DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME FAMILIAR MUSHROOMS. 139 



CLAVARIA INEQUALIS = unequal. 

 The Unequal Clavaria. 



This fungus is yellow and fragile. The clubs 

 are alike in color, simple or forked, and variable. 

 It is common in woods and pastures. We found 

 it in September in the woods, rather wrinkled 

 in appearance. It is not classed among the 

 edible species. 



TYPHULA — reed mace. 



One may sometimes see among the dead 

 leaves in the woods, minute slender bodies with 

 thread-like steins, springing up from the ground, 

 2 to 3 inches high, of a white color and cylin- 

 drical in shape. They look like slender stems 

 from which the blossoms have been plucked. 

 They are called Typhula. They grow on 

 dead leaves, on mosses, or on dead herbaceous 

 stems. The name is taken from the Cat Tail 

 family, the Typhaceae, which they somewhat 

 resemble in miniature. 



