1922] 



BURT 



CLAVARIA 19 



branched ramuJi, ultimate branches densely crowded, terminating 

 in a few short, blunt teeth ; flesh firm, dry, whitish, taste tardily 

 acrid, then bitter ; spores oblong, pale ochraceous, .0005 to .0006 



in. long, .0002 broad. 



Ground in thin woods. Menands. August. 



"The species has the structure of C. botrytis and C. jlava, but 

 it is readily distinguished from these by its uniform whitish color, 

 the tips of the branches being concolorous." 



The four fructifications of the type are between avellaneous 

 and tawny olive with the tips somewhat resinous colored ; fructi- 

 fications probably contracted greatly in drying for they are now 

 longitudinally rugose and channelled; spores slightly colored, 

 even, flexuous, 12-15x4-5 u. 



18. C. secunda Berk. & Curtis, Grevillea 2: 7. 1873; Sacc. 

 Syll. Fung. 6: 702. 1888. Plate' 1, fig. 4. 



Type: in Curtis Herb, and in Kew Herb, probably. 



"Caudice crassiusculo cito diviso; ramis curvatis secundis; 

 apicibus apiculatis. No. 534. Car. Sup. No. 991. Santee River. 



"Pale yellow; stem moderately thick, soon divided, branches 

 curved, all leaning one way, tips shortly divided, apiculate; 

 spores yellow. C. spinulosa, Schwein. Herb." 



As shown in the photograph, the stem is very short and soon 

 divided into the branches; the fructification is now everywhere 

 snuff-brown but this may be due in some degree to the specimen 

 having been treated at some time with a fluid, probably for 

 poisoning, which dissolved matter so that the paper on which the 

 specimen is mounted is stained about the fructification; spores 

 ochraceous where occurring as powder in axils of the branches, 

 pale colored under the microscope, barely rough but not showing 

 spines, 10-13 X3y 2 -4y 2 M . 



19. C. crassipes Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 67: 27. 1903; 

 Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 195. 1905. Plate 7, fig. 51. 



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



"Stem thick, firm, solid or sometimes with a cavity at the base, 

 glabrous white or whitish, repeatedly branched above, the 

 branches very numerous, crowded, solid, terminating in obtuse or 

 obtusely dentate tips, whitish or sligthly yellowish ; spores oblong, 

 uninucleate, .0006-.0007 of an inch long, .00025-.0003 broad, 

 with an oblique apiculus at the base. 



