146 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



New York: Bolton. Peck. (Albany Herb.). 



Albany and Lebanon Springs. Peck and Clinton. (Albany Herb.). 

 Spores 4.5 x 11/*,. 



Clavaria testaceoflava var. testaceoviridis Atk. Ann. Myc. 6: 

 58. 1908. 



This plant is known only from Blowing Rock. We have not 

 been able to find the type. The original description by Atkinson 

 is as follows : 



"Plants clustered, extreme bases slightly joined; tufts 4-5 cm. 

 high, 3-4 cm. broad; trunks short, 1-2 cm. high, 4-6 mm. stout, 

 above abruptly branched, terminal branches somewhat enlarged 

 and pluridentate ; trunks and branches pale drab, tips olive green 

 when fresh; spores oblong, roughened, 10-12 x4\u." 



Clavaria testaceoflava Bres. (Fungi Trid. 1 : 61, pi. 69. 1884) is 

 like the above except that the tips are yellow, the rest cinnamon 

 brown. Spores yellow, elongated, 4-5 x 10-14(x, roughness not 

 mentioned or shown, but we find from authentic plants in the 

 Bresadola Herbarium that the spores are slightly rough 

 (3.8-5 x 11- I4.8\u). Occurs in Alpine fir woods. The rather 

 small size, enlarged or expanded pluridentate or somewhat 

 crested yellowish tips (greenish in Atkinson's variety) mark the 

 species. 



Illustration: Burt. Ann. Mo. Bot. Card. 9: pi. 3, fig. 17. 1922. 



North Carolina : Blowing Rock. On ground in woods, August 19-Septem- 

 ber 22, 1901. A. B. Troyer. (Cornell Herb., type, No. 10593. Not seen 

 by us.) 



Clavaria obtusissima Pk. Bull. N. Y. St. Mus. 167: 39. 1913. 

 C. albida Pk. Rept. N. Y. St. Mus. 41 : 79. 1887. ( Not C. 



albida Schaeff. ) 

 C. obtusissima var. minor Pk. Bull. N. Y. St. Mus. 167: 34. 



1913. 

 C.spinulosa Pers. Obs. Myc. 2: 59, pi. 3, fig. 1. 1799. 



( Sense of Schw. ) . 



Plates 56 and 87 



Plants large, often 13 cm. high and of equal width, base 

 massive, tapering downward to a rather deep root, the stout main 



