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60 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



96. C. contorta Holmskiold, Fungi Dan. 1: 29. pi. 12. 1790; 



Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 478. 1821; Hym. Eur. 677. 1874; Sacc. 

 Syll. Fung. 6: 723. 1888; Harper, Mycologia 10: 55. pi. 4. f. C. 

 1918; Cotton & Wakefield, Brit. Myc. Soc. Trans. 6: 194. 1919. 



Plate 10, fig. 97. 



Illustrations: Holmskiold, loc. cit.; Harper, loc. cit.; Boudier, 

 Soc. Myc. Fr. Bui. 33. pi 1. f.5; Fl. Dan. pi. 1852. j. 1. 



Clubs crumpent, simple or irregularly branched, contorted, 

 2-3 cm high, pale yellowish drab, darker when moist, fairly 

 tough; branches 4-6 mm. thick, short, blunt, wrinkled, not at- 

 tenuated, at length hollow; stem not distinct; smell and taste 

 none; latex tubes present; basidia with 4 sterigmata; spores 

 hyaline, even, 14-18x6-9 u —17-23X8-10 u according to Cotton 



and Wakefield for British specimens. 



On branches of dead alder, etc. New England, South Carolina, 

 and Michigan. Rare. 



It has been claimed that C. contorta is a contorted form of C. 

 flstulosa. Those who believe otherwise assert its distinctive 

 characters are its erumpent, dwarf, fasciculate habit, paler, more 

 grayish color, entirely glabrous club covered everywhere with the 



hymenium, larger spores, and occurrence on dead branches still 

 remaining on the tree. I have seen no specimen of C. contorta. 



97. C. juncea Fries, Obs. Myc. 2: 291. 1818 and 1824; Syst. 

 Myc. 1: 479. 1821; Hym. Eur. 677. 1874; Peck, N. Y. State 

 Mus. Rept. 22: 87. 1869; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 724. 1888; Harper, 

 Mycologia 10: 56. pi. 5. 1918; Cotton & Wakefield, Brit. Myc. 

 Soc. Trans. 6: 195. 1918. Plate 10, fig. 98. 



Illustrations: Boudier, Icones, pi. 176; Harper, loc. cit. 



Clubs simple, in groups of 2 or 3, filiform, weak, 5-8 cm. high, 

 Yj-IYj mm. thick, dirty yellow, then tinged rusty or brownish 

 drab, hollow, hairy at the base; smell none, taste acrid; basidia 

 with 4 sterigmata; spores hyaline, even, 8-12x4-5 u. 



On fallen 

 Abundant 1 



New England to Mich 



C. juncea may be readily recognized by its long filiform clubs 



acrid taste, growing on leaves in woods in periods of prolonged 

 ;t weather. 



asperulospora Atkinson, Ann. Mvc. 6: 55. 1908: Sacc 



Syll. Fung. 21: 433. 1912. 

 Tvne: in Cornell Univ. Herb 



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