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Mycologia 



posed of narrow, straight hyphae with large lactiferous tubes, 

 and the spores are the same. In these small plants they average 

 larger than in Clavaria fistulosa, 14-18x6-9 /a. The color of 

 both species is the same. The young plants are stuffed and di- 

 rectly erumpent from the wood. Von Hoehnel found such forms 

 as these growing with specimens of true Clavaria fistulosa. The 

 usual description of Clavaria contort a reads : " Plants simple, 

 erumpent, stuffed, spongy-fleshy, soft to the touch, somewhat 

 twisted, rugose, obtuse, pruinose, watery-yellow. On dead 

 branches of alder, hazel, etc. 2.5-3 cm. high, 6-9 mm. thick." 



Von Hoehnel thinks that Clavaria brachiata Fries is also a form 

 of Clavaria fistulosa, with the clubs branching. 



Clavaria juncea Fries. PI. 5 



The plants grow on dead leaves of frondose trees and the de- 

 cumbent, creeping base is attached to the leaf by white, villous 

 mycelium. The mycelium appears to live in the mould and 

 grows up over the leaves to form the fruiting clubs. The erect 

 club is about 2 inches high, slender and straight, either obtuse 

 at the apex as in B or acute as in C. Under favorable weather 

 conditions the plants are very numerous and cover the leaves 

 over wide spaces as shown in A. On one occasion there was 

 a thick forest of these slender clubs on both sides of a path 

 in the woods covering the leaves for a distance of twenty-five 

 feet. The description of the species reads : " Gregarious, thin, 

 filiform, flaccid, fistulose, acute, from pallid to rufescent, base 

 creeping, fibrillose." According to Winter, the spores are obo- 

 void, 4/x in diameter. Schroeter gives the measurements as 

 8-9 X 4-5 ft. In our plants, the spores are 9-12 X 4-5 P an d 

 shaped like those in the other species in the group. 



Clavaria juncea is the most common species in the group and 

 has been illustrated seven times, according to Saccardo in the 

 nineteenth volume of his " Sylloge." It is also reported from 

 Ceylon and Australia. 



Var. vivipara is a form reported in Europe and figured by 

 Bulliard in his plate 463 and also by Britzelmayr. It has the 

 club as well as the rooting base fibrillose on the sides. In all 

 the Neebish plants the erect portion of the club was smooth. 



