200 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



TYPHULA 



Plants small, simple or slightly branched ; stalk filiform, flaccid, 

 very distinct [exceptions] from the slender, cylindrical to sub- 

 clavate club which is fleshy or waxy or toughish. Basidia clavate, 

 2-4-spored ; spores white, smooth. Growing on dead leaves, twigs 

 or wood or on dead herbaceous stems, in some species springing 

 from a distinct sclerotium. 



This genus, like Clavaria, is poorly defined and several of the 

 definitive characters are of very slight or no systematic value. 

 The discrete stem is shared by a number of accepted Clavarias and 

 the same species of Clavaria may have forms with discrete stems 

 and others without. Size is a character of difficult application, 

 and growth on vegetable detritus is of questionable importance 

 and cannot be sharply defined. The result is that a number of 

 species of Clavaria are excluded from Typhula by only one char- 

 acter, as C. mucida, by the stalk not being distinctly marked off; 

 C. filipes by growth on soil; C. subfalcata by growth on soil and 

 slightly too large size of some specimens; C. luteo-ochracea by 

 growth on soil and the gradual fading of the stem into the club ; 

 C. appalachiensis by too great thickness. On the other hand, 

 Typhula phacorrhiza has been placed in Typhula although it has 

 no sharply distinct stem. Clavaria juucea is so like the last species 

 that we are following Karsten in placing them together under 

 Typhula. As we are not undertaking to treat in full other genera 

 than Clavaria in this book, we include only these two last men- 

 tioned species of Typhula. We have not seen either of them in 

 the living state. 



Typhula juncea (Fr.) Karst. Bidr. Finl. Nat. Folk 37: 181. 

 1882. 

 Clavaria juncea (Alb. & Schw.) Fr. Syst. Myc. 1 : 479. 1821. 

 Clavaria triuncialcs juncea Alb. & Schw. Consp. Fung., p. 



289. 1805. 

 Clavaria hirta. Fl. Danica, pi. 1257. 1799. 

 Clavaria juncea var. vivipara Fr. Epicr., p. 579. 1838. 

 Clavaria virgultorum Pers. Myc. Europ. 1 : 186. 1822. 



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Plants single but gregarious in large colonies, very slender and 

 threadlike, about 2-8 cm. high (8-12.5 cm., Cotton), obtuse or 



