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BURT — THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF CLAVARIA 45 



corded ; spores hyaline, even, globose, apiculate, 5-6 u in diam- 

 eter, copious. 



The specimen in Herb. Schweinitz is now honey-yellow, with 



2 or 3 clubs discolored Isabella-color; examination and manip- 

 ulation when moistened of two clubs at place of fracture where 

 the ends are gone, shows no tendency to become cylindric and 

 favors the view that the inner surfaces of contact of the wall 

 were grown together when fresh by a medullary portion and were 

 not hollow. This species may prove separable from C. fusiformis 

 by absence of hollow clubs and bitter taste. 



67. C. platyclada Peck, Torr. Bot. Club Bui. 23: 419. 1896; 

 N. Y. State Mus. Rept. 50: 114. 1897; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 14: 237. 

 1899. Plate 8, fig. 68. 



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



"Clubs caespitose, more or less connate at the base, simple or 

 forked, rarely with one or two irregular branches, solid, com- 

 pressed, tapering below into a whitish base, canary yellow, white 

 within, the tips flattened, obtuse, becoming brownish with age; 

 spores globose, .0002 to .00024 in. broad. Tufts 3 to 4 in. high ; 

 clubs 2 to 4 lines wide, scarcely more than 1 line thick. 



"Woods. Maine. September. Harriet C. Davis. 



"The species is closely allied to Clavaria fusiformis, from which 

 it is separated by its solid, obtuse, compressed and often forked 

 or branched clubs tapering below into a whitish base." 



Clubs now yellow ocher, compressed, solid; spores hyaline, 

 even, globose, 5-6 m in diameter, minutely apiculate. Since the 

 odor and taste of the clubs when fresh were not recorded, notes 

 on these points should be made for New England collections 

 which seem referable here. C. platyclada does not seem distinct 

 from C. compressa. 



68- C. Macouni Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Rept. 47: 150. 1894; 

 Sacc. Syll. Fung. 11: 137. 1895. Plate 8, fig. 69. 



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



"Clubs single or clustered, 6 to 10 lines high, obtuse or sub- 

 acute, dingy greenish-yellow or pale cinereous; spores minute, 

 elliptical, .0002 in. long, .00012 broad. 



"Among mosses under cedar trees. Canada. September. 

 Macoun. 



"The species belongs to the section Syncoryne." 



