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of these slightly faded plants were nearly white, not sharply dis- 

 tinct from the dull cream colored clubs. For a later and fuller 

 description of C. fuscata by Oudemans, see Rev. Champignons 1 : 

 439. 1892. 



Our Chapel Hill plants are a small form of the species. 

 Otherwise they agree well with the European and New York 

 plants. 



The type of C. foetida in Ithaca consists of one good plant 

 and a few fragments. A note accompanying it says "odor of 

 skunk cabbage." The plant is long and slender and largest in the 

 middle. We could find no spores. Atkinson's description follows : 



"Plants white, yellow when dry, stipe not distinct, gradually 

 tapering below, 4-6 cm. high, 1.5-2 mm. stout. Odor of garlic. 

 Basidia 2-spored. Spores oboval, granular, then with a large oil 

 drop, 6-9 x 5-7[x." 



Illustration: Burt. Ann. Mo. Bot. Card. 9: pi. 9, tig. 81 (as C. foetida). 

 1922. 



North Carolina : Chapel Hill. No. 3459. On sandy soil with humus at 

 Meeting of the Waters, August 16, 1919. No. 3475. In damp, sandy 

 humus, deciduous woods, August 22, 1919. Spores 4.8-6.6 x 7.5-98/x. 

 No. 3485. Same spot as No- 3475, August 23, 1919. 



New York: Ithaca. Ferguson. (Cornell Herb., as type of C. foetida, No. 

 7740). 



Clavaria acuta Sow. Engl. Fungi, pi. 333. 1803. 



?Clavaria falcata Pers. Comm., p. 81 (213). 1797. 



Plates 81 and 92 



This classical product of conservatory tubs has rarely been 

 collected in America. We have found it in some quantity in a 

 large tub in the main conservatory range in the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden. The plants ran considerably smaller than usually 

 reported, but were otherwise typical. They were growing in the 

 same tub with C. lutco-ochracea, which see for comparison. Our 

 plants may be described as follows : 



Single or approximated in small clumps, 1-2 cm. high, nar- 

 rowly clavate or cylindrical, terete, about 1-1.3 mm. thick above, 

 tapering downward, the stalk about 0.5-1 cm. long and very trans- 

 lucent ; club blunt or a little pointed ; milk-white throughout ; tex- 

 ture brittle, snapping clean on bending ; solid. Taste slight, a little 

 mouldy ; odor none. 



