 as South Carolina, New England, Maine, Ohio, Illinois, Penn- 

 sylvania, but it is not at all certain that any of these reports are 

 based on the plant that we have described. For example, a col- 

 lection in the Albany Herbarium from Greig, N. Y., is not this 

 but C. stricta, as is one in the New York Botanical Garden 

 Herbarium from Fern, Ind. (Underwood). In the Schweinitz 

 Herbarium is a plant with spine-like points that is labelled C. 

 crispula but is not this. In the Curtis Herbarium are several col- 

 lections labelled C. crispula, one of which is on fir or spruce leaves 

 from Europe and looks like C. flaccida. Another collection from 

 New England (Sprague) has the appearance of a tall slender C. 

 Kunzci and has spores like that species. This last is labelled 

 "crispulae affinis sed differt." 



Illustrations: Bischoff. Kryptogamenkunde, fig. 3472 (as C. crispula). 

 1860. 

 Britzelmayr. Hymen. Siidb., Clavariei, fig. 52 (as C. crispula). 

 Burt. Ann. Mo. Bot. Card. 9 : pi. 4, fig. 27 ( as C. pusilla ) . 1922. 

 Ehrenburg. As cited above (as C. canaliculata). We have not seen this. 

 Flora Danica, pi. 2272, fig. 1 (as C. crispula). 1839. 



Payer. Botan. Cryptog., p. 3, fig. 2, and p. 57, figs. 238-239 (as C. 

 crispula). 1868. 



