182 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



Illustrations : Cooke. Handb. Brit. Fungi 1 : fig. 88. 

 Gillet. Champ. Fr. 5 : pi. 98. 1897. Good. 

 Greville. Scott. Crypt. Flora 2: pi. 117. 1824. 

 Hard. Mushrooms, fig. 390. 1908. 

 Patouillard. Tab. Fung., fig. 566. 1887. 

 Swanton. Fungi and How to Know Them. pi. 29, fig. 4. 1909. 



North Carolina : Salem. "Ad terram lignosam non f requens." Schweinitz. 

 (Curtis Herb.). The small fragments show little except the spores, 

 which are 4-4.5 x 7.4-8.5/*. 



Tennessee: Unaka Springs. "Mixed woods, evergreens predominating." 

 Murrill. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., as C. flaccida). Spores 3.4-3.7 x 5-7.4/1. 



New York: Vaughns. Coker and Burnham, No. 110. Under hemlocks, 

 September 2, 1917. Olive yellow, deep olive green when bruised ; about 

 2-3.5 cm. high and 1.5-3 cm. broad. C. & B. No. 132. Under hem- 

 locks, same date as No. 110. (U. N. C. Herb.). 

 Adirondacks. Murrill. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). Dried plants show 

 olive tints. 



Missouri: St. Louis. "Wooded hills, not common." Glatfelter. (Albany 

 Herb.). Dusky and olivaceous stains. 



Colorado: Jack Brook. Clements. (Path, and Myc. Herb., as C. abietina 

 minor). Plants small, about 1-1.5 cm. high. Spores 3.7-4.1x7.4-7.8/*. 



Utah: Brighton, in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Miss Barrows, 1920. (U. 



N. C. Herb, and N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.) . Dried plants greenish ; spores 



dark, papillate, 3.8-5.3 x 8-10.6/*. 

 Washington: Seattle. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb, from Young Naturalists' 



Soc. Herb., No. 195). 

 Canada: Macoun. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). Spores 3.5-4 x 7-7.5/*. 



Clavaria abietina. Non-vircsccnt form of pines. 



?C. corrngata Karst. Nat. Fauna et Flora Fenn., p. 371. 1868. 



Plates 69 and 89 



Plants 2.5-8 cm. high, gregarious in large numbers, cespitose 

 with the stems more or less fused, single individuals about 1.5-2 

 cm. broad above, usually in clumps of 2-4; stem distinct, about 

 1.5-2 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick, the base enlarged and incrassated 

 by the creamy, flocculent mycelium which may ascend the 

 stem more or less and which binds together a mass of pine needles 

 as well as adjacent plants; main branches rather few, dividing 

 irregularly about twice into compacted divisions which end in 

 several rather sharply pointed teeth ; color yellowish cinnamon, the 

 stem a darker brownish cinnamon or in youth nearly concolorous, 



