96 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



Burnham and Allen, notes that the plant turns pinkish at base 

 when rubbed or on exposure. We have not noted this. The color 

 may soon become less pure white, sordid, or yellowish as fading or 

 drying begins. 



This is a well marked species distinguished by small size, white 

 color, delicate habit, usually scurfy-tomentose stem and areas, 

 tenacious substance, and very small, subspherical spores. Aside 

 from its near relatives, C. subcaespitosa and C. angulispora, which 

 see for comparison, the species is superficially most like C. gracilis 

 from which it differs in the white color, tomentose areas, lack of 

 odor, shorter spores, preference for deciduous woods and absence 

 of stringy mycelium. 



Clavaria Kanzei has been variously interpreted by European 

 authors, and has been badly confused. The difficulties were indi- 

 cated when Krombholz figured a plant as C. Kunzei (Abbild., pi. 

 53, figs. 14-17. 1841) which Fries denied as that species and re- 

 ferred to as illustrating a new species which he called C. Kromb- 

 holzii (Epicr., p. 572. 1838). It is evident that Krombholz's 

 plates (pi. 53, figs. 15 and 16; pi. 54, figs. 18-20) were issued be- 

 fore the text (1841) or that Fries had seen the drawings before 

 they were published. Krombholz refers in the text (heft 7, p. 

 20) to Fries's new name C. Krombholzii as a synonym of C. Kun- 

 zei, but from the former's good figures we have little doubt that 

 his species is a coarse, non-cristate form of C. cristata, as repre- 

 sented by our Nos. 2702 and 2746. 



Quelet describes C. Ktmzci (Champ, du Jura, etc., pt. 3, p. 16, 

 pi. 2, fig. 11. 1875) as sub-hyaline, snow white (citrine on drying), 

 inodorous; spores oblong, white, etc. The figure looks like our 

 plant, but judging from the figure and description of the spores, 

 they are quite different (no dimensions given). Britzelmayr 

 (Hymen., p. 287, Clavariei, fig. 12) describes and figures a very 

 different plant from Quelet's with spores subspherical, 9-12 x 8[/. 

 (apparently a form of C. cristata). In another place (Hymen., 

 pt. 10, p. 179) he gives the spores as colorless with a yellowish 

 nucleus, 9-10 x 8[x. Saccardo's note "spores globose, 9-12 x 8[x, 

 hyaline," was probably taken from Britzelmayr, and is incorrect. 

 That Schweinitz followed Krombholz in his conception of C. 

 Ktmzci is shown by a collection in his herbarium which is C. 



