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 274 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



7. L. bicolor (Peck) Burt, n. comb. Plate 5, fig. 6. 

 Clavaria bicolor Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 54: 954. 1902. 



Not C. bicolor Massee, Kew Bui. 1901 : 154. 1901. C. Peckii 

 Sacc. & D. Sacc. in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 17: 196. 1905. C. vestipes 

 Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 116: 35. 1907. 

 Type: in N. Y. State Mus. Herb. 



Fructifications small, 2-2 J cm. high, gregarious; 

 fo stem slender, 1-2 mm. thick, straight or flexuous, 



O O s hd> tomentose, pale yellow, divided above into 

 \y two or more short, orange-colored, compressed 



branches which are themselves once or twice 

 L. bicolor. dichotomously divided; tips acute, concolorous. 

 Spores, x 870. Under pine trees. New Hampshire, Massachu- 

 setts, and New York. August and September. 

 The specimens which I have referred to this species are larger 

 in the Massachusetts collection and range from 2| to 5 cm. high; 

 towards the base the stem is hirsute-tomentose and has 

 dried tawny olive, honey-yellow in the upper portions; the 

 basidia are 45X8 n, with two sterigmata; and the spores are 

 hyaline, even, subglobose, 9|X8-9 m- Verification by com- 

 parison with the type was overlooked. 



Specimens examined: 

 New Hampshire: Chocorua, W. G. Farlow (in Farlow Herb.). 

 Massachusetts: Coolidge Point, Magnolia, W. G. Farlow. 



8. L. furcellatum (Fries) Leveille, as understood by Patouii- 

 lard, Jour, de Bot. 3 : 26. pi. l.f.3. 1889; Leveilte, Ann. Sci. 

 Nat. Bot. III. 5: 159. 1846 (Eriocladus) ; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 

 6: 738. 1888; Not of Berk. & Curtis, Linn. Soc. Bot. Jour. 10: 

 330. 1868. Plate 5, fig. 7. 



Clavaria furcellata Fries, Linnaea 5: 531. 1830; Epicr. 576. 

 1838. 



Illustrations: Plumier, Filic. Am. pi. 168. f. L. 1705; Patouil- 

 lard, Jour, de Bot. 3: pi. l.f. 3. 1889. 



Fructifications ascending, somewhat ferruginous, with 

 branches solid, repeatedly dichotomous, distant, rather tough, 

 velvety, acuminate. 



