80 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



Clavaria muscoides L. Flora Suecica, 2nd ed., p. 457. 1755. 

 C. fastigiata L. Flora Suecica, 2nd. ed., p. 457. 1755. 

 C. corniculata Schaeff. Fung. Bavar., pi. 173. 1763. 

 C. praiensis Pers. Comm., p. 52 (183). 1797. 

 C. furcata Pers. Comm., p. 52. 1797. 

 C. vitellina Pers. Myc. Europ. 1 : 170. 1822. 

 C. similis Pk. Rept. N. Y. St. Mus. 43 : 24 (70) . 1890. (Not 



C. similis Boud. & Pat. ) . 

 C.Peckii Sacc. Syll. Fung. 9: 249. 1891. (Not C. Peckii 



Sacc. & D. Sacc). 

 C. helveola var. dispar Pers. Myc. Europ. 1 : 181. 1822. 

 C. fellea Pk. Rept. N. Y. St. Mus. 51 : 292. 1898. 

 C. muscoides var. obtusata Britz. Hymen. Siidb., Clavariei, 



fig. 45. 1879-97. 

 C. muscoides var. obtusa Pk. Rept. N. Y. St. Mus. 47: 151 



(25 inBot. ed.). 1894. 

 C. straminea Cotton. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. 3: 265, pi. 11, 



fig. D. 1909-10. 



Plates 9, 21, and 83 



Plants small, 2-5 cm. high, slender, quite variable in form, 

 from simple and single to clustered and fused at base and several 

 times branched above, terete or channelled, stem distinct, usually 

 long, branches none or a few knobs to several or many (usually 

 a few near the top), the angles open; tips bluntish; color varying 

 from rather pale dull yellow to deep clear yellow or ochraceous 

 yellow, shading downward to darker brown, the base white-scurfy 

 and more or less rooting and, when clustered, fused below; in 

 drying unchanging or becoming a light leather color. Flesh mod- 

 erately brittle, breaking at 45°, taste rank, farinaceous and bitter. 



Spores (of one of our collections from Lake George, N. Y.) 

 white, smooth, spherical, with an abrupt mucro, 5-7.5jx. Basidia 

 about 7-10[j. thick, with 4 curved sterigmata which are about 7.5[x 

 long; among the basidia are also found delicate hyphae with tips 

 a little swollen. 



Not rare in deciduous woods or pastures in humus or moss 

 from the mountains of this state northward, and we have found it 

 once in Chapel Hill. Schweinitz and Curtis also record it from 

 North Carolina. We have seen no collections from the southern 



