1919] 



BURT TKELEPHORACEAE OF NORTH AMERICA. XI 271 



Fructifications 2^-4 cm. high, 1-1 \ cm. broad; main stem 2-3 

 mm. in diameter. 



On rotting leaves in groves. Canada to New Jersey and 

 westward to Missouri. 



This species forms an orbicular, villose or mycelial patch on 

 the surface of leaves very often beech leaves and from these 

 patches arise one or two stems, which are tomentose below. 

 In the field notes of this species I have the record, " bitter to 

 taste/ ' but the dried specimens are not bitter now. 



Specimens examined: 

 Exsiccati: Ell. & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 2023, type distribution of 



Clavaria fragrans; Ell. & Ev., Fungi Col., 1022. 

 Canada: Ontario, London, J. Dearness, in Ell. & Ev., Fungi Col., 



1022. 

 Vermont: Newfane, C. D. Howe; Sudbury, E. A. Burt. 

 New York: Snyders, C. H. Peck (in N. Y. State Mus. Herb. 



and in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 56113). 

 New Jersey: Newfield, /. B. Ellis, in Ell. & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 



2023. 

 Pennsylvania: E. Michener, 479, type (in Curtis Herb., 3534); 



Bethlehem, Schweinitz, the Clavaria crispula and C. bys- 



siseda of Schweinitz, Syn. N. Am. Fungi, 1024 and 1034 



respectively (in Herb. Schweinitz). 

 Ohio: C. G. Lloyd, 3817 (in Lloyd Herb., Burt Herb., Farlow 



Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 44653); Oxford, L. 0. 



Overholts, 1487 (in Overholts Herb.). 

 Missouri: Wickes, E. A. Burt (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 43813.) 



4. L. semivestitum Berk. & Curtis, Grevillea 1: 161. 1873; 

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

 Syll. Fung. 6: 739. 1888. Plate 5, fig. 4. 



Type: in Kew Herb, and Curtis Herb. 



Fructifications coriaceous, erect, repeatedly furcate-branched, 

 the branches terete, rather straight, rising rather close together, 

 everywhere clothed with whitish down except on the final 

 branchlets, drying between light brownish olive and buffy 

 brown; spores of the type hyaline, even, 12-15X5-6 n. 



Fructifications 3-4 cm. high, about 1 cm. in diameter across 

 branches. 



