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ing. Flesh pliable, tender; taste distinctly acid or acid-bitter; 

 odor none. 



Spores (of No. Ill) deep ochraceous (color as in C. dccur- 

 rens), narrow, the tapering tip bent, minutely tuberculate, 2.5-3 x 

 5.9-7(1.. Basidia 4.4-5. If/, thick, 4-spored; hymenium about 50-5 5f/. 

 thick, the surface densely packed with spores and a large number 

 of spores also embedded in the hymenium and in places arranged 

 in a row about half way down, thus showing the hymenium to be 

 doubled by periodic growth. 



Nearest C. decurrens and C. flaccida, from the first of which it 

 differs in lavender tips, sour taste, absence of color change when 

 bruised, and different spores. 



This beautiful and delicate plant was found twice in hemlock 

 leaves in two different groves. In each case it was growing near 

 but not mixed with C. flaccida, which was of the same size, habit 

 and not very different in color, except at the tips. This tip color 

 varies from very strong, almost purplish, lavender to very pale 

 whitish lavender. The crested tips, which were conspicuous in 

 several of the plants in one collection, were not seen in any case 

 in C. flaccida, which was much more abundant. The spores also 

 are distinctly narrower and of a different shape from those of C. 



flaccida. 



At first glance one might suspect this to be the same as C. 

 Holmskjoldi Oudemans (Nederlandsch Kruidkundig Archief, 

 series 3, 2 : 672, pi. 3, fig. 2), which is of the same shape and about 

 the same color, with purplish tips at maturity; but in the latter 

 the spores are said to be round (4.2pt. in diameter) and there is a 

 strong odor of anise. Clavaria afflata Lagger (Flora 19: 231. 

 1836) has points in common with our plants but the body color is 

 said to be white, then grayish smoky. The spores are not known. 



New York: Oneida. House, No. 1447. August, 1914. (U. N. C. Herb.). 

 Spores as in type, minutely rough to apparently smooth, 2.5-3 x 5.5-6.3/*. 

 Vaughns. Burnham, No. 81. Grassy woods margin, July 27, 1917. 

 Spores minutely rough, 3-3.3x6.6-7.7/*. C. & B. No. 101. Under 

 hemlocks. Burnham's grove, September 2, 1917. (Type). C. & B. No. 

 111. Golden's hemlocks, September 2, 1917. (All these in U. N. C. 

 Herb.). 



