Clavarias of the United States and Canada 169 



particular, granting that his plants had reached the buffy yellow 

 color of full maturity. Clavaria Invalii from type locality de- 

 termined by Cotton is C. snecica. The plants are alike and so are 

 the spores, minutely rough, often pointed toward mucro end, 

 3.5-4.2 x 6-8[x. Cotton and Wakefield do not include C. suecica, 

 a species which is to be expected in England in a similar habitat. 



Illustrations: Britzelmayr. Hymen. Siidb., Clavariei, fig. 23. 

 Burt. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 9: pi. 5, fig. 33 (as C. circinans). 1922. 

 Mcllvaine. Am. Fungi., pi. 142 (as C. circinans). 1900. 

 Peck. As cited above (as C. circinans). 



Schaeffer. Fung. Bavar., pi. 177 (as C. rubella). 1763. Fries refers to 

 this (Syst. Myc. 1 : 469), but it is not good. 



New York: Adirondacks. Peck. (Albany Herb., as type of C. circinans). 

 Hudson Falls. Burnham, No. 57. (U. N. C. Herb.). Under hemlock, 

 July 22, 1917. 



Lake George. Coker, No. 19. (U. N. C. Herb.). In clumps or in rows 

 on white pine needles, by path to Prospect Mountain, September 3, 

 1917. Spores as in B. No. 57, 3.7-4.2 x 7. 5-8.2/.. 



Syracuse. Underwood. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., as C. pinca). 

 Vaughns. C. & B. No. 118. In hemlock woods. B. No. 94. Under white 



pines, August 19, 1917. (U. N. C. Herb.). 

 Ithaca. Atkinson. (Cornell Herb., as type of C. flavula). 



New Hampshire: Chocorua. Farlow. (U. N. C. Herb., from Farlow 

 Herb., as Laclinoclacliitin Micheneri). Taste quite bitter. Spores 

 3.5-4 x 6.7-8.2/*. 



Clavaria gracilis Pers. Comm, p. 50 (182). 1797. 



C. alutacca Lasch in Rabenhorst. Klotzschii herbarium vivum 



mycologicum, Cent. 16, No. 1519. 1851. 

 C. fragrans E. & E. N. Am. Fungi, 2nd. Ser., No. 2023. 



1888. 

 C. fragrantissima Atk. Ann. Myc. 6:57. 1908. 

 C. flavuloides Burt. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 9 : 28, pi. 5, fig. 34. 



1922. 



Plates 64 and 88 



Plants small, gregarious, often crowded, slender and delicate, 

 or varying to densely branched and compact, about 2-5 cm. high 

 and 1-4 cm. broad, stem 1-2 mm. thick, short or long, smooth, the 

 base attached to the stringy white mycelium; branches and twigs 



