Clavariacese 



Clavaria. (Plate CXLII.) 



as if truncated, pallid or almost whitish in color, 

 generally growing in imperfect circles or curved 

 lines. 



Under spruce and balsam trees. Adirondack 

 mountains. August. Peck, 39th Rep. N. Y. 

 State Bot. 



Where pines have grown, but where now oak 

 and chestnut trees make rather open woods, it 

 grows at Mt. Gretna, Pa. A stumpy fungus im- 

 pressing one as stunted. Its texture is solid. 

 It does not cook tender, but yields a fungus 

 flavor to the cooking medium. 



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Growing on wood. 



CLAVARIA CIRCINANS. 

 (After Peck.) 



C. Stric'ta Pers. stringo, to draw tight. 

 Height 2-3 in. Color pale dull-yellow becom- 

 ing brown when bruised. Stem distinct, thick, short. Branches numer- 

 ous, repeatedly forked, straight, closely pressed, tips pointed. 



Spores dark cinnamon, Fries; creamy yellow 4x6^ W.G.S. 



Var. fu'mida. The whole plant is a dingy, smoky-brownish hue, 

 otherwise of the typical form. Catskill mountains. September. In 

 the fresh state the specimens appear very unlike the ordinary form, but 

 in the dried state they are scarcely to be distinguished. Peck, 4ist 

 Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Eaten in Germany. 



This form occurs in West Virginia mountains and at Mt. Gretna, Pa., 

 Trenton, N. J., in August and September, among leaves in mixed 

 woods. It compares favorably with the ordinary run of Clavaria. 



C. dicho'toma God. dividing by pairs. Cespitose, white; branches 

 regularly dividing by pairs, elongated, flexuous, diverging, somewhat 

 compressed, extremities obtuse, rounded at or just below the apex 

 broadly compressed. 



On the ground, under beeches. 



"Notwithstanding its beauty this is dangerous. In 1883, when it 

 was very plentiful, I saw entire families sick from it and in 1888 there 

 was a repetition with new victims. 



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