Clavariacero 



North Carolina, Sckweinits, Curtis; Ohio; New York, Peck, 4/th ciavaria. 

 Rep. 



Edible. Curtis. 



C. Her'veyi Pk. Gregarious or subcespitose, simple or with a few 

 branches, often compressed or irregular, scarcely I in. high, golden- 

 yellow, sometimes brownish at the apex. Flesh white. Branches 

 when present, short, simple or terminating in few or many more or less 

 acute denticles. Spores globose, 7-5/x, broad, minutely roughened; 

 mycelium white. 



Ground under hemlock trees. Orono, Me. September. F. L. 

 Hervey. 



Allied to C. fastigiata and C. muscoides, but distinct from both by 

 its more irregular and less branching character and by its larger spores. 

 Peck, 45th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Near Haddonfield, N. J., August, 1890, among scrub pines and 

 spruce. A pretty species of medium flavor. 



* Plant white, gray or yellowish. 



C. COralloi'des Linn. Height 2-4 in., usually tufted, growing into, 

 each other, white Trunk thick, short, much branched. Branches 

 repeatedly forked, compressed, hollow within, fragile, dilated upward, 

 tips crowded acute. 



Occasionally the branches do not develop entirely and are obtuse; 

 they then somewhat resemble in shape C. rugosa, but are not wrinkled. 



Spores pale-ochraceous, pointed, ioxS/u Massee. 



Indiana, H. I. Miller ; West Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 Mcllvaine. 



A common edible species in Europe. Common in United States. 



The writer has eaten it for many years. It is not always tender. It 

 should be young, fresh, and the branches alone cooked. It requires 

 slow, patient cooking if at all old. It does dry well, as stated by some 

 writers, but it does not wet well again. 



C. cine'rea Bull. dnis, ashes. (Plate CXL.) Height 1-3 in., 

 gregarious or tufted, sometimes in rows. Gray. Stem either thin or 

 thick, short, lighter than branches. Branches very numerous com- 



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