150 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



North Carolina: Chapel Hill. No. 2897. In pine and frondose woods, 

 south of athletic field, October 8, 1917. No. 2927. Same woods as 

 No. 2897, October 18, 1917. Spores smooth, 5.5-6.3 x 14-17/*. 



Clavaria secunda Berk. Grevillea 2 : 7. 1873. 



C. crassipes Pk. Bull. N. Y. St. Mus. 67: 27. 1903. 

 C. pallida Schaeff. Fung. Bavar., pi. 286. 1770. (Sense of 

 Bres. Not C. pallida B. & C). 



Plates 57 and 85 



Plants medium to large, stem distinct, usually short (about 

 2-3.5 cm. long), stout to very stout, up to 4 cm. thick, soft, white, 

 glabrous, and usually very smooth and terete, main branches 

 numerous, rather small, arising in an open fashion from the top 

 of the broad stem, smooth (not rugose), branching a few times 

 and ending in blunt or rather sharp tips. Color pale creamy tan, 

 with a faint flesh tint, except the white stem, which may be more 

 or less stained with this color ; tips concolorous, in fading becom- 

 ing soaked reddish ochraceous. Flesh pure white, fibrous and 

 soft, spongy, not brittle, taste quite mild, distinctly sweetish ; 

 odor sweetish medicinal and a little rancid, rather pleasant and 

 fainty like old ham. 



Spores (of No. 2876) ochraceous buff, elliptic, smooth, 

 1-4.4 x 8.5-1 1.4[x, most about 4.3 x 9.3a. 



This is most like C. obtiisissima in color and general appear- 

 ance, but is distinctly different in the thicker, more discrete, more 

 glabrous and very soft stem, which does not taper much down- 

 ward but is rounded below and not much rooted ; in the sweetish, 

 mild taste, and in the shorter spores, which are never sway- 

 backed. The stem is nearly always set with a good many short, 

 projecting points, representing very much reduced branches, as 

 shown in the photos. 



The co-type in the Curtis Herbarium ( Hillsboro, N. C, No. 

 534) has spores of the same characteristic shape and size. 4.5-5.5 x 

 10-12.2[j.. The collection at Kew ( Ravenel, No. 991, Santee River, 

 S. C. ), also referred to in the original description, shows few 

 spores but these seem to be like those of our No. 2876. 



Our plants are like Peck's types of C. crassipes and the 

 spores are identical, smooth or nearly so, 4-5.5 x 10-12[jl. In a 

 later collection by Peck (1916) they are smooth, 4-4.5 x 8.6-1 lp; 



