[Vol. 9 



28 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



34. C. flavuloides Burt, n. sp. Plate 5, fig. 34. 



Type: in N. Y. State Mus. Herb, under the name Clavaria 

 sub tills. 



Fructifications up to 3 cm. high, gregarious, many times 

 dichotomously branched, becoming pinkish buff in the herbarium, 

 the branches very slender, drying compressed, curving together, 

 with rounded axils; white mycelial strands at base of stems 

 permeate the leaf humus and bind it together; spores copious, 

 slightly colored under the microscope, 6X3 u, slightly rough 

 under an immersion objective. 



Type: on coniferous leaf humus. North Elba, New York. Sept. 



10, 1910. C. H. Peck. 



This is Clavaria subtilis Pers. as understood by Peck, but C. 

 subtilis has white spores according to European authors. C. 

 gracilis Pers. is said by Fries to differ from C. subtilis in having 

 ochraceous spores, and C. flavuloides may prove eventually a 

 synonym of C. gracilis but since I can find only a vague des- 

 cription of the latter and no original illustration and no specimens 

 in exsiccati, it seems best to give to the American gathering a 

 distinct name. C. flavuloides has the general aspect of C. flavula 

 but lacks the subiculum over the ground and has smaller spores. 





35. C. fragrantissima Atkinson, Ann. Myc. 6: 57. 1908; Sacc. 

 Syll. Fung. 21: 427. 1912. Plate 5. fig. 35. 



Type: in Cornell Univ. Herb. 



"Plants fragrant, pale ochraceous buff, very much branched 

 dichotomously from a single trunk; tips 2-3, conic. Spores 4-5 1 /; 

 X2 1 /i»-3m. smooth, granular, only slightly tinged with yellow, 

 subelliptical, pointed at side of one end. — C. U. herb., No. 13743, 

 ground, Cascadilla woods, C. Thorn., Sept. 22, 1902; No. 15323, 



ground under pine trees, Beebe Lake woods, Fall Creek, July 30, 

 1903, Thorn., Ithaca, N. Y." 



The fructifications are now cream-buff, not notably dichoto- 

 mous but rather with a tendency to branch along one side of the 

 fructification; prominent mycelial strands extend from base of 

 the stem into the substratum; spores slightly colored,' even as 

 seen with usual 4-mm. objective but minutely rough when 

 viewed in glycerine mount with oil-immersion objective, 4*4-6 X 

 2V2-3 |j. The fragrant odor of the fresh specimens is no longer 

 perceptible. 



