86 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



New York: Tripoli. Burnham, No. 15. (U. N. C. Herb.). 



Vaughns. Burnham, No. 68. Spores smooth, elliptic, 3.8-5.5 x 8-11. 8/x. 



B. No. 71. Spores large, 5.5-7x9.3-12.5^. C. and B. No. 139. In 

 frondose woods, September 2, 1917. (All in U. N. C. Herb.). 



Connecticut: Redding. Coker, No. 27. (U. N. C. Herb.). 



Clavaria ligula Schaeff. Fung. Bavar., p. 116, pi. 171. 1763. 



C. caespitosa Wulfen in Jacq. Misc. 2: 98, pi. 12, fig. 2. 1781. 

 C. pulvinata Pers. Comm., p. 65. 1797. 



C. luteola Pers. Comm., p. 66. 1797. 



Plates 28 and 84 



Plants about 2-7 cm. high and 3-12 mm. thick above, simple, 

 single or at times two or three fused at base, long-clavif orm, thick- 

 ened upward and there crumpled and channelled and often flat- 

 tened; obtuse or less often pointed or even cuspidate; the bases 

 scurfy-villose nearly or quite up to the hymenium; color when 

 fresh (in plants we have seen) dull pink, soon fading to leather 

 color or with tints of fawn or burr added, the base white and ex- 

 panding into the mycelium ; not rooted. Flesh soft, white, pliable 

 when fresh, very brittle and friable when dry. 



Spores (collection from Adirondacks, New York Botanical 

 Garden Herbarium) white, smooth, subelliptic, 4.5-5 x 15-18.5[x. 

 Basidia 7-8.5[x thick, 4-spored; hymenium about 74\). thick, and 

 containing many brownish granules ; hyphae of context about 4.4^. 

 thick, much twisted, without clamp connections. 



Always growing on coniferous leaves or trash and apparently 

 not rare in the northern states. Not yet reported from the south. 



Juel (cited under C. cristata) finds two transverse nuclear 

 divisions near the basidium tip which is 4-spored, the spores elong- 

 ated, smooth, uninucleate. Three or four chromosomes were ob- 

 served in the spindles (pi. 3, figs. 70-74). 



Illustrations: Clements. Minnesota Mushrooms, fig. 75. 1910. 

 Dufour. Atlas Champ., pi. 69. 1891. 

 Flora Danica, pi. 837, fig. 1. 1780. 

 Krombholz. Abbild., pi. 54, fig. 12. 1841. 

 Lanzi. Funghi Mang., pi. 12, fig. 1. 1897. 

 Michael. Fiihrer f. Pilzfreunde, Vol. 2, No. 21. 1901. 



