NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY 143 



Ground in woods, Glcncoe. November. Wyrick. Color 

 dingy gray; spores white, subglobose, 8 to 9 /x. Karsten describes 

 the spores of this species as "angulate- or ellipsoid-sphaeroid, 

 hyaline, 8 fi." Massec as "ochraceous, pointed, 10 x 8 /x." 



Clavaria Kunzei Fr. 



Somewhat fragile, cespitose from a slender base, very much 

 branched, pure white; the branches elongated, crowded, repeatedly 

 forked, fastigiate, even, equal, compressed at the axils. 



Plant 3.5 to 5 cm. high. 



On the ground in damp woods, Glen Ellyn. August. Plants 

 shining wdiite; spores white, smooth, subglobose, 3 to 4 /x. 



Clavaria stricta Pers. 



Very much branched, pale yellowish, brownish when rubbed, 

 the trunk rather thick; branches and branchlets straight, rather 

 even, crowded and appressed, acute. 



Plant 5 to 7.5 cm. high; spores creamy-yellow, 4 x 6 /x. 



On old stumps and partly buried decayed wood in open woods, 

 Glen Ellyn. 



Clavaria crispula Fr. 



Very much branched, alutaceous then ochraceous, the trunk 

 slender; branches flexuous, multifid, the branchlets divaricate. 



Rooting at the base by long white fibrils. Plant 2.5 to 5 cm. 

 high. Spores creamy-yellow, 3 to 5 /x. (W. G. S.) 



In moist woods, the long slender white rootlets usually grow- 

 ing upon or around decaying sticks or twigs. The spores in our 

 plants are creamy-yellow, 6 to 7 x 10 /x. In other respects the 

 specimens agree with the above description. 



Clavaria fragilis Holmsk. 



Fasciculate, very fragile, white below, tapering downward; 

 clubs hollow, a little obtuse, variable. 



On the ground in a shaded ravine, Glencoe. August. A very 

 beautiful species. Stems clustered, terete, tapering downward 

 and tapering upward to a somewhat obtuse apex; 2.5 to 10 cm. 

 high, pure white, very fragile; spores minute, subellipsoid, white, 

 2\ to 3 /x. 

 Clavaria pistillaris L. Plate XXII, Fig. 2. 



Simple, large, fleshy, stuffed, obovate-clavate, obtuse, yellow 

 then rufescent. 



Plants attaining a height of 15 cm. and a thickness of 2.5 cm. 

 at the summit; spores white, 10 x 5 /x. 



Wooded ravines north of Chicago. Bates, Bertolet. 



CALOCERA. 



Plants cylindrical or awl-shaped, terete, simple or branched, 

 gelatinous, drying horny; without a distinct stem. 



Plant 6 mm. or less in height, branchlets obtuse C. pahftata 



Plant 12 mm. or more in height, branchlets acute C. cornea 



