1919] 



BURT — THELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XI 



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Fructifications 



cm. high, pallid ferruginous to ochraceous 



ferrugin 



On rotting wood 



was 



The original description, of which the above is a translation, 

 based upon collections from Guiana by Roxburgh and 

 Brazil by Beyrich, with reference to the same species of a col- 

 lection from Bourbon Island by Bory, which differed from the 

 South American specimens by decumbent habit, etc. 



At the time of publication of L. furcellatum, Fries gave only 

 characters sufficient to distinguish this species from an earlier 

 sDecies. L. tubulosum, occurring in the same region and having 



hollow branches 



In the course of time several species of 



s 



Fig. 14. L. furcellatum. Portion of hy- 

 menium showing basidia and a hair, a; spores, 

 s. X 870. From Colombia coll. 



South American Lachnocladium with solid stems have bee 

 nized, but I have so far failed to find any study upon the 



specimens 



specimens of Clavaria furcellata Fries — if these 

 ex i s t, — which gives their microscopical characters and will decide 

 whether L. furcellatum as understood by Patouillard or some 

 other Lachnocladium with solid branches, is the true L. furcel- 



latum (Fries) Lev. 



from Santa Marta, Colom 



bia, by C. F. Baker, which he distributed under the name L 



my determination, I 



regard 



agreeing 



more closelv with the original description of L. furcellatum than 



