58 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



New York : Ithaca. Atkinson. ( Cornell Herb.). 



Numerous other places in New York are represented by collections at 

 Albany and in the N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb. 



Massachusetts: Sprague. (Curtis Herb, and Kew Herb., as C. tctragona.) 

 Spores smooth, 4-4.5 x4.5-5.2/a. 



Farlow. (Kew Herb.). 



Vermont: Stratton. Spores spherical, 5.5-7.5/*. 

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



New Hampshire : Chocorua. Farlow. (U. N. C. Herb, from Farlow Herb., 

 as C. inoequalis). Spores smooth, subspherical, 5-6. 5,u thick. Basidia 

 4.5-6/x thick, usually 4-spored (rarely 2). 



Maine: Davis. (Albany Herb., as C. platyclada ). 



Clavaria pulchra Pk. Rept. N. Y. St. Mus. 28: 53, pi. 1, fig. 

 10. 1876. 

 C. angustata Pers. (Sense of Schw.). Comm., p. 72 (204), 



pi. 1, fig. 3. 1797. 

 C. persimilis Cotton. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. 3 : 182. 1909. 



Plates 1, 6, 13, and 82 



Plants gregarious, mostly cespitose in clusters of several to 

 about twenty, often single or in twos and threes, not densely fas- 

 cicled or fused at base in large groups as in C. fusiformis or C. 

 fumosa, but several individuals may be so fused; 1.5-7.4 cm. 

 high, 1.2-6 mm. thick near the top, long club-shaped or nearly 

 cylindrical, at times compressed and grooved, tapering downward, 

 the stem not distinct from the club, except for decidedly lighter 

 color usually, the base incrassated or not so ; apex bluntly rounded, 

 not apiculate ; surface smooth, egg-yellow, the base and at times 

 the apex lighter, or the apex may be darker. Flesh toughish, 

 elastic, cracking but not snapping at 45°, stuffed or varying to im- 

 perfectly or distinctly hollow at maturity ; taste sweetish and pleas- 

 ant, odor none. 



Spores (of No. 1717) white, oblong-ovoid with a prominent 

 mucro on one side near the large end, usually with a distinct oil 

 drop, 4.6 x 6-7[j.. Basidia ( in dried plants ) about 5-7ui thick, 4- 

 spored, smaller than in C. fusiformis. 



On bare earth or decaying leaves in deciduous or mixed woods. 



The type of C. pulchra agrees in all respects with our plants so 

 far as can be seen in the dried state, and the spores are of the 

 same characteristic shape, 4.4 x 6.7y*. Our plants (No. 1717) have 



