Clavarias of the United States and Canada 131 



West Park. Earle. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). Spores rough, broadly 



elliptic, 4.4-5.9x8.2-10/*. 

 Horicon. Peck. (Albany Herb.). 



Alcove. Shear. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., as C. densa, No. 118 of N. Y. 

 Fungi) . Spores 3.5-4.4 x 8-9/t. 



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



Canada: Ontario. Dearness. (U. N. C. Herb.). Spores rough, 4-5.3 x 

 9.3-12.2/*. Basidia 8-9.3 M thick, 2-4-spored. 



Clavaria conjunctipes n. sp. 



Plates 43 and 91 



Cespitose in gregarious clusters and arising in crowded 

 clumps and rows from deep in the mold; up to 7 cm. high, their 

 bases very slender, string-like, crowded and attached to ropy 

 white strands which have branched to form them and which dif- 

 fuse into the mold; bases of each clump touching but not fused, 

 white where protected, branched several times upward, mostly 

 dichotomously, with acute angles, into rather few branches which 

 when young and very fresh are a beautiful saffron (yellow-sal- 

 mon), the tips rather abruptly a delicate lemon yellow; after ma- 

 turity the color fading to cinnamon-buff throughout except for the 

 white base; surface smooth and even or varying to pitted and 

 rugose (as in No. 5768). Flesh concolorous, flexible and firm, 

 cracking only when bent on self ; tasteless and odorless. 



Spores short-elliptic, smooth (to very minutely rough?), pale 

 yellow in a light print and under the microscope, 4-4.5 x 7.4-8. 5[a. 



A remarkable plant, with its crowded, slender stems arising 

 from deeply seated bases. The stems are only 1.5-2.5 mm. thick 

 at the surface, not at all or scarcely thicker than the branches, and 

 taper downward to slender strands. They may or may not branch 

 below ground as well as above it. 



The species is one of the most beautiful of all Clavarias, the 

 colors approaching very near to those of the most perfect plants of 

 C. formosa. It is easily different from anything else we have 

 seen, being separated from C. formosa by the quite different spores, 

 much more slender and usually more numerous stems of a cluster, 

 toughish texture, and very different behavior in drying, the 

 plants then becoming shrunken and wrinkled with the flesh not at 

 all chalky or friable. The slender, crowded, deeply rooting stems 



