[Vol. 6 

 272 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



On the ground. Pennsylvania. 



The fructifications of L. semivestitum probably occur solitary 



or gregarious on the ground. Distinguishing characters are 

 slender, erect habit of growth, appressed branches, 

 and large, hyaline, even spores. In the dried 

 specimen the branches are pruinose rather than 

 hairy. Cooke referred to L. semivestitum the 

 specimens distributed by Ell. & Ev., N. Am. 



L semivestitum. Fungi, 2024, under the name Clavaria velutina Ell. 



Spores, x 870; & Ev. without description, and Ellis & Everhart 



from type. distributed in Fungi Col., 808, under the name 



L. semivestitum specimens growing on rotten wood 



in West Virginia, but neither of these distributions can be L. 



semivestitum, for their spores are much too small. 

 Specimens examined: 



Pennsylvania: E. Michener, 1184, type (in Curtis Herb., 4260). 



5. L. subsimile Berk. Grevillea i: 161. 1873; Sacc. Syll. 

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



Type: in Kew Herb, and Curtis Herb. 



Fructifications coriaceous, slender, delicately and repeatedly 



dichotomously branched, minutely tomentose except on the 



branchlets, drying between light brownish 



^ olive and buffy brown; spores hyaline, even, 



* lO O 3-3|X2|-3 M . ' 



Fructification 2| cm. high, \ cm. in diameter. 

 Fig. n. On ground in woods. New Jersey and Penn- 



Sport^"'; a, sylvania. September. 



from type; b, from L. subsimile in its dried condition has colora- 

 Michener specimen tion and general aspect very like L. semivestitum 



Herb 10 ' ^ Gard * but the branches of the former curve rather 

 more apart at the axils and are not as closely 



appressed above. Only three spores were found in a preparation 

 from the specimen in Curtis Herb., which may be rather im- 

 mature; these spores are very small in comparison with those of 

 L. semivestitum. The specimen distributed in Ell. & Ev., N. 

 Am. Fungi, 2024, under the name Clavaria velutina E. & E., 

 without description, and the collection from Pennsylvania, both 



