152 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



tips retaining some of the lavender-pink until maturity, then 

 darkening" at the very points to brown when fading; base and 

 stem whitish, but easily changing to wine color when handled, 

 and bruised flesh changing to this color at any point, as around 

 grub channels. Flesh firm and rigid-elastic when quite fresh, 

 soon pliable in fading, not brittle, pure white or with a faint tint 

 of surface color ; taste mild, faint, not bitter or krauty ; odor none 

 when quite fresh, but as soon as fading begins becoming very dis- 

 tinctly medicinal fragrant — much like cocoa butter of the phar- 

 macist (not like edible chocolate), and not like that of C. secunda 

 (No. 2876). The odor is moreover very persistent, and even 

 stronger in completely dry than in fading plants, and thus quite 

 different from the disappearing odor of C. secunda and other 

 species. After six years the fragrance is still quite obvious. 



Spores (of No. 2926) ochraceous, smooth, long and nar- 

 row, some sway-backed, 3.4 x 12.7-16.6p.. Basidia 4-spored, 

 5.9-9.3[x thick; hymenium 65-95[jl thick, with medium sized crys- 

 tals; threads of flesh very irregular, not parallel in longitudinal 

 section, 3-7. 7pi thick, clamp connections present. 



This species is much like C. rufesccns in shape, texture, and 

 in the vinaceous stains, but the color is otherwise not the same, as 

 the whole upper part is a faint lavender-pink, not the vinaceous 

 color of C. rufescens, which moreover is confined to the tips 

 and is much more vivid and contrasting ; also the upper part of C. 

 'Cacao does not darken much in fading, only the very tips becoming 

 dull brown, and the spores are without striations. The very 

 noticeable fragrance is the most distinctive character and sepa- 

 rates it from all others near, the odor of C. secunda being differ- 

 ent and the plant very different. Clavaria flava has like stains 

 on the stem, but is not otherwise similar. 



North Carolina: Chapel Hill. No. 2926. On ground in woods (pine, oak 

 and dogwood), October 18, 1917. 



Clavaria byssiseda Pers. Obs. Myc. 1: 32. 1796. 

 C. pinophila Pk. Rept. N. Y. St. Mus. 35 : 136. 1884. 

 1 Clavaria epiphylla Schw. (herb. name. Not C. epiphylla Quel.). 



Plates 28, 59, 60, and 87 



Plants 1.5-5.6 cm. high, 0.5-4.5 cm. broad; stalk distinct, 3-4 

 mm. thick, 1-1.4 cm. long, distinctly rough or scurfy, nearly white, 



