132 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



separate the species from all colored Clavarias. The form and 

 habit is most like that of C. cineroides and C. subcaespitosa. 



North Carolina : Linville Falls. Coker and party, No. 5732. On rich ground 

 in deciduous woods, August 24, 1922. (Type). No. 5734. Same lo- 

 cality and date as above. Plants fully mature ; color cinnamon-buff. 

 Spores somewhat flattened on one side, wall rather thick, 4.2-4.8 x 

 6.8-8.6/*. No. 5768. Same locality and date as above. Surface wrinkled 

 and pitted. Spores oblong, 4-4.8 x 6.5-8/*. 



Tennessee: Murrill. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., as C. tetragona, and U. N. 

 C. Herb.). Spores smooth, elliptic, 4.8-5 x 7-8/x. 



Connecticut : Redding. Coker, No. 36. Hemlock and frondose woods. 

 September 7, 1919. Spores 3.8-5 x 7.4-10/*. 



Clavaria conjunctipes var. odora n. var. 



Plates 53 and 86 



Plants 6-7 cm. high in this case with distinct long stalks 2.5-4 

 cm. long, with tapering bases, main branches few, smooth, branch- 

 ing two or three times and ending in several small cusps; color 

 light pinkish cream in the central region, the tips a light clear yel- 

 low in young plants, the stem pure white or nearly so. Flesh 

 only moderately brittle, watery white with pale pinkish tint except 

 in stem ; taste mild, not bitter, slightly fungoid ; odor faintly fra- 

 grant, medicinal, something like an old mowing machine (rancid 

 oil?) but more aromatic (lost in drying). 



Spores pale under a microscope (too few to make a print), 

 smooth, short-ovate with an eccentric or lateral mucro at the 

 larger end, 4.4-4.8 x 5.5-6.3^. 



In this collection (No. 2595) there were two distinct plants 

 which were grown together in the middle region. The plant is 

 remarkable in its clear color, pure light yellow above, clear creamy 

 pink in middle region, pure white below. The flesh is colored 

 like the surface except at the tips where it is not so yellow as the 

 surface. In drying the plant shrinks greatly and becomes car- 

 tilaginous-looking and not friable or very brittle. The variety 

 differs from the type in the thicker and less crowded stems and 

 in the odor. 



North Carolina: Chapel Hill. No. 2595. Earth in mixed woods, Battle's 

 Park, July 5, 1917. (Type). 



