68 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



Illustration : Burt. As cited above. 



North Carolina : Blowing Rock. Coker and party, No. 5620. In deep 

 woods mold near Glen Mary Falls, August 20, 1922. Typical. Spores 

 7.4-8.2x8.5-9.5/*.. No. 5671. In moss and humus on Cone estate, 

 August 22, 1922. Up to 8.8 cm. high. Also several other collections 

 in similar locations. (All in U. N. C. Herb.). 



Virginia: Mountain Lake. Murrill. Abundant on a wet clay bank, July 

 1909. (U. N. C. Herb.). Spores 8-8.5 x 9.3-10.5/*. 



New York : Sand Lake. Peck. Wet places among sphagnum in woods. 

 (Albany Herb. Type). 



Ithaca. Atkinson. (Bresadola Herb., Stockholm). 



Catskills. Peck. (Albany Herb., as C. argillacea) . Spores subspherical, 

 about 7.5-9.3/* thick. 



Connecticut : Redding. Coker, No. 29. At base of a hemlock and in moss 

 on rock by brook, September 7, 1919. 



Massachusetts : Stow. In a swamp at base of a maple in woods composed 

 mostly of deciduous trees, a conifer here and there. Simon Davis. 

 (Albany Herb, and U. N. C. Herb.). Mr. Davis says: "Attracted my 

 attention because of its two colors. The branches being of a dull leaden 

 gray, while the stem was fuscous and adorned with erect, sharp-pointed 

 spines." 



Clavaria cristata (Holmsk.) Pers. Syn. Met. Fung., p. 591. 

 1801. 



C. coralloides L. (in part). Fl. Suecica, 2nd. ed., p. 457. 1755. 



C. albida Schaeff. Fung. Bavar., p. 116, pi. 170. 1763. 



C. laciniata Schaeff. Fung. Bavar., p. 122, pi. 291. 1770. 



C. cinerea Bull. Herb. Fr., p. 204, pi. 354. 1787. 



C. rugosa Bull. Herb. Fr., p. 206, pi. 448, fig. 2. 1789. (Not 

 C. rugosa in sense of Sowerby, Engl. Fungi, pi. 235.) 



C. elegans Bolton. Hist. Fung. Halifax, p. 115, pi. 115. 1789. 



C.amethystea Bull. Herb. Fr., p. 200, pi. 496, fig. 2. 1790. 



Ramaria cristata Holmsk. Beata Ruris 1: 92, pi. 23. 1790. 

 (p. 97, Persoon's ed. 1797). 



C.fimbriata Pers. N. Mag. Bot. (Romer's), p. 117. 1794. 



C. trichopus Pers. Comm., p. 50 (182), pi. 4, fig. 3. 1797. 



C. fallax Pers. Comm., p. 48 (180). 1797. 



C.palmata Pers. Comm., p. 45 (177). 1797. (Not C. pal- 

 mat a Scop. ) 



C. grisea Pers. Comm., p. 44 (176). 1797. 



C. grossa Pers. Comm., p. 50 (182). 1797. 



