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BURT — THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF CLAVARIA 61 



"Plants clustered, wood brown, 4-7 cm. high, 2-3 mm. stout, 

 cylindrical, blunt, tapering below. Basidia abruptly clavate, 

 30X 10-12 [i, 4-spored. Spores globose, white, echinulate, pe- 

 dicellate, 6-7 M . — C. U. herb., No. 13182, Fall Creek woods, 

 Ithaca, N. Y., Whetzel, Aug. 3, 1902." 



Clubs growing on the ground, now fuscous-black; spores 

 hyaline, becoming echinulate, 6-7 u in diameter, conious. 



SPECIES IMPERFECTLY KNOWN 



C (Ramaria) Berkeley! Montagne, Syll. Crypt. 180. 1856; 

 Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 715. 1888. 



"Fragilis, e pallido lutescens; caule ascendente tenui ramosis- 

 simo, ramis teretibus repetito-trichotomis fastigiatis, ramulis 

 seu divisionibus terminalibus capitato-fasciculatis purpureis 

 acutisque. Caespitem efformat compactum. 



"Hab. Ad truncos in locis humidis dejectis. Columbus 

 [Ohio] : Sullivant, Icon. n° 51. 



"Desc. Caulis in lip;no decumbens, tenuis, teres vel compressus, 

 mox adscendens, luteo-pallescens, 6-8 centim. longus, fastigiato- 

 ramosissimus. Rami repetito-subtrichotomi, quandoque sub- 

 fasciculati, axillis rotundatis, crassitudine pennam corvinam 

 aequantes, sensim ascendendo attenuati.- Ramuli ultimi fasci- 

 culato-capitati vel digitati, divaricati, apicibus acutis rubris. 



Sporae Exsiccatione tota planta nigrescit." 



C. bicolor Rafinesque, Med. Repos. II. 5: 363. 1808; Desvaux, 

 Jour, de Bot. 1 : 233. 1808. 



"Aggregee, cylindrique, alongee, bleue; sommet obtus, d ? une 



couleur rose. 

 "En Virginie." 



C. citrina Rafinesque, Med. Repos. II. 5: 362. 1808; Desvaux, 

 Jour, de Bot. 1 : 233. 1808. 



"Cylindrique, fistuleuse, aggregee, jaunatre; sommet mince, 

 demi-obtus. 



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En Pensylvanie." 



C. citrino-fusca Rafinesque, Med. Repos. II. 5: 362. 1808; 

 Desvaux, Jour, de Bot. 1 : 233. 1808. 



"Demi-aggregee, subulee, jaune; sommet brun aigu. 

 "Dans Fetat de Pensylvanie." 



