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Dansk Botanisk Arkiv, Bd. 2, Nr. 3. 



B. CLYPEOLARIÆ 



et. FUSISPORÆ. 



6. L. felina (Pers.). 



Spores ellipsoid, 9 — 11 x 5— 5 Vi u. 



Fig. specim.: Aalykkeskov near Odense, on humous ground in 

 foliaceous wood, Aug. 1902. — Also in garden-bed, Allerup, Aug. 

 1907, and in moist copsewood near Egeskov 1914. — Rare and 

 solitary. 



Distinguished from the following species by its small cap 

 (2—3 cm) with almost black scales, and by the shorter, almost 

 ellipsoid spores. 



7. L. clypeolaria (Bull.). 



Spores almost fusiform, somewhat oblique, 13 — 18 X 4 — 5 u, (1914: 

 15—19 X 5 — S 1 /-, H» edge of gills sparingly set with inflated sack- 

 shaped, 10 — 20 u broad cells.) 



Fig. specim.: I. Hæsbjerg, foliaceous wood, Oct. 1897. II. Pe- 

 derstrup, wood of Picea, Oct. 1899. — Common, but often soli- 

 tary, in coniferous and foliaceous woods till late in the autumn. 



This species varies a good deal in colour. An extreme colour- 

 form is 



L. chjp. forma albida. — Spores 13—16 u long. Cap and stem 

 whitish. — Hæsbjerg, wood of Fagus, Sept. 1905. 



8. L. (clypeolaria var.) metulispora B. et Br. 



Spores ellipsoid-fusiform, 137 2 — 15 X 5 1 /«— 6 u. Basidia 4-spored, 

 broadly club-shaped; Cystidia small, inconspicuous, ovate-fusiform 

 or somewhat bottle-shaped. 



Fig. specim.: Hollufgaard, solitary under Æsculus, in wood of 

 Fagus, Oct. 1914. 



this plant is very intimately related to the preceeding and 

 hardly to be considered a distinct species. But it is easily di- 

 stinguished, being in fact, macroscopically more like slender spe- 

 cimens of L. Forquignoni. — The cap is very pale ochraceous, about 

 2V 2 cm broad, the central part set with minute, erect, pointed 

 squamules (formed of agglutinated hairs). The stem is almost 

 naked and turns yellow inside and outside when bruised. 



[The umbo of L. clypeolaria is generally described as being 

 glabrous, and if so the two species would be clearly distinct. 

 But when young true clypeolarias — at least in some cases — 

 have the umbo somewhat felty-pilose, thus approaching L. me- 

 tulispora. — Massek (loc. cit.) gives the correct measure for the 

 spores of L. metulispora, but attributes to L. clypeolaria very 

 minute spores (6x4 u.).] 



9. L. gracilis Quel. var. nov. laevigata. (Plate I, fig. a). 



Spores ellipsoid-fusiform, HV2 — 137a x ^Vs r 1. 



Fig. specim.: Vosemose, Sept. 1905, a number of specimens on 

 grassy roadside-bank. 



