[Vol. 9 

 10 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



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



"Stems united at the base, forming tufts 3-5 inches tall and 

 nearly as broad, fragile, solid, glabrous, white or whitish, divided 

 above into numerous erect, crowded, solid branches which are 

 whitish or pale buff, ultimate branchlets terminating in two or 

 more blunt points which are pale pink, sometimes with a yel- 

 lowish tinge; flesh white, taste mild; spores dingy yellow in a 

 thin stratum, subochraceous in a thick one, oblong, .0004-0005 

 of an inch long, .00016-.0002 broad. 



'The conjoined clavaria is a large tufted and attractive species 

 closely related to Clavaria jlava on one hand and to C. 

 botrytaides on the other. From the first it may be distinguished 

 by the pinkish tips of the branchlets, from the second by their 

 paler color and greater permanence and from both by the larger 

 spores. It is similar to both in its fragile tender flesh and 



pleasant flavor. It grows among fallen leaves in woods. It was 

 found at Bolton Landing, Warren Co. which yet remains its only 

 known locality." 



The fructifications comprising the type are now Isabella-col- 

 ored except at tips of branches, which are light ochraceous- 

 sahnon ; the branches have dried longitudinally rugose and chan- 

 nelled; spores slightly colored under the microscope, nearly 

 hyaline, minutely rough, 9-11X3V2-4 u. 



The tips of the branches are a little paler in their dried con- 

 dition now than those of the type of C. botrytoidcs, but the two 

 type specimens are not otherwise distinguishable in their present 

 dried condition; perhaps field studies may show good, distinctive 

 characters. 



Specimens examined: 

 New York: Bolton Landing, C. H. Peck, type, in N. Y. State 



Mus. Herb. 



4. C. holorubella At! 



Fung. 21: 425 1912. 



908 ; Sacc. Syll. 

 Plate 2, fig. 6. 



m 



"D 



Cornell Univ. Herb. 



3 cm. high, spread of branching 12 cm 



3 cm. in diameter, rooting, trunk with several stout branches 

 which branch repeatedly, upper axils somewhat rounded. En- 

 tire plant reddish to madder brown, trunk deeper red than the 

 branches; flesh reddish. Where spores are being developed sur- 

 face covered with a whitish bloom. Basidia 4-spored. Spores 



