[Vol. 9 



50 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Clavaria simihs Boudier & Patouillard, Jour, de Bot. 2: 446. 

 1888. 



Illustrations: Fl. Dan., loc. cit. For list of others under syn- 

 onyms and illustrations, see Cotton & Wakefield, loc. cit. 



Fructifications simple, or very rarely with one or two branch- 

 lets, 4-7 '/m cm. high, usually in small groups but occasionally 

 single; clubs cylindric or flattened, even or with one or more 

 furrows, blight yellow to rich orange, apex obtuse or pointed; 

 stem not distinct; flesh whitish, fibrous; basidia with 4 sterig- 

 mata; spores hyaline, white or slightly ochraceous in the mass, 

 subglobose, echinulate, 5-6 (-8) u in diameter. 



Among grass in woods, parks, lawns, etc. 



Cotton and Wakefield add further: " This is by far the most 

 frequent of the simple, yellow Clavarias, being found in short 

 grass in a variety of situations every season. It may be dis- 

 tinguished at once from all other yellow species by its subglobose, 

 spiny spores." 



I have American specimens from Massachusetts and Vermont, 

 but with the spiny spores only about 4-6 \i in diameter. 



88. C. citriceps Atkinson, Ann. Myc. 6: 56. 1908; Sacc. Syll. 

 Fung. 21 : 434 (as C. citripes). 1912. Plate 10, fig. 90. 



Type: in Cornell Univ. Herb. 



"Plants subclavate, 1,5 cm. high, 2-3 mm. stout, citron yellow, 

 white below, deeper yellow when dry. Spores oval, white, 

 smooth, with an oil drop, 4-5x3 p. — C. U. herb., No. 13461, 

 ground, Beebe Lake woods, Ithaca, N. Y., C. 0. Smith, Aug. 11, 



1902." 



Clubs growing two together in one instance, somewhat ir- 

 regular, obtuse, drying rugose and russet, with stem somewhat 

 pinkish buff; spores hyaline, even, 4^-5x3 m- 



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89. C. clara Berk. & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 10: 338. 

 1868; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 726. 1888. Plate 10, fig. 91. 



Type: in Curtis Herb, and also in Kew Herb, probably. 

 Simplex, deorsum attenuata, pallide aurantiaca, semipelluci- 

 da, gracilis, cylindrica, subacuta; hymenio cum basi continuo. 



"On the ground. About an inch high." [Cuba. C. Wright, 557]. 



Clubs simple, attenuated below, pale golden yellow, semipel- 

 lucid, slender, cylindric, somewhat acute, without a distinct stem. 



Clubs now resin -colored,\ i. e., between vinaceous-russet and 

 Prussian red; spores hyaline, even, subglobose, 4-414 X 3-3% u. 



