102 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



Miss Hibbard has kindly sent us her notes on the fresh con- 

 dition of the plants collected in 1920, which are as follows: 



"When growing the color is pure white, almost translucent, 

 fragile, tips when young cuspidate, when older the rounded tips 

 prolong and become pitchfork shape. Dichotomous forking. As 

 the moisture dries out the color becomes a pale cream white and 

 looks more opaque. On some the bruises have turned a pale 

 brownish lavender, or lavender-brown, a tint combining both col- 

 ors, and as one glances across the tips in certain lights there is a 

 hint of the same color. Does not bruise easily. I make the taste 

 to be tardily and slightly acrid but not peppery. 



"The stem of all specimens are not subcaespitose but show a 

 very shallow trunk with the first branches creased to the base 

 when not divided. Tomentose at base. Base sometimes stained 

 brown by the earth." 



Illustration : Burt. Ann. Mo. Bot. Card. 9 : pi. 6, fig. 39. 1922. 



Massachusetts: Ellis. Miss Hibbard. (Albany Herb., type). Also speci- 

 mens (U. N. C. and N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.) from the type locality. 



Vermont: Newfane. Miss Hibbard. (U. N. C. Herb.). Spores sub- 

 spherical, broader at mucro end, distinctly short-spinulose, 3.5-4.2 x4-6jn. 



Clavaria lentofragilis Atk. Ann. Myc. 6: 57. 1908. 



Plate 84 



This is known only from the type, which we have examined at 

 Ithaca. It is a large plant with a distinct stalk and a vast number 

 of slender tips. It has the general appearance of C. stricta. At- 

 kinson's description follows : 



"Plants 15 cm. high, tufts 12 cm. broad; trunks 2-4 cm. long 

 by 2-3 cm. thick, dividing into several short branches which are 

 repeatedly dichotomously branched, axils slightly rounded; tips 

 short, conic. Trunk gray, branches white, tips soft and fragile. 

 Spores white, oval to subglobose, asperulate, 4-6[/. in diameter. 

 Taste and odor not marked." 



Illustration: Burt. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 9: pi. 7, fig. 54. 1922. 



New York : Long Island. On very rotten wood in spbagnum swamp. 

 Atkinson. (Cornell Herb., type, No. 20242). 



