Clavarias of the United States and Canada 37 



were the plants distributed by Ellis (N. Am. Fungi, No. 613) as 

 C. clavata Pk. 



At Kew is represented C. paludicola Libert (No. 322) which in 

 the dried state is so like C. vernalis as easily to pass for it. Un- 

 fortunately, however, our slide shows no spores that can be de- 

 termined with certainty. The little plants are less than a cm. 

 high, dark, the upper part thick and rugose, some of them tipped 

 with a paler, unshrunken cap. The description on the label is 

 (translation) : "Sparse, small, somewhat compressed, rugose, 

 thickened upward, yellow, drying orange." 



Illustration: Peck. Rept. N. Y. St. Mus. 25: pi. 1, fig. 9 (as C. clavata). 

 1873. 



North Carolina: Chapel Hill. No. 6071. With algae and moss protonema 

 on a clay bank near Forest Theatre, March 24 and 27, 1923. 

 Wilmington. No. 5962. On bank of branch on golf links, December 28, 

 1921. Spores narrow, bent-elliptic and pointed at mucro end, 2 x 8-9.7/x. 

 Threads of flesh 2.8-U/i thick. 



New Jersey: Newfield. Ellis. (N. Y. Bot. Card. Herb., as C. clavata). 

 New York: Sand Lake. Peck. (Albany Herb., as C. clavata). 



North Elba. Peck. (Albany Herb.). 



Lake Pleasant. Peck. (Albany Herb.). 







Massachusetts: Sharon. Piguet. (U. N. C. Herb, from Farlow Herb.). 



Clavaria helveola Pers. Comm., p. 69 (201). 1797. 

 C. helveola Pers. Myc. Europ. 1 : 180. 1822. 

 C. citrina Quelet. Bull. Soc. Bot. de France 23: 330, pi. 3, 



fig. 14. 1876. (Not. C. citrina Rafmesque). 

 ?C. luteo-alba Rea. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. 2 : 66, pi. 3, tig. B. 



1904. 



Plates 1, 4, and 81 



Plants cespitose in small groups (rarely over 12 in a group) 

 or often single ones in the same colony, simple or a little forked or 

 knobbed, or sometimes with an antler-like branch, length 1.5-5 

 cm., thickness 1-2.5 mm., nearly equal except for the short con- 

 stricted stem which is more or less distinct ; club usually bent and 

 wavy and at times grooved and compressed, the tip blunt, often 

 shrinking to a point and becoming ochraceous, then reddish or 

 nearly black; color light buffy yellow with or without a faint 

 greenish tint and often with a tint of flesh color (apricot), ochra- 



