1922] 



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CLAVARIA 15 



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condensata, but from the latter it differs in color and from 

 the former in its more compact mode of growth, compressed 

 branches, more narrow spores, and in having the tips of the 

 branches differing in color from the branches themselves. The 

 branches appear glabrous to the naked eye, but under a lens 

 they have a minutely velvety appearance. This indicates a re- 

 lationship to the genus Lachno cladium , but it is not clearly 

 shown by the dried specimens that the texture is coriaceous." 



The type fructification is now everywhere chamois colored; 

 it has the cluster of main stems and all branches except the small 

 terminal branchlets anastomosing and grown together at points 

 of contact from the base upward in a highly characteristic man- 

 ner; spores ochraceous where occurring as dust in axils of the 

 branches, somewhat colored under the microscope, minutely 

 rough, 9X4 m- The fructification grew from the ground but 

 partially inclosed a piece of wood which was in its way, and shows 

 transversely across the lower part of the fructification in the 

 illustration. 



fumigata Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Rept. 31: 38. 1879; 



Sacc 



g. 6: 711. 1888. 

 Y. State Mus. Herb 



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"Stem short, thick,, branching from near the base, whitish; 

 branches numerous, forming a dense mass, smoky-ochraceous, 

 sometimes tinged with lilac; tips obtuse; spores .0003'-.0005' 

 long. 



uri 



Ground in woods. Ticonderoga. Aug. 

 "The tufts are 4'-5' high and remarkable for their smoky 



or dingy color." 



The type fructifications are now drab to hair-brown; spores 

 copious, colored, distinctly rough, 9-10x4-4y 2 \i. C. fumigata 

 is a species well marked by its form, size, color, and spores. 



12. C. grandis Peck, Torr. Bot. Club Bui. 29: 73. 1902; Sacc. 

 Syll. Fung. 17: 195. 1905. Plate 3, fig. 13. 



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



"Stem stout, distinct, radicating, divided above into numerous 

 long, erect or slightly diverging branches which are repeatedly 

 branched, solid but very fragile, glabrous, reddish-brown with 

 white tips at first, becoming somewhat pulverulent and ferru- 

 ginous brown with concolorous tips when old, somewhat fragrant; 



