[Vol. 7 



72 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



cirrhata Berkeley, Hooker's Jour. Bot. 8 : 275. pi. 5. 



f. 6. 1850; Sacc. Sy 



specimen in Curtis Herb 



J Mate 11, fig 



bus 



Caespitosa, alba, ramosa; ramis suberectis cylindr 



"Hab. On the ground. Mount Cocui. [Brazil]. 



"Two inches high, ochraceous, white, caespitose, much 

 branched; branches cylindrical, tips straight or curved. 



"This was first referred as a variety to Clavaria jurcellata, 

 but this indication is untenable, and I have therefore described it 

 under a distinct name." 



Instead of being only 2 inches high as published, the dried 

 fructification is twice that height, or 9y 2 cm., as shown by the 

 accompanying illustration which is natural size. The hymenial 

 regions are now cartridge-buff and the stem and sterile branch 



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portions pinkish buff and fibrillose-squamulose ; the axile tissue 

 of stem and branches is somewhat colored; spores hyaline, even, 

 globose, 5-6 n in diameter. 



The consistency of the moistened fructification seems to me 

 too firm and tough for Clavaria and I believe that this species 

 will be transferred to Lachno cladium , when its characters are 

 better known from the study of specimens in fresh condition. 

 Perhaps the South American Lachno cladium cirratum or one of 

 Hennings' Brazilian species may prove identical with Berkeley's 

 C. cirrhata. 



109. Lachnocladium dealbatum (Berk.) Cooke, Grevillea 20: 



10. 1901. Plate 11, fig. 114. 



Clavaria dealbata Berkeley, Hooker's Jour. Bot. 8: 275. 1856; 

 Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 707. 1888. 



Type: specimen from the type collection in Curtis Herb. 



"Caespitosa, alba, opaca; stipite brevi tenui cylindrico sursum 

 5-C-furcato ramis dilatatis, apicibus subuncinatis acutis. Spruce, 

 n. 159. 



"Hal). On the ground. March, 1853. Panure. [Brazil]. 



"White, opaque, 2 inches or more high, caespitose, fastigiate. 

 Stem short, cylindrical, not a line thick, forked five or six times 

 so as to make a tree-like tuft, dilated above, the ultimate di- 

 visions somewhat divaricate, the forks below acute, above 

 rounded, ultimate ramuli acute. 



"A very singular species, remarkable for its white-washed ap- 

 pearance. The branches, except at the extremities, are far 



