Clavarias of the United States and Canada 51 



October 16, 1913. No. 1396. On bare earth in woods, October 21, 

 1914. Plants 1.5-3.5 cm. high. Spores 2.5-3.4x5.1-6.8/*. No. 2402. 

 On ground in woods, July 20, 1916. No. 2669. In damp mixed woods, 

 July 14, 1917. No. 2732. Mixed woods, July 21, 1917. No. 2815. 

 Low mixed woods, July 30, 1917. A very light lot, almost white in 

 lower third. No. 3478. Damp ground, August 22, 1919. Spores 

 elliptic, 4 x 5-7.5/*. 



Asheville. Miss Burlingham. We cannot find spores on this collection, 

 but the dried plants seem identical with ours. 



Pink Bed Valley. Miss Burlingham. (U. N. C. Herb.). Spores 3-3.3 x 5-6/*. 



Blowing Rock. Coker and party, No. 5765. On earth in mixed woods, 

 August 24, 1922. (U. N. C. Herb.). Spores 3-3.5x5.6-7.4/*. 



New York: Vaughns. Coker and Burnham, No. 112. (U. N. C. Herb.). 

 Ithaca. (Albany Herb.). 



Connecticut: Redding. Coker. (U. N. C. Herb.). Color pale smoky 

 flesh, tips fading black ; spores ovate to pip-shaped, about 3 x 4.8-7/*. 



Clavaria purpurea Mull. Fl. Dan., pi. 837, fig. 2. 1780. (Not 

 C. purpurea SchaefT.) 

 C. nebulosa Pk. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 25 : 326. 1898. 



Plates 8 and 82 



Gregarious and densely cespitose in clumps up to 20 individuals, 

 a few single, 2.5-6.5 cm. high, usually crooked and twisted, flat- 

 tened and channelled, 2-6 mm. broad the flat way, dull brown with 

 a tint of smoky purple (about avellaneous to fawn or wood-brown), 

 nearly cylindrical or narrowly fusiform, rather abruptly pointed, 

 ending below in a short, terete, ill-defined stem which is white 

 from a plush-like tomentum below; apex of club quickly becom- 

 ing black and withering flabby; surface dull, in many places 

 glaucous. Flesh white, or when soaked nearly the surface color, 

 solid but easily becoming hollow by the separation of the fibers, 

 fragile, dry, tender, and flaky, snapping at 45°; taste none; odor 

 distinctly musty, about like a gourd. Threads of flesh near the 

 hymenium 7.5-1 ly. thick, in center of club 15-19[x thick, regularly 

 parallel and composed of cells about 55-95[/. long, with occasional 

 clamp connections and usually constricted and rounded at the 

 joints. 



Spores (of No. 4860) smooth, white, elliptic, 3.7-4.5 x 8.5-12[x. 

 Basidia very inconspicuous, clavate, about 30[x long and 7\x thick 

 with 4 short sterigmata. 



