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exception of a few odd plants, which are obviously small tufts 
of €. fustformis. There can be no doubt therefore that 
Berkeley’s idea of C. zuaegualis was the rough spored plant. 
Other specimens of the species in question in the Herbaria of 
Currey, Broom, Bloxam (Gn British Museum) and Cooke (at 
Kew), together with various Continental exsiccati prove to be 
rough spored. Nota single plant is to be found in the Kew or 
British Museum collections, which can be called C. inaequalis, 
with smooth elliptical spores 10 x 5y, nor has such a plant been 
observed in the material sent to the writer by correspondents 
during the past three or four years; all on the other hand are 
rough spored.” Finally, Karsten’s own exsiccati, No. 439, re- 
ferred to by him in the passage above quoted, does not show 
the character of spore he described, but on the contrary those 
of the globose roughened type. 
It seems therefore certain, that the statement, spores elliptical 
10 x 5» was incorrect, and that the description of C. dissipabilis 
as a new species was the result of this erroneous impression. t 
C. inaequalis Miller must therefore be described as a species 
possessing sharply warted or spiney, irregularly globose spores, 
5-6 diam. (excl. spines) and including C. diss?pabilis Britz. and 
C. similis Boud. and Pat. as synonyms. 
CLAVARIA FISTULOSA Holmsk. 
For the benefit of members of the Society, notes may be here 
added drawing attention to observations on this species by F. 
von. Hohnel. His results are published in the Oesterreische 
Botanische Zeitschrift 1904, p. 425-427. 
C. fistulosa, was described by Persoon in 1 797 (Comm. de 
Fungi Clavaeformibus, p. 34), though the name had been pre- 
viously employed by Holmskiold (Annalen der Botanik, xvii, 
rat Pp. 04; see also, Beata ruris otia 1799? vol. 1., p. 15 with 
ig.) 
In 1799 Sowerby described C. Ardenia in “ English Fungi,” 
tab. 215. There is no doubt that this is a synonym of C. jfis- 
tulosa, as Schroeter, Quélet and others have assumed. Massee 
is also of the same opinion, and it was by an oversight that in 
1892 he kept them apart (Brit. Fung. Flora, vol. i, p. 86 and 87). 
Von Héhnel now adds C. contorta Holmsk as a further 
synonym. ‘his plant, of which little has been hitherto known, 
* A small plant with spores 7x3 “ has been met with which is generally 
labelled in Herbaria C. helvola, Pers. Some writers have taken this plant for 
C, maequalis, it cannot however for one moment be regarded as the C. 
maequalis of Flora Danica. 
+The spores of C. argillacea Fr. correspond to the measurement 10x 5“. 
AS this species has not infrequently been mistaken for C. inaequalis, we 
have here a possible explanation of the origin of the error. 
