160 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



Karsten says it grows on mossy pine wood. Bresadola determines 

 a plant from Rick (Holland) as C. virgata which is really a form 

 of C. cristata ("Plant cinereous, stem cinereo-ochraceous. Spores 



9-10x7-8^"). 



Fries (Hymen. Europ., p. 673) gives C. ochraceo-virens Jung- 



huhn (Linnaea 5 : 407, pi. 7, fig. 3. 1830) as a form ( ?) of C. apicit- 



lata. It is very green except the ochraceous base, and looks to us 



more like C. abietina. 



Bresadola thinks (Ann. Myc. 1 : 112. 1903) that C. hucotephra 



(see p. 162) is the same as C. byssiseda, L. Micheneri and C. fra- 



grans, and plants sent him from America which are like our C. 



apiculata have been given these names by him. We think he is 



right in his conception of C. byssiseda but wrong in thinking the 



others the same. From the appearance in the dried state and from 



the spores, C. dendroidea R. Fries seems most nearly related to 



C, apiculata. The abruptly pale tips and the quite smooth, slightly 



larger spores distinguish the former (pi. 91, fig. 21). Clavaria 



Karstenii Sacc. (Syll. 14: 238, changed from Clavariella divari- 



cata Karst.) should be compared with this and C. stricta. 



Illustrations: Burt. Ann. Mo. Bot Gard. 9: pi. 5, fig. 31 (as C. Tsugina). 

 1922. 

 Junghuhn. Linnaea 5 : pi. 7, fig. 3. 1830. 



North Carolina : Chapel Hill. No. 338. From outer bark at base of pine 

 tree in Battle's Park, October 1, 1908. No. 804. Through the rotting 

 bark at base of small cedar stump, September 21, 1913. No. 2802. On 

 base of rotten pine stump and buried wood, July 28, 1919. Hymenium 

 multiple and retaining embedded spores. No. 2962. On pine wood near 

 Strowd's pasture, December 5, 1917. A very small specimen with 

 spreading tips. Spores 3.7-4.2x6.6-9.4^. No. 2939. On a pine stump, 

 October 18, 1917. Spores 3.8-4.5x7.5-9.3^. Many other collections 

 with same appearance and spores. 



Pink Bed Valley. Murrill. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., July. 1908, as C. 

 pinophila) . 



Black Mountain, Yancey Co. Altitude 5700 ft., on rotten sap wood of 

 spruce, August 2, 1918. J. S. Holmes. ( U. N. C. Herb.). Spores 

 3.7-4.3x6.5-7.5/.. 



Alabama: Baker. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). No notes, but evidently 

 growing on rotting leaves under pines. Spores 3.7-4.2 x 7.6-9.8/x. 

 Auburn. Earle. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., 1900; also Earle and Baker, 

 1897). 



Tennessee: Unaka Springs. Murrill. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



