32 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



ing from small, circular, white mycelium. No. 974 is once forked 

 and narrow. On wet-rotting stumps." It was described from 

 South Carolina (Ravenel, No. 974). 



Illustrations : Atkinson. Stud. Am. Fungi, fig. 193. 

 Coker. As cited above. 

 Hard. Mushrooms, fig. 398. 1908. 



Persoon. Comm., pi. 2, fig. 3. 1797. Photographic copy by Burt in Ann. 

 Mo. Bot. Gard. 9 : pi. 9, fig. 77. 1922. 



North Carolina : Chapel Hill. No. 38a. On a decorticated wet log, October 

 8, 1908. No. 3579. On a soggy, decorticated, gum log, November 2, 

 1919. No. 3886. On a blackgum log in Strowd's lowgrounds, December 

 13, 1919. 

 Wilmington. (Curtis Herb.). 

 Salem. (Schweinitz Herb, and Curtis Herb.). 



South Carolina: Hartsville. Coker, No. 5841. On deciduous log in swamp, 

 August 31, 1922. (U. N. C. Herb.). 

 Society Hill. (Curtis Herb.). 



New Jersey: Newfield. Ellis. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., N. Am. Fungi, 

 No. 332). 



Pennsylvania: Lehigh Valley. Herbst. (Schweinitz Herb.). 



New York: Lake Placid. Mrs. Britton. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



Massachusetts: Pittsfield. Pierson. (N .Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, and U. N. C. 

 Herb.). 



Ohio: Rendville. Kellerman. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



Indiana: Fern, Putnam Co. Underwood. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



Canada: Macoun. (Albany Herb.). 



Clavaria luteo-ochracea Cavara. Fungi Long. Exs., No. 64. 

 1892. 



Plates 1 and 91 



Plants single, gregarious, 0.6-1.3 cm. tall (up to 2.5 cm. in 

 Burnham, No. 39), gradually tapering downward, openly forked 

 above once or twice like antlers, and flattened there, or more 

 rarely simple clubs; surface above glabrous, at base more or less 

 distinctly scurfy-hairy (up to % way up), the basal hairs at times 

 longer than the diameter of the plant; color pale creamy to pale 

 citric yellow, some pale lemon yellow below. Texture toughish- 

 fleshy, only cracking when bent on self ; odor distinct and bad, a 

 little like a stink horn, taste none. Stem not discrete from the 

 hymenium. The dried plants are blackish upward, reddish car- 

 tilaginous downward, tough, not brittle. 



