148 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



tinctly like old ham. Spores smooth, 3-4 x 11-14.5/x. No. 2909. Pine 

 and frondose woods, October 18, 1917. Odorless when quite fresh, 

 taste mild, slightly sweetish-acid; color light yellowish buff (about pale 

 orange yellow of Ridgw.), flesh pure white, firm and rather rigid, but 

 not very brittle ; tips fading late to dull then darker brown. Spores 

 3.2-3.7x8.7-12/1. No. 2919. Mixed woods south of athletic field, Oc- 

 tober 18, 1917. Spores 3.2-3.5 x 9. 3-11.3//,, very regular in size. No. 

 3200. In pine and oak leaves, mixed woods, October 7, 1918. Base 

 stout and distinct, usually with many little aborted branches on side. 

 Texture pliable, taste faintly bitterish sweet, odor slightly meaty in 

 drying, not strong of ham. Spores elliptic, nearly smooth, 3.8-5 x 

 10.5-13.5^. 



Alabama: Auburn. Earle. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., as C. sccunda). 

 Spores smooth, oblong-elliptic, 3.3-4 x 9.3-1 1.1/*. 



New York: Bolton. Peck. (Albany Herb., as type of C. obtusissima var. 

 minor). 



Monands and West Port. Peck. (Albany Herb., as types of C. albida). 



Vaughns. Burnham, No. 96a. Under hemlocks, August 19, 1917. (U. 

 N. C. Herb.). "Flesh colored when fresh." Spores smooth, 4-5 x 12-15/1. 



Massachusetts: West Roxbury. Miss Hibbard. (Albany Herb., as type of 

 C. obtusissima). 

 Stockbridge. Murrill and Thompson. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., as C. 



secunda). Spores smooth, 12-13/* long. 

 Stow. Davis. (Albany Herb., as C. obtusissima). 



Missouri: St. Louis. Glatfelter. (Albany Herb., as C. sccunda). Plant 

 "6-8 in. broad, 4-6 in. high." Spores 3.5-4.5 x 11-15/a. 



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Clavaria obtusissima. Form with rough spores. 



We have one collection that would pass for C. obtusissima 

 except for distinct roughness of spores. It may be distinct, but 

 without more specimens we prefer to consider it a rough-spored 

 form of this species. 



Plant 9 cm. tall to the pointed base, 3-6 cm. broad. Stem 

 thick, spongy, glabrous, white; branches rather open, pale creamy 

 tan, then creamy ochraceous; tips concolorous; texture moder- 

 ately brittle ; odor none, taste faintly sweetish. 



Spores ochraceous yellow, distinctly rough, subelliptic, 

 3.7-5.5 x 9.5-14.8[x, most about 4.5 x 12(x. 



North Carolina : Chapel Hill. No. 3792. Close to Strowd's spring, mixed 

 woods, November 22, 1919. 



