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70 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



medium as to whether only 2-spored ; spores hyaline, even, slight- 

 curved, 5-6x2Vi> u, copious. The hyphae have the outer 

 portion of the wall gelatinously modified and the center of the 

 club, which Peck noted as not as firm in texture as the hymen- 

 ium, has become very hard in the dried clubs and did not soften 

 after moderately prolonged moistening. 



EXOTIC SPECIES 



104. Clavaria decolor Berk. & Curtis, Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 

 Proc. 4: 124. 1858; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 712. 1888. 



Plate 11, fig. 109. 



Type: specimen from type collection in Farlow Herb. 



"Ex albo umbrina; stipite cylindrico e fibris ramosis oriundo 

 sursum subdichotomo, ramis brevibus. 



"On hill-sides, Hong Kong. - Allied to C. abietina" 



The earth at base of the fructifications shows that they grew 

 on the ground. The collector's note with the specimen is "In 

 dense thickets on hillsides, Hong Kong. White soon turning 

 brown or black." 



The fructifications are now between drab and hair-brown; 

 spores hyaline, minutely rough, globose, 3-4x3 u, numerous but 

 none seen attached to basidia, and possibly foreign, because the 

 specimens are mouldy. 





105. C. delicia Berkeley, Hooker's Jour. Bot. 8 : 274. 1856 ; 

 Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 710. 1888. Plate 11, fig. 110. 



Lachnocladium delicia (Berk.) Cooke, Grevillea20: 10. 1891. 



Type : probably in Kew Herb., a specimen from the type collec- 

 tion in Curtis Herb. 



"Ochracea, caespitosa, delicata; stipitibus brevibus cylindricis 



e mycelio candido membranaceo oriundis, ramis furcatis hie illic 



divergent! bus, ultimis acutissimis. Spruce, n. 161. 



"Hab. On dead leaves and twigs. March, 1853. Panure. 

 [Brazil]. 



"Ochraceous, about half an inch high, forming delicate, tree- 

 like tufts. Stems short, cylindrical, clothed at the base with a 

 little down, and arising from a white, downy, membranous disc, 

 forked two or three times, some of the branches spreading so 

 as to form little tree-like tufts; ultimate ramuli very acute. 



"An extremely pretty species, with the habit of C. flaccida, 

 but approaching in substance the white-branched Thelephorae, 



