Clavarias of the United States and Canada 45 



Clavaria vermiculata Micheli. Nova Plant. Gen., p. 209, pi. 87, 

 fig. 12. 1729. (Also Scopoli in Fl. Cam. 2: 483. 1772.) 

 C. cylindrica Bull. Herb. Fr., p. 212, pi. 463, fig. 1. 1789. 

 C. fragilis Holmsk. Beata Ruris 1 : 7, pis. 2 and 3. 1790. 

 C. gracilis Sow. Engl. Fungi, pi. 232. 1797. 

 C. eburnea Pers. Syn. Met. Fung., p. 603. 1801. 

 ?C. canaliculata Fr. Obs. Myc. 2: 294. 1818. (Not C. can- 



aliculata Ehrenb.). 

 C. vermicularis Fr. Syst. Myc. 1 : 484. 1821. 

 C. alba Pers. Myc. Europ. 1 : 175. 1822. (Not C. alba Pers. 



ibid., p. 161). 

 C. pistilliforma Pers. Myc. Europ. 1 : 183. 1822. 

 ?C. corynoides Pk. Rept. N. Y. St. Mus. 31 : 39. 1879. 

 C.nivca Quel. Asso. Franchise, p. 3, pi. 3, fig. 11. 1901. 

 (22nd. supplement to Champ. Jura, etc.). 



Plates 5, 6, and 82 



Plants gregarious in clusters of two or three to a dozen, or, in 

 the typical vermiculata form, to many; often a good many single 

 individuals scattered among the clusters; bases when clustered 

 fused or only approximate, depending on the density of the clus- 

 ters; 1-6 cm. high (usually about 3-4.5 cm.), rarely reaching a 

 height of 9 cm. in stout forms in woods (as Burnham, No. 11) ; 

 1.5-2.5 mm. thick at thickest point which is at or above the middle, 

 or when flattened sometimes as much as 4.7 mm. wide, tapering 

 slightly downward and more rapidly at the base which is decidedly 

 smaller, and which when looked down on from above is distinctly 

 marked oft" from the hymenium by its much more watery and 

 translucent appearance; not conspicuously mycelioid at the foot, 

 the apex blunt; usually simple but not rarely with the apex 

 grooved or knobbed or with an antler-like branch at any point 

 (very rarely with several flattened branches) ; typically curved 

 at base, the club straight or wavy and often channeled or with 

 longitudinal wrinkles (not closely and regularly furrowed as in 

 C. nigrita and C. appalachicnsis) ; color pure watery white when 

 young and fresh, but nearly always becoming tinted with light 

 citron yellow at the tip and often with pale creamy flesh color be- 

 low; in drying all parts become buff color. Flesh very delicate 

 and brittle, snapping with a clean break at less than 45° of bend- 

 ing, solid or rarely hollow; almost tasteless, odor none. Hyphae 



