92 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



Clavaria pyxidata Pers. Comm., p. 47 (179). 1797. 



C. coronata Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II, 4: 182. 1832. 

 ?C. chondroidcs Berk. London Journ. Bot. 1 : 140, pi. 6, fig. 



3. 1842. 

 C. Petersii B. & C. Grevillea 2 : 7. 1873. 

 C. javanica Sacc. & Syd. Syll. Fung. 14: 238. 1890. (C. 

 coronata Zipp. in Lev. Ann. Sci. Nat., 3rd. Ser., 2: 215. 

 1844.) 



Plates 26, 27, and 84 



Plants up to 12 cm. high, often small, springing in clumps 

 from an amorphous base which may enter the wood or may form 

 a resupinate mass on the surface of the wood, these masses vary- 

 ing in extent from 1 to several cm.; main stem slender, 1.5-2.5 

 mm. thick, densely coated at base (if it is at all protected) with a 

 dense, rather long, whitish or brownish pink pubescence, which 

 also covers the entire resupinate mass when present ; stems round 

 or flattened and channelled, enlarging upward and dividing si- 

 multaneously like an umbel into several branches which spread out 

 rather strongly and then turn up again ; primary branches expand- 

 ing suddenly at their tips into little cups from the margins of 

 which spring the branchlets of the third degree ; these may again 

 end in cups with similar branches which finally terminate in small- 

 er cups with little teeth on the rims. Color of all parts when 

 young and fresh a rather light clear yellow, about baryta yellow 

 of Ridgway (or varying to a soaked straw-color), which in age or 

 on drying or bruising becomes a dull ochraceous, beginning at the 

 tips. Sometimes certain parts become pallid pinkish before be- 

 coming ochraceous. Flesh quite pliable and not at all brittle, 

 tough and very peppery to the taste, as a rule, but varying to 

 nearly mild (rarely). 



Spores (of No. 1875) pure white, smooth, ovate to pip-shaped, 

 about 2.3x4|a. Basidia (of No. 3593) 4-spored, 3.7-4.4^ thick, 

 very inconspicuous; hymenium about 26^ thick, set with a few 

 small crystals and with many cystidia of two kinds: one kind is 

 fusiform, pointed, hyaline, and almost empty; the other is cylin- 

 drical with rounded tips and dense contents, resembling some- 

 what a gleocystidium. Both kinds project several microns beyond 

 the basidia. Hyphae parallel, 3.7^ thick just under the hymenium, 

 up to \2[k thick and much intertwined in center. Clamp connec- 

 tions present. 



