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Fructifications somewhat cartilaginous, erect, drying honey- 

 yellow to olive-brown, densely and repeatedly branched above; 

 branches cylindric, very sharp-pointed; stem 

 / ] slender, cylindric, strigose-hairy at the base; 



spores hyaline, even, 9X6 ju, slightly flattened 



a 



on one side, apiculate. 

 Fi g# g. Fructifications 4 cm. high, 1-2 J cm. in diam- 



L. cartilagineum. eter; stem l-2 cm. long, 1 2 mm. in diameter. 

 Spores, x 870. 0n the groun( i. October. Cuba. 



Patouillard has noted the spores of this species as ochraceous 

 and a little smaller than I find them. The spores are very 

 abundant in preparations from the type specimen, but the 

 basidia are not well enough preserved to demonstrate whether 

 simple or longitudinally cruciately septate. 



Specimens examined: 

 Cuba: C. Wright, 204, type (in Curtis Herb.). 



3. L. Micheneri Berk. & Curtis, Grevillea 1: 161. 1873; 

 Morgan, Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. Jour. 10: 192. 1888; 

 Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 739. 1888; Hard, Mushrooms, 476. text 

 f. Jfil. 1908. Plate 5, fig. 3. 



Clavaria fragrans Ell. & Ev. N. Am. Fungi, 2023. 1888. 

 See Cooke, Grevillea 17: 59. 1889. An Lachnocladium odo- 

 ratum Atkinson, Ann. Myc. 6: 58; 1908? 



Illustrations: Hard, Mushrooms, textf. 401. 



Type: in Kew Herb, and Curtis Herb. 



Fructifications gregarious, coriaceous, dry, repeatedly forked 

 and branched and drying drab-gray above; stem cylindric, 



light buff, tomentose below, arising singly 



0/^) or in a few individuals from more or 



<f*\ C\ 0(P ^ ess e ff use d> mycelial patches on decaying 

 a, 04- leaves; smaller branches filiform, flexuous, 



F* L Mh with paler tips ; irregular, tomentose patches 



Spores, x 87; a, from type; at various places on main trunk, branches, 

 b, from Burt coll. or axils of branches where hymenium has 



failed to develop; hymenium glabrous, 

 no cystidia nor hairs present; spores hyaline, even, 6-12- 

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