1922] 



BURT 



C LAV ARIA 35 



Eur. 1: 165. 1822; Fries, S> 



Hyra 



Eur. 669. 1874; Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Rept. 33: 22. 1880; 

 Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 698. 18S8. Plate 6, fig. 47. 



Illustrations: Persoon, loc. cit.; Fl. Dan. pl.1304, f-1- 

 Fructifications forming tufts up to 3-10 cm. high, pallid, then 

 tan color and somewhat rufescent; trunk slender, glabrous, 

 branched, the branches and branchlets solid, all cup-shaped at 

 the apex and with the little cups radiate-branched at the margin 

 in a proliferous manner, the terminal ones dentate ; spores white 

 in the mass, even, 3-3 y L > X 2-2 y 2 jj . 



On rotten wood. New Hampshire to Missouri. July to Oc- 

 tober. Rather common on rotten Salix near St. Louis. 



Although Cotton and Wakefield, loc, cit., p. 198, regard C. 



pyxidata as an indeterminable species, "possibly an abnormal 



form of C. stricta," nevertheless it is sharply characterized among 



the European species, the pyxidate cups suggesting those of a 



lichen, (Cladonia) as emphasized by Persoon in the original 



description but not faithfully shown by the artist in Persoon's 



accompanying illustration. Good European specimens have been 



distributed in Krieger, Fungi Sax., 1156 and 1156b, with which 



our American collections agree well. An American gathering 



from New Hampshire has been distributed in Reliquiae Farlow- 

 ianae, 309. 



48. C. Petersii Berk. & Curtis, Ravenel, Fungi Car. 5 : 33. 

 1860; Grevillea 2: 7. 1873; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 716. 1888. 



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Type: in Ravenel, Fungi Car. 5: 33. 



"E communi basil ramosa; ramis strictis subfastigiatis apice 

 apiculato divisis rufis. No. 4576 bis. Alabama, Peters. On 

 dead wood. 



"About 2 inches high, branched from the very base; branches 

 straight, somewhat fastigiate, rufous, tips apiculate." 



The fructifications are now pinkish cinnamon, and branches 

 probably hollow, but this is difficult to determine positively from 

 dried pressed specimens. The branches and branchlets are 

 not cup-shaped at the apex. Long, slender, hyaline, conducting 

 organs are present in crushed preparations ; spores hyaline, even, 

 flattened on one side, 4x2-2^2 M- 



49. C. coronata Schweinitz, Am. Phil. Soc. Trans. N. S. 4 : 

 182. 1832; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 712. 1888; Morgan, Cincinnati 



