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38 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



'Plants 15 cm. high, tufts 12 cm. broad; trunks 2-4 cm. long 

 2-3 cm. thick, dividing into several short branches which are 

 repeatedly dichotomously branched, axils slightly rounded; tips 

 short, conic. Trunk gray, branches white, tips soft and fragile. 

 Spores white, oboval to subglobose, asperulate, 4-6 p in diameter. 

 Taste and odor not marked. — C. U. herb., No. 20242, on very 

 rotten wood in sphagnum swamp, Smithton, L. Isl., N. Y." 



The branched portion of the fructification is now somewhat 



warm sepia and the main trunk and main branches are paler, 



more ochraceous; spores hyaline, minutely aculeate, subglobose, 

 6X5 u. 



This is a species very distinct from others known to me and 

 distinguished by its occurrence on wood, large size, and hyaline, 

 subglobose, aculeate spores. 



54. C. corniculata Schaeffer, Icones Fung, pi 173. 1763; 

 Persoon, Syn. Fung. 589. 1801; Myc. Eur. 1: 170. 1822; Fries, 

 Syst. Myc. 1: 471. 1821; Cotton & Wakefield, Brit. Myc. Soc. 

 Trans. 6: 181. 1910. Plate 7, fig. 55. 



C. muscoides Linn. Spec. Plant. 1183. 1753; Fries, Epicr. 

 571. 1S3X; Hym. Uur. 667. 1874; Berkeley, Outl. Brit. Fung. 

 279. 1800; Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Rept. 47: 151. 1894. 



Illustrations: Schacffer, loc. cit.; Holmskiold, Fungi Dan. pi 

 21; Patouillard, Tab. Anal. Fung, f.564; Fl. Dan. pi. 775. f.S. 



Fructification two or three times branched, 2-4 cm. high, 

 apricot-yellow, a little tough, the stem slender; odor and taste 

 not noteworthy; basidia with 4 sterigmata; spores white in spore 

 collection, even, globose, 5-6 m in diameter. 



On ground in woods. August to October. Probably frequent. 

 Known to me from Vermont to Michigan and Missouri. 



C. corniculata may be recognized by its slender stem and 

 branches, apricot-yellow color, and white, even, globose spores. 

 In England it is reported as occurring among grass, especially 

 in fields, but I have found it only in moist, mixed woods. 



55. C. Peckii Sacc. Syll. Fung. 9: 249. 1901. Plate 7, fig. 56. 



Clavaria si?nilis Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Rept. 43: 24. 1890, 

 but not of Boud. & Pat. Jour, de Bot. 2: 341, 446. pi. 8.J.I. 1888. 

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

 "Caespitose, subtenacious, slender, three to four times di- 



