[Vol. 9 

 22 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



"About 2 inches high, with the thickish common base; branches 

 straight, forked and apiculate at the tips, tomentose below." 



The type specimen in Curtis herbarium is now fragmentary, 

 consisting of the main trunk and base3 of branches and frag- 

 ments of some branches, with all parts colored clove-brown; 

 dried trunk strongly longitudinally furrowed, now showing none 

 of the tomentose covering at the base; spores colored, minutely 



rough, 9-10x3 1 / />-4 1 /:> M- Sections mounted on the sheet with 

 the type show the hymenial surface free from hairs, cystidia, etc. 

 The fluid used in poisoning the specimen has dissolved a pigment 

 from the fructification and stained the herbarium sheet dark 

 brown in the vicinity of the specimen. The type specimen was 

 collected at Hillsborough, North Carolina. 



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of the stem of C. sviculosvora and 



C. gran dis but these species have the 

 ored. stronelv echinulate. and larger. 



24. C. flavobrunnescens Atkinson, Ann. Myc. 7: 367J 1909; 



Sacc. Syll. Fung. 21: 427. 1912. Plate 4, fig. 22. 



Type: in Cornell Univ. Herb. 



"Plants very much branched, 5-7 cm. high, 4-6 cm. broad. 

 Trunk short or entirely absent. In latter case branches arising 

 from extreme base. Trunk when present, 0,5-1 cm. in diameter. 

 Primary branches stout, 4-8 mm. in diameter. Branches re- 

 peatedly dichotomous. Axils usually rounded or arcuate. Branches 

 sometimes anastomosing, more or less flexuous. Tips minutely 

 dentate. Color uniform yellow except extreme base which is 

 white. Plants very brittle, bruises turn brown and become water 

 soaked. Spores yellow, subelliptical, pale yellow under micro- 

 scope, minutely roughened 7-9X3 n- — C. U. herb., No. 22639, 

 ground, woods, Battle's Park, Chapel Hill, N. C." 



The original specimen has become in the herbarium tawny 



olive, more or less discolored olive-brown, now odorless, not note- 

 worthy by anastomosis of the branches, tips of branches notably 

 dentate; spores are an ochraceous powder in some places on sur- 

 face of fructification, colored under the microscope, minutely 



rough, 7-9x3Vo-4 \i. 



C. flavobrunnescens and C. leucotephra were both described 

 from collections made in North Carolina; the original specimens 

 agree in color, spore characters, and characters of the stems. 



