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Z/4 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



7. L. bicolor (Peck) Burt, n. comb. Plate 5, fig. 6. 



Clavaria bicolor Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 54: 954. 1902. 

 Not C. bicolor Massee, Kew Bui. 1901: 154. 1901.— C. Peckii 

 Sacc. & D. Sacc. in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 196. 1905.— C. vestipes 

 Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 116: 35. 1907. 



Type: in N. Y. State Mus. Herb. 



Fructifications small, 2-2 £ cm. high, gregarious; 

 stem slender, 1-2 mm. thick, straight or flexuous, 

 solid, tomentose, pale yellow, divided above into 

 two or more short, orange-colored, compressed 

 branches which are themselves once or twice 

 L. bicolor. dichotomously divided; tips acute, concolorous. 

 Spores, X870. Under pine trees. New Hampshire, Massachu- 

 setts, and New York. August and September. 

 The specimens which I have referred to this species are larger 

 in the Massachusetts collection and range from 2| to 5 cm. high; 

 towards the base the stem is hirsute-tomentose and has 

 dried tawny olive, honey-yellow in the upper portions; the 

 basidia are 45X8 /u, with two sterigmata; and the spores are 

 hyaline, even, subglobose, 9|X8-9 y.. Verification by com- 



xison with the type was overlooked 

 Specimens examined: 



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New Hampshire : Chocorua, W. 

 Massachusetts: Coolidge Point, Magnol 



Herb 



furcellatum (Fries) Leveille, as understood by 

 nr. de Bot. 3 : 26. pi. l.f.S. 1889; Leveille\ 



Sci 



Nat. Bot. III. 5: 159. 1846 (Eriocladus) ; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 

 6: 738. 1888; Not of Berk. & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot." Jour. 10: 

 330. 1868. Plate 5, fig. 7. 



Clavaria furcellata Fries, Linnaea 5: 531. 1830; Epicr. 576. 

 1838. 



Illustrations: Plumier, Filic. An. pi 168. f. L. 1705; Patouil- 

 lard, Jour, de Bot. 3: pi l.f. 3. 1889. 



Fructifications ascending, somewhat ferruginous, with 

 branches solid, repeatedly dichonomous, distant, rather tough, 

 velvety, acuminate. 





