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d drab and the stem paler — somewhat olive-gray 

 , even, flexuous, l&A-l 5 XSV^-^ M- 



51. C. asterella Atkinson, Ann. Myc. 6: 55. 1908; Sacc, Syll. 



Plate 7, fig. 52. 



Fung. 21: 431. 1912. 



Type: in Cornell Univ. Herb. 



"Plants ochraceous, 5-7 cm. high. Trunk short, primary 

 branches open, bases divaricate, axils rounded, upper branches 

 fastigiate. Plants soft, flexible. Spores small, white, oboval, 

 inequilateral in side view, with an oil drop, 4-5X2,5-3 \i, with 

 a few scattered short spines. — C. U. herb., No. 11914, on leaf 

 mold, lower slope Mt. Mitchell, Black Mts. Yancey Co., N. C. 

 G. F. Atkinson, Sept. 1901." 



Fructification now pinkish buff; spores hyaline, showing a 

 few slender spines under the immersion objective. 



52. C. divaricata Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 2:11. 1887; N. 

 Y. State Mus. Rept. 54: 171. 1901; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 9: 249. 



Plate 7, fig. 53. 



1891. 



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



"Stem short, small, whitish, much branched; branches widely 

 spreading, terete, even or slightly longitudinally wrinkled, more 

 or less curved, pale-ochraceous, the ultimate ones tapering out- 

 ward and terminating in one or more acute points; spores .0004 

 to .0005 in. long, .0002 to .00025 broad. 



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Tufts 2 to 4 in. high, and nearly as broad. 

 Woods. Sandlake. August. 



"This is a rare species, and is remarkable for and easily 

 distinguished by its divaricate branches which give to the plant 

 a very spreading, straggling aspect." 



The fructifications grew on the ground and are now light 

 ochraceous buff in all parts; branches spongy within, somewhat 

 flattened in drying; spores hyaline, distinctly rough, 11-13X 

 4% p. I noted the spores as rugulose when preparation was first 

 made in aqueous mount and studied with dry objective, but 

 upon reexamination of the preparation, now in glycerine mount, 

 the spores appear distinctly rough, not rugulose, under immersion 

 objective. 



53. C. lentofragilis Atkinson, Ann. Myc. 6 : 57. 1908 ; Sacc. 

 Syll. Fung. 21 : 425. 1912. Plate 7, fig. 54. 



Type: in Cornell Univ. Herb. 



