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Bronx. Murrill and Volkert. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). This is the 

 largest specimen we have seen, and is very much branched ; dried plant 

 5 cm. broad. Spores subspherical, smooth, 4-5 x 5-5. 5/u. 



Catskill Mts. Gereshoy. (U. N. C. Herb.). 

 Connecticut: Belleville. Macoun. (U. N. C. Herb.). 



West Goshen. Underwood. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, and U. N. C. Herb.). 



Redding. Coker. (U. N. C. Herb.). 



New Hampshire : Meredith. Miss Hibbard, No. 8. (U. N. C. Herb. ). 



Clavaria pistillaris L. Flora Suecica, 2nd. ed., p. 456. 1775. 

 Craterellus pistillarisFv. Epicr., p. 534. 1838. 

 Craterellus unicolor Berk. & Rav. Grevillea 1 : 148. 1873. 

 Craterellus corrugis Pk. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 26: 69. 1899. 

 Clavaria truncata Lovejoy. Bot. Gaz. 50: 385. 1910. 



Plates 22, 23, and 83 



Plants very variable in form and size, up to 20 cm. long, 

 typically long-pestle-shaped, the thick tip as a rule rugose-chan- 

 nelled, the center often flattened or even depressed and at times 

 perforated into a central hollow after maturity; tapering down- 

 ward to a small encrusted base which when growing among loose 

 leaves and twigs may penetrate them for some distance ; not rooted 

 when growing on earth ; commonly single, again growing in clus- 

 ters with connate bases, as shown by the form represented in plate 

 23, where the tips were in several cases flattened and forked like 

 an antler and the young plants sharply pointed and rosy ; color at 

 maturity ochraceous or leather color or discolored to darker (at 

 times chocolate, Mcllvaine). Flesh white, tender, soft, dryish, 

 often collapsing irregularly in age so as to form a hollow; taste 

 pleasant but mildly bitter-peppery ; odor none. 



Spores (No. 27 of Redding, Conn.) variable in size, pure 

 white, smooth, elliptic, with mucro end often curved, 3.7-4.5 x 

 7.4- 10f/.; in a typical New York plant from the Albany Herbarium 

 they were 5.5-7 x 10-11. 5[x. Basidia 6.8-7.7^ thick; hymenium 

 about 65 [j. thick, covering the top as well as the sides of the plant; 

 hyphae of context about 4.8|/. thick, with clamp connections. 



Edible and very good. Not rare in the northern states, less 

 common in the south except in the mountains. At Chapel Hill we 

 have never found very large plants, but that is not surprising as 

 we are near the coastward limit of the species in the southern 

 states. Most of our plants represent Craterellus unicolor (and 



