1922] 



BURT— THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF CLAVARIA 41 



"Plants very much branched from base, 7 cm. high, 5-6 cm. 

 broad, trunk absent. Plants uniformly gray when fresh. Base of 

 branches whitish in drying, upper portion of plant becoming pale 

 ochre or buff. Branches dichotomous, slightly clavate, numerous. 

 Axils acute or rounded. Tips usually bidentate, teeth rounded. 

 Plant somewhat tough. Basidia slender, 4-spored, 40-45x7 p. 

 Spores globose, smooth, white, pedicellate, with large oil drop, 

 4-6 u. The plant resembles Clavaria cinerea in color when fresh 

 but the spores are much smaller, the branches more slender. In 

 size and shape the spores resemble those of Clavaria fusiformis 

 but the plant is very different from that species. — C. U. herb., 

 No. 22640, on ground, among pine needles, mixed woods, hill 

 side by Fern Walk, Chapel Hill, N. C. W. C. Coker." 



Stems and branches of nearly uniform diameter, the branches 

 now usually cinnamon-buff, the stems paler and approaching 

 olive-buff and bearing small squamules of matted fibrils; biden- 

 tation of tips of branches not prominent; spores hyaline, even, 

 globose, 5-6 n in diameter. 



The dried specimen impressed me as tough rather than fleshy 

 where moistened; if not fleshy when fresh, this species should be 

 transferred to Lachnocladium, a transfer favored also by the 

 squamulose stem. 



61. C. amethystina (Battara) Bulliard, Herb, de la France, 

 pi. 496. j.2. 1790; Persoon, Comment. Clav. 46. 1797; Fries, 

 Obs. Myc. 2: 286. 1918 and 1924; Hym. Eur. 667. 1874; Ber- 

 keley, Outl. Brit. Fung. 279. pi. 18. j.2. 1860; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 

 6: 693. 1888; Cotton & Wakefield, Brit. Myc. Soc. Trans. 6: 180. 

 1919. Plate 8, fig. 62. 



Coralloides amethystina Battara, Fung. Agr. Arim. 22. pi. 1. 

 /. C. 1755 — Ramaria amethystina Holmskiold, Fungi Dan. 110. 

 pi 28. 1799. 



Illustrations: Battarra, loc. cit.; Bulliard, loc. cit.; Holmskiold, 

 loc. cit.; Berkeley, loc. cit. 



Fructifications branched, 3-4 cm. high, forming small, very 

 compact tufts, lilac or mauve, turning rapidly to yellowish on 

 drying, rather brittle; smell strong, taste tallowy, flesh uniform; 

 stem very short, scarcely distinct; branching irregular, axils not 

 flattened ; branches thick, 3-5 mm. in diameter, short, cylindric, 

 not attenuated, erect, smooth, solid, apices blunt; basidia with 



