60 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



Chappaqua. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., as C. vermicularis) . Spores 5.5 x 

 6.5-7/*. 



Frostburg. (Albany Herb.). Spores typical, 4.8 x 6.6/*. 



Forge. Peck. (Albany Herb.). 



Sandlake. Peck. (Albany Herb.). Spores typical. 



Tripoli. Burnham, No. 83. (U. N. C. Herb.). 



Ithaca. C. O. Smith. (Bresadola Herb., as C. platyclada). 

 Connecticut: Redding. Coker. 4 collections, September 6, 1919. (U. N. 



C. Herb.). Spores as usual. 4-4.8 x 5-7.5//,. 

 Vermont: Newfane. Miss Hibbard. (U. N. C. Herb.). 

 Maine: Sebec Lake. Murrill. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



Clavaria aurantio-cinnabarina Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 

 11,4: 183. 1832. 



Plates 1 and 82 



Plants loosely clustered, some single, 1.5-4 cm. high, simple, 

 the tips blunt or rather pointed, and sometimes a little flattened 

 or knobbed, 1.2-2.6 mm. thick, nearly equal, at times channeled, 

 usually crooked, base without a distinct stem or color ; entire plant 

 a deep orange-red (orange-chrome of Ridgway) ; flesh moderately 

 brittle, not snapping with a clean break and only after a bend of 

 45° or more, color of surface when very fresh, but soon the sur- 

 face becomes lighter by fading to buffy orange, leaving the flesh a 

 deeper color, solid, quite mild and almost tasteless, but with a dis- 

 tinct though not very strong fetid-aromatic odor, a little like a 

 wharf or sewer but not so bad (noted by all of four persons who 

 tested it) . The base may be faintly paler than the club, but where 

 the hymenium ends can scarcely be distinguished even with a lens. 

 In drying the plants become a lighter orange-buff. The tips when 

 dry are sharply different from the clubs, being very smooth, not 

 wrinkled, not shrunken and therefore larger and of a deeper 

 ochraceous red color. A section shows them to be sterile over the 

 upper half. They look in the larger plants like distinct caps. 

 This contrasting tip in the dried state is also found in C. vernalis, 

 C. filipes (No. 2804) and to a less noticeable extent in C. helveola. 



Spores (of No. 2801) apparently yellowish (from a thin print 

 on a slide), but perhaps white, smooth, subspherical, with an eccen- 

 tric mucro of moderate size, most of the space occupied by the 

 cheesy or oily matter, the vacuoles eccentric as in C. fusiformis, 



