Clavarias of the United States and Canada 191 



Clavaria cyanocephala B. & C. Journ. Linn. Soc. 10: 338. 1869. 

 C.Zippellii Lev. Ann. Sci. Nat., 3rd. ser., 11: 215. 1844. 

 C. echinospora B. & Br. Journ. Linn. Soc. 14: 75. 1875. 



(Not C. echinospora Boud. & Pat. or C. echinospora P. 



Henn.). 

 C. aeruginosa Pat. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 14: 189. 1898. 



Plate 90 



As this striking species of the C. grandis group occurs in Cuba 

 Porto Rico, and Trinidad, as well as in the Orient, we are includ- 

 ing it for its interest. It is not at all improbable that a number 

 of West Indian species may some day be found in Florida. 



In the New York Botanical Garden are specimens from Porto 

 Rico without a name. We find that in appearance as well as in 

 spores they agree with the present species. The spores are 

 strongly echinulate, 6-7.5 x 9-15 [x. According to von Hohnel 

 (Sitzungsb. d. Kaiserl. Akad. d. Wiss. Wien 118: 15. 1909), who 

 is probably right, C. cyanocephala and C. aeruginosa (from Java) 

 are the same as C. Zippellii (from Java). See note on C. Zip- 

 pellii by Bresadola in Ann. Myc. 5: 239. 1907. He gives the 

 spores as obovate, aculeate, 12 x 15-18[x, including the spines, the 

 basidia two-spored, 10-13 x 60-65[x; the entire fungus from gray 

 to chestnut-brown. The type of C. echinospora (from Ceylon) is 

 not .represented at Kew, but plants from Borneo (H. Winkler, 

 coll.) determined as the latter by Bresadola and now in his 

 herbarium are to all appearances the same and have identical 

 spores, which are strongly asperulate, 6-7.5 x 9-12.5. 



At Kew are plants from Trinidad (J. H. Hart, coll.) which 

 are labelled Lachnocladium tubulosum Fr. They are not the 

 latter, which is quite different, but the present species. 



The type of C. cyanocephala at Kew (Wright, No. 458, Cuba) 

 is dark brown and looks in every way like the Porto Rican plants 

 mentioned above. The spores are large, elliptic, spiny, 

 5.5-7.4 x ll-14[i.. The types are 5-6 cm. high, and up to 3.5 cm. 

 broad, the main branches few and long, the terminals rather 

 crowded. The original description is (trans.) : 



