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The single club preserved as the type is now avellaneous; 

 basidia simple, with 4 sterigmata; spores hyaline, rough, thin- 

 walled, flattened on one side, 4Vl>X3m- 



69- C. pilosa Burt, n. sp. Plate 8, fig. 70. 



Type: in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb. 



Fructifications simple, growing singly or 2-3 in a cluster, when 

 dry 1-2 cm. long, 2 mm. thick, buffy brown to drab, compressed, 

 thickened in the middle, apices obtuse; cylindric, hair-like, hy- 

 aline cystidia not incrusted, 6 u in diameter, protrude in the 

 hymenium up to 30 n beyond the basidia; spores hyaline under 

 the microscope, oven, subglobose, 0-8x6-7 p. 



On humus. Martin Pino, Porto Rico. Feb. 22, 1914. Colls., 

 /. R. Johnston & J. A. Stevenson, 1453, type (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 

 Herb., 14540). 



The specimen was not accompanied by notes of the characters 

 when fresh. When moistened it seems to me too fleshy for the 

 genus Lachnocladium. The species is noteworthy by the presence 

 of hair-like cystidia in the hymenium. 





70. C. pallescem Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 131: 34. 1909; 

 139: 47. 1910; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 21: 434. 1912. 



Plate 8, fig. 71. 

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



"Clubs simple, loosely cespitose or gregarious, 2.5-^ cm. tall, 

 clavate, soft, fragile, obtuse, pale buff fading to whitish, some- 

 times minutely rugulose, stuffed or hollow, pale yellow within; 

 stem short, glabrous, 2-4 mm. long, pale yellow ; spores oblong or 

 elliptic, white, 9-12x6-8 u. 



"Dry gravelly soil near Kabnia angustifolia L. South Acton, 

 Mass. October. S. Davis and G. E. Morris. 



"This species is allied to Clavaria ligula Fr. from which it 

 differs in its smaller size, in its color becoming whitish or paler 

 with age or in drying, but being lemon-yellow and more persistent 

 within, in its glabrous lemon-yellow stem and in its broader 



spores. 



but verv distinct 



Fructifications are now chamois-colored, flattened, rugose, 

 stuffed or hollow, and consist of a tuft of 14 clubs arising from a 

 whitish mycelium on the ground; spores hyaline, even, 10-10y 2 

 X4V2 M, copious — none more than 4i/» \x thick. 



I found several tufts of this species growing among 



