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BURT — THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF CLAVARIA 53 



81. Cfilipes Berk. & Ravenel, Grevillea 2: 17. 1873; Sacc 



Syll. Fung. 6: 726. 1888. 



fig 



Type: in Kew Herb., no specimen to be found in Curtis Herb. 



"Pallide rufa; stipite filiformi distincto fistuloso, clavula longo 

 cylindrica curvata. On the ground. Car. Inf. Rav. No. 1488. 



"Springing from a white mycelium; pale rufous; stem about an 

 inch high, slender, club the same length." 



Miss Wakefield has very kindly studied the type of C. filipes 

 in Kew Herb, and made the following notes and also the tracing 

 of the specimens reproduced in the accompanying illustration. 



"Now brown in color and not in very good condition. The 



club is distinct from 



more horny. At 



the base of the stalk there is a paler (cream to tan-colored) 

 mycelium, which rather suggests that the clubs have been at- 



tached to leaves or small 



those 



have figured, 9-11x5-7 u, seem most likely to belong, though I 

 saw none attached and there were various other spores present. 

 The basidia made out have 4 sterigmata and are cylindric, 10- 

 12 u in diameter." 



82. C. spathulata Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Rept. 27: 100. 

 pi. 2. /. 20-21. 1875; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 725. 1888. 



Plate 9, fig. 84. 

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



"Simple, pale yellow; club compressed, spatulate, tapering 

 into the slender slightly furfuraceous stem. 



"Plant scarcely more than two lines high. 



"Dead branches of hickory trees, Carya alba. Greenbush. Oct. 



"The color is like that of Spathularia flavida." 



The clubs emerge from crevices in the bark — sometimes 2 or 

 3 in a cluster — and are now ivory-yellow; tissue softens when 

 moistened and was probably fleshy ; basidia simple ; spores which 

 probably belong to this species are hyaline, even, 9-10X4-4V2 M 

 — other spores present are' hyaline, even, 4x3 m — neither kind 

 seen attached to basidia. 



83. C. argillacea Persoon, Comment. Clav. 74. 1797; Fries 

 Syst. Myc. 1: 482. 1821; Hym. Eur. 675. 1874; Peck, N. Y 

 State Mus. Rept. 24: 82. 1872; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 719. 1888: 

 Cotton & Wakefield, Brit. Myc. Soc. Trans. 6: 191. 1919. 



Plate 9, fig. 85 



