Clavarias of the United States and Canada 187 



Plants of this species first sent to Peck were considered by him 

 as a form of C. grandis, as is shown by a collection from Mr. 

 Burnham, so labelled by him at Albany. Since then the plant has 

 been found a number of times by Mr. Burnham near the same 

 spot, and Mr. Burnham and the author succeeded in finding a few 

 small specimens in the same place in September, 1917. The species 

 is in the grandis group, and is nearest C. longicaulis, which is 

 easily separated by the spores of quite different shape. The stem 

 of C. Broomei may extend a little way into the leaves but has no 

 rhizomorph and is soon dissipated into the white, rather scanty 

 mycelium. That our plants are C. Broomei is shown by the types 

 at Kew, which in the dried state have the same brownish, velvety- 

 looking surface, about the same shape, and the same long, spiny 

 spores, 5-7 x 12.5-19.5f*. 



Clavaria oblcctanea is probably the same, but the spore size is 

 not given and we have seen no authentic specimen. In the Bresa- 

 dola Herbarium there is a collection from Westphalia marked C. 

 nigresccns Brinkmann, but we can find no record of the publica- 

 tion of this species. The plants are the same as ours with the 

 characteristic spores, spiny, 5.5-7 x 14-19.5[a. We have received 

 from Romell (Archipelago of Stockholm) good examples of C. 

 Broomei. The spores are spiny, 5-6.5 x 11-16[/.. 



The fresh plants shown in the photograph are immature, with 

 the branches scarcely more than teeth as yet. The dried plants 

 shown are of mature form. 



New York : Vaughns. Collections below all in leaf mold in f rondose or 

 mixed woods — maple, beech and hemlock, R. C. Burnham's farm. B. 

 No. 74. August 13, 1915. Spores 4.8-5.6 x 13.5-15.8^. B. No. 98. Sep- 

 tember 3, 1917. Spores 4.8-6 x 12.5- 18.4/x. C. & B. No. 141. Septem- 

 ber 1, 1917. Spores 4.4-5.5 x 13.6-16/^. (All in U. N. C. Herb.) . There 

 is also one of Mr. Burnham's collections in the Albany Herbarium (as 

 C. grandis). 



Clavaria longicaulis Pk. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. 25: 371. 1898. 



Plates 72-74, 89, and 90 



Plants of small to moderate size, strict, narrow, distinctly 

 stalked, 2.5-9 cm. high, 1.3-4 cm. broad; stem about _ 1.3-4 cm. 

 long and 1.5-7 mm. thick, irregularly branched above into a tuft 

 of upright, closely pressed, terete and even or somewhat rugosely 



