1919] 



BURT — THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XI 271 



Fructifications 2 £-4 cm. high, 1-1 £ cm. broad; main stem 2-3 

 mm. in diameter. 



On rotting leaves in groves. Canada to New Jersey and 

 westward to Missouri. 



This species forms an orbicular, villose or mycelial patch on 



the surface of leaves — very often beech leaves — and from these 

 patches arise one or two stems, which are tomentose below. 

 In the field notes of this species I have the record, "bitter to 

 taste," but the dried specimens are not bitter now. 



Specimens examined: 

 Exsiccati: Ell. & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 2023, type distribution of 



Clavaria fragrans; Ell. & Ev., Fungi Col., 1022. 

 Canada: Ontario, London, J. Dearness, in Ell. & Ev., Fungi Col., 



1022. 

 Vermont: Newfane, C. D. Howe; Sudbury, E. A. Burt. 

 New York: Snyders, C. H. Peck (in N. Y. State Mus. Herb. 



and in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 56113). 

 New Jersey: Newfield, J. B. Ellis, in Ell. & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 



2023. 

 Pennsylvania: E. Michener, 4?9, type (in Curtis Herb., 3534); 



Bethlehem, Schweinitz, the Clavaria crispula and C. bys- 



siseda of Schweinitz, Syn. N. Am. Fungi, 1024 and 1034 



respectively (in Herb. Schweinitz). 

 Ohio: C. G. Lloyd, 3817 (in Lloyd Herb., Burt Herb., Farlow 



Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 44653); Oxford, L. O. 



Overholts, 1487 (in Overholts Herb.). 

 Missouri: Wickes,#. A. Burt (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 43813.) 



4. L. semivestitum Berk. & Curtis, Grevillea 1: 161. 1873; 

 Morgan, Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. Jour. 10: 192. 1888; Sacc. 

 Syll. Fung. 6: 739. 1888. Plate 5, fig. 4. 



Type: in Kew Herb, and Curtis Herb. 



Fructifications coriaceous, erect, repeatedly furcate-branched, 

 the branches terete, rather straight, rising rather close together, 

 everywhere clothed with whitish down except on the final 

 branchlets, drying between light brownish olive and buffy 

 brown; spores of the type hyaline, even, 12-15X5-6 /*. 



Fructifications 3-4 cm. high, about 1 cm. in diameter across 

 branches. 



