1922] 



BURT 



CLAVARIA 21 



On the ground in coniferous woods. 



The above is based on the description by Cotton and Wake- 

 field, who add further: "Distinguished from all other British 

 species by turning green when bruised." In working with Ameri- 

 can gatherings the bitter taste of European specimens should be 

 kept in mind and noted if detected ; the spores are glued together 

 in small masses in the specimens from Germany in the exsiccati 

 cited below, and the trunk is short and soon branched in these 

 specimens and in the European illustrations of the species. C. 

 abietina has been reported from Ohio by Morgan and by Hard. 



Specimens examined: 

 Exsiccati: Klotzsch, Fungi Germ., 43; Lindhart, Fungi Hung., 



51; Rabenhorst, Herb. Myc, 314; de Thumen, Myc. Univ., 



410. 



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22. C. flavula Atkinson, Ann. Myc. 6: 56. 1908; Sacc. Syll. 

 Fung. 21: 428. 1912. Plate 4, fig. 20. 



Type: in Cornell Univ. Herb. 



"Plants buff yellow arising from a tough and thick subiculum 

 which produces many stems which branch many times dichoto- 

 mously, are flexuous and end in minute, pointed tips. The whole 

 plant is tough. Spores pale yellow, oblong, smooth or some 

 very slightly roughened, 9-12x3-3,5 \\— C. U. herb., No. 14113, 

 on leaves (pine and oak) Fall Creek bank below Chemical build- 

 ing, C. U. Campus, Ithaca, N. Y., C. Thorn., Oct. 22, 1902." 



The fructifications are soft and tender when moistened and 

 of rather dry composition, now everywhere pinkish buff to warm 

 buff; the subiculum upon which the many fructifications stand 

 is a mycelium composed of interwoven hyphae which covers, and 

 whose strands are incorporated in, a mass of pine needles ; spores 

 slightly colored, minutely rough, about 10x4 p. 



This species is noteworthy by the grouping of the fructifica- 

 tions on a subiculum, dichotomous branching of the slender fruc- 

 tifications, buff color, and rough spores. 



23. C. leucotephra Berk. & Curtis, Grevillea 2 : 7. 1873 ; Sacc. 

 Syll. Fung. 6: 712. 1888. Plate 4, fig. 21. 



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



"Caudice communi crassiusculo, ramis strictis apicibus furcatis 

 acutis brunneis basi albo-tomentosis. No. 6362. Car. Amongst 

 fallen leaves. 





