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BURT — THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF CLAVARIA 55 



86. C. vemalis Schweinitz, Naturforsch. Ges. Leipzig Schrift. 



1: 112. 1822. 



Plate 9, fig. 88. 



C. clavata Peck, Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. Bui. 1: 62. 1873; N. Y. 



u 



ff 



State Mus. Kept. 25: 83. pil. j.9. 1873; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 

 726. 1888. 



C. simplicissima gregaria apice incrassata subrugosa flava, 

 stipite subpellucido. 



"Frequens tempore vernali in terra nuda, gregaria sed sparsa 

 nee conferta, silvulas saepe viginti pedes longas efficit iuxta 

 vias in ericetis, unciae quadrantem alta. ,; 



C. clavata Peck, loc. cit. 



"Simple, straight, c lav ate, obtuse, smooth, not hollow, yellow 

 when fresh, rugose-wrinkled and orange-colored when dry, 4"-6 

 high. 



"Damp shaded banks by road-sides. Sandlake. June. The 

 surface of the ground where it grows is covered by a green con- 

 fervoid stratum/' 



The type fructifications of the above species in both Herb. 

 Schweinitz and N. Y. State Mus. Herb, have been lost, perhaps 

 by the crumbling away of some of the sandy earth by which 

 attached to the mounting sheet. The earthy remains of both 

 specimens show a greenish algal coating and short mosses like 

 that on a collection by Peck from N. Elba, N. Y. and a gathering 

 in quantity at Sharon, Mass., in May, determined by Dr. Farlow 

 as C. vernalis,—C. clavata. As Peck endorsed on his type sheet 

 C. clavata as a synonym of C. vemalis — an opinion in which I 

 concur — I am so treating this species. 



The spores of the N. Elba specimen are hyaline, even, flexuous, 

 7%-9 X 2^-3^ jj ; those of the Sharon specimen white in the 

 mass, even, 7-7 1 / /»x2 , /j-3 u. The clubs of the Sharon specimen 



were pinkish cinnamon of Pidgway above, paler below, and white 

 at the base when fresh, 10 mm. long, V/ { mm. in diameter in the 

 broadest part, and have dried orange-cinnamon. 



Specimens of C. vemalis from New Jersey were distributed by 

 Ellis in his North American Fungi, 613, and from Massachusetts 

 in Reliquiae Farlowianae, 311. 



87. C. inaequalis Midler, Fl. Dan. pi 886. j.l. 1778; Fries, 

 Syst. Myc. 1: 481. 1821 ; Hym. Eur. 674. 1874; Peck, N. Y. 

 State Mus. Bui. 22: 87. 1869; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 719. 1888; 

 Cotton & Wakefield, Brit. Myc. Soc. Trans. 6: 189. 1919. 



Plate 9, fig. 89. 



