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spores ferruginous, broadly elliptic or subglobose, distinctly 



verrucosa 10-12 p long, 6-8 n broad. 



"Plant 12-20 cm. high, nearly as broad above; stem 2-2.5 cm. 

 thick. 



"Thin woods under Smilax bushes. Maryland. September, 



F. J. Braendle. 



" According to Mr. Braendle this larirc Clavaria is edible when 



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prepared as pickles and put up in spiced vinegar/' 



Fructification growing on the ground, radicated, now Dresden- 

 brown to snuff-brown, discolored darker in a few places; basidia 

 2-spored; spores intensely colored, strongly echinulate, flattened 

 on one side, the body of the spore 10-12X6-7 M- In the N. Y. 

 State Mus. Herbarium there are more recent collects is referred 

 by Peck to C. grandis which have fructifications of the same 

 form but much smaller and with similar, characteristic) spores. 

 These additional specimens were collected in Massachusetts by 

 S. Davis, and in Vaughn, New York, by S. H. Burnham. 



C. grandis belongs in the group of which the other American 



species are C. cyanocephala, C. spiculospora, i id C. cervicornis. 

 The species of this group are alike in their intensely colored and 

 str< ngly echinulate, beaked spores, but differ from one another 

 in dimensions of spores and fructifications and in form and color 

 of the latter. According to recent studies, which are cited in con- 

 nection with C. cyanocephala Berk. & Curtis, C. aeruginosa 

 Pat., ('. Zippelii Lev., and Thelephora acanthacea Lev. of the 

 East Indies are species of ;he same group and ail need com- 

 parison with one another. 



13. C. cyanocephala Berk. <fe Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 



10:338. 1868; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 711. 1888. Plate 3, fig. 14. 

 Lachnocladium cyanocephala (Berk. & Curtis) Patouillard, 

 Jour, de Bot. 3: 35. 1889. — An Clavaria aeruginosa Patouillard, 

 Soc. Myc. Fr. Bui. 14: 189. 1898? See von Hohnel & 

 Litschauer, K. Akad. Wiss. Wien • Sitzungsber. 119 1 : 394. 1910. 

 —An ( '. Zippelii Leveille, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. III. 2 : 215. 1844? 



See von Hohnel & Litschauer, loc. cit. — An Thelephora 



acanthacea Leveille, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. III. 5: 147. 1846? 

 See von Hohnel & litschauer, K. Akad. Wiss. Wien Sitzungsber. 



122: 27S. 1913. 



Type: from Cuba, C. Wright, 261, in Curtis Herb. 



"Stipite subdiviso, ramis ramulisque furcatis sursum intense 



