1922] 



BURT — THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF CLAVARIA 17 



caeruleis, apicibus breviter bificlis obtusis subfastigiatis. 



"Among leaves in thick woods. June. Hab. Bonin Isles. 

 About 3 inches high." 



The specimen from Cuba, upon which the original description 

 was based, is now brownish olive ; spores coarsely echinulate, in- 

 tensely colored, the spore body 10-13X6-8 p. 



14. C. spiculospora Atkinson, Ann, Myc. 7: 308. 1909; Sacc. 

 Syll. Fung. 21: 426. 1912, as C. spiculosperma. Plate 2, fig. 11. 



Type: an authentic specimen which was compared with the 

 type is in Burt Herb. The type could not be found in Cornell 

 Univ. Herb, although a photograph of it is present there. 



"Plant about 6 cm. high, stem 5 cm. long, 0,8-1 cm. in diam- 

 eter. Several short branches clustered at the top. Branches 

 subdichotomous to subtrichotomous. Terminal branchlets coarse- 

 ly dentate to subpyxidate, some of them resembling molars. Stem 

 grayish brown, whitish below, the whitish part stained with pink 

 or pale purple. Branches grayish brown, tips abruptly! white. 

 Spores reddish brown, a brick color, long, obovate and curved at 

 the smaller end, covered with sharply pointed spicules, spicules 

 being nearly 2 \x long. Spores 11-13X6,5-7,5 \i. — C. U. herb., 

 No. 22638, ground, mixed woods, Chapel Hill, N. C, W. C. Coker, 

 Oct. 08. 



The authentic specimen in Burt Herb, was communicated to 

 me by Professor Atkinson in 1911 together with his type for 

 study and w r ith inquiry whether known to me already as a 

 Thelephora. This specimen seemed to me to be the same species 

 as his type, but larger, more branched above; it is now buckthorn- 

 brown ; basidia 2-spored ; spores intensely colored, strongly 



echinulate, with body 11-15x6-8 m- 



When collected again, the characters as to color of the fresh 



specimens should be compared with those recorded for C. cyano- 

 cephala. 



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15. C. longicaulis Peck, Torr. Bot. Club Bui. 25: 371. 1898; 



Sacc. Syll. Fung. 16: 206. 1902. Plate 2, fig. 8. 



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

 Stem slender, solid, sparingly and irregularly branched above, 

 the branches rather long, simple or sparingly branched, the tips 

 blunt, the whole plant dark brown when fresh, externally dark 

 ochraceous when dry, longitudinally and somewhat irregularly 



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