1922] 



BURT 



CLAVARIA 27 



32. C. pusUlal Peck, Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. Bui. 1: 62 Jl 

 73; N. Y. State Mus. Rept. 25: 83. 1873; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 



708. 1888 



Plate 4, fig 



N. Y. State Mus. Herb 



"Stem slender, solid, rather tough, much and irregularly- 

 branched; branches unequal, divergent; tips acute. 



"Plant scarcely 1' high, yellowish. 



"Ground under spruce and balsam trees. North Elba. Sep- 

 tember. 



"This plant is distinguished from C. tetragona by its terete 

 stems and irregular ramification." 



The fructification is now drab, with stem somewhat olive-buff ; 

 spores colored, minutely rough, 4y 2 -6X2y 2 -3 y, glued together 



small masses 



show the type of C. vusilla closelv resemblin 



the specimen of C. flaccida from 



N. Y. State Mus. Rept 



■22. 1886; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 704. 1888. 



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



Plate 5, fig. 33 



Stem short, solid, dichotomously or subverticillately branched 



branches sliehtlv diver 



iy 



igth, the ultimate ones terminating in two or more short acute 

 ncolorous ramuli; spores ochraceous. 



"Plant 1 to 2 in. high, obconic in outline, flat topped, ap- 

 aring almost as if truncated, pallid or almost whitish in color, 

 nerally growing in imperfect circles or curved lines. 



"Under spruce and balsam trees. Adirondack mountains. 



Au fe . 



o-" 



Fructifications are now pinkish buff everywhere — the tint of 

 Coniophora polyporoidea, — often rising from a whitish mycelium 

 on the leaf mold and binding the particles of the latter together ; 

 basidia with 4 sterigmata; spores colored in the mass, nearly 

 hyaline, minutely rough, flexuous, 7 1 /2 -9x3-3 1 /2 y. 



I have collected this species near Silver Lake, Vermont. It 

 has been distributed from New Hampshire in Reliquiae Far- 

 lowianae. No. 335. 



