Clavarias of the United States and Canada 161 



Kentucky: Bowling Green. Price. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). Spores 

 roughish, 4-4.6 x 7.3-8.3/*. 



New Jersey : Schweinitz. (Schw. Herb.). 



New York : Botanical Garden, New York City. On hemlock leaves and a 

 hemlock stump, September 6, 1919. Coker. (U. N. C. Herb.). Plants 

 exactly like those from Chapel Hill, reddish leather color downwards, 

 pale leather tan above, in age darkening upwards. Taste only slightly 

 bitter; odor none. Hymenium 3 or 4 layers thick, with many embedded 

 spores. 



Ithaca. Atkinson. (Albany Herb.). Spores about 4 x 7. 5/*. 



Sand Lake. (Albany Herb.). 



Farmington. Ellis. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). Spores roughish. 

 4.8-5.3 x 7.5-8/*. 



Vaughns. Burnham, No. 114. On an old pine stump pile, August 20, 

 1919. Bitter taste. Spores minutely rough, 3.7-4 x 7.4-9.3/*. 



Numerous other collections in Albany Herb, from various places in New 

 York State. 



Washington: North Bend. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). In damp coniferous 

 woods. Spores elliptic, minutely roughened, 3.5 x 7-8.5/*. 



Clavaria pinicola Burt. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 9 : 25, pi. 5, fig. 

 32. 1922. 



Plate 91 



We have studied material from the type collection (No. 16946) 

 kindly sent us by Dr. Weir, and find the spores as described, 

 smooth, short-elliptic, 4.2-5.5 x 7.5-lOji.. Hymenium about 50-60[/. 

 thick, containing many embedded spores and therefore deep brown. 

 Basidia 7.5-8[j. thick, with 4 straight sterigmata. Flesh tough; 

 threads of flesh 3.5-6.5jj. thick, in places having rather thick walls; 

 no clamp connections seen. It is a western form of C. apiculata, 

 (which often has smooth spores among the roughened ones,) and 

 is hardly of varietal rank. Another collection from the same 

 place (Weir, No. 16955) determined by Burt as C. apiculata has 

 the same appearance and similar spores, smooth or nearly so, 

 4.2-5.5 x 7.8-1 ljx. Hymenium obscurely 2-layered, containing 

 embedded spores. 



Burt's description of C. pinicola follows : 



"Fructifications rarely solitary, usually in clusters of 2-6 from 

 a common white mycelium, slender, of rather uniform diameter 



