40 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



North Carolina: Chapel Hill. No. 2285. Woods near Howell's branch, 

 June 28, 1916. Stuffed when young, hollow in age, the simple blunt tips 

 abruptly brick color ; spores 2.9-3.3 x 6-6.7/*. No. 2433. In short grass 

 and moss in Dr. Mangum's lawn, July 27, 1916. Spores with a small 

 eccentric mucro, the distal end often narrowed, 2.5-3.6 x 5.6-7/*. No. 

 2654. Low damp woods, July 12, 1917. Color rather light egg-yellow. 

 Spores 3.7-4 x 5.5-6.7/*. No. 2755. In mossy grass, July 24, 1917. No. 

 2770. Same spot as No. 2433, July 23. 1917. Spores 2.5-3.7x6.2-8/*. 

 No. 2774. Same place as No. 2433, July 26, 1917- No. 2788. Under 

 spireas, bare earth, July 27, 1917. Just like the typical C. hclvcola ex- 

 cept in color, which is pale creamy flesh color (very pale apricot) when 

 quite fresh with the tips soon ochraceous and then reddish. Spores 

 2.5-3.3 x 4.8-5.9/*. This form may be what is called C. incamata Weinm. 

 Nos. 2793 and 2805. In same place as No. 2433, July 28, and 29, 1917. 

 No. 2818. Same spot as No. 2788, August 1, 1917. Color as in No. 

 2788. Spores as in usual form, 2.3-3 x 6-7/*. No. 4368. Damp ravine 

 near iron spring, f rondose woods, July 4, 1920. As usual in color, etc. ; 

 taste rather rank and somewhat like tallow; spores (print) 3.7-4 x 

 7.5-8.2/*. 

 Blowing Rock. Coker and party. No. 5571. (U. N. C. Herb.). Orange 

 form. Spores 3-3.7 x 5-7/*. 



South Carolina : Hartsville. Coker, No. 18. September. 1916. (U. N. C. 



Herb.). Taste rather musky, not pleasant, odor none. Spores white, 



smooth, 2.5-3 x 6.6-7/*. 

 New York: Hudson Falls. Burnham, No. 6. (U. N. C. Herb.). Among 



moss on ground, July 23, 1917. BufTy yellow with a faint tint of flesh 



color, brittle; flesh colored like the surface, taste of tallow. Spores 



elliptic to pip-shaped, 3.7-4 x 6.3-7.4/*- 



Clavaria rosea Dalm. in Swartz. Acta Holm., p. 157. 1811. 

 ?C. rubella Pers. Comm., p. 81 (213) 1797. (Not C. rubella 



Schaeff.) 

 C. Szvartzii Dalm. Svensk Botanik, pi. 558. 1818. 



Plate 81 



Plants cespitose or single, about 1.5-3 cm. high and varying 

 from slender to stouter (1-2.5 mm. thick in dried state) and from 

 quite simple to flattened and toothed at the end like a cock's comb; 

 color when fresh "a beautiful pink" (Burnham), when dry a dull 

 reddish ochraceous; spores hyaline, smooth, rod-elliptic, 3.5 ^6.6- 

 7.5[j.. Basidia 7(j. thick with 4 short, delicate sterigmata. Hyphae 

 ll(x thick, without clamp connections. 



Clavaria rosea is at present in an unsatisfactory state. Plants 

 so labelled in herbaria are not alike, and the species is not repre- 



