Clavarias of the United States and Canada 117 



rough, 3.3-3.7x7-9.3/*. No. 3297. In humus, deciduous woods, June 

 6, 1919. Delicate pinkish salmon all over with tints of light ochraceous 

 in maturing parts; tips scarcely creamy when young. Flesh distinctly 

 pink and with a tendency to sliver when broken. Spores 3.3-3.7 x 

 7.7-9.3/1. No. 4679. Mixed woods by Battle's Branch, October 21, 

 1920. (Type). 



Clavaria subbotrytis var. intermedia. 



Plates 34 and 85 



Plants about 5-12 cm. high and 3.5-11 cm. broad; base usually 

 rather massive and more or less set with little aborted twigs, con- 

 tracted in the ground to a point, and at times branched at the 

 ground; branches very numerous, more or less cauliflower-like, 

 moderately rugose, the tips blunt and simple or cusped ; deep flesh 

 color or a clear coral pink or rarely salmon-yellow (No. 3055) all 

 over except the white base, the tips concolorous or paler with tints 

 of cream; when very young all parts lighter, the tips whitish or 

 creamy; in age or on drying becoming light ochraceous. Flesh 

 flesh colored or clear coral, very brittle and firm, tender and al- 

 most tasteless and odorless (a faint krauty taste and odor) ; when 

 dry rather soft and pliable, not chalky-friable or very fragile. 



Spores (of No. 2847) cinnamon-ochraceous in a thick print 

 (not yellowish ochraceous), elliptic, nearly smooth, 3.5-4.5x9.4- 

 llf/.; basidia 4-spored, about 7.5[a thick; threads of the flesh (in 

 middle region) densely packed, slender, 5.5-6.3(1. thick. 



This plant is intermediate between C. botrytis and C. sub- 

 botrytis as is shown by the body and base of the one and the plant- 

 color and deeply tinted spores of the other. The spores average 

 longer than in C. subbotrytis and a little longer than in C. botrytis 

 and C. flava. We are treating the plant as a variety of C. sub- 

 botrytis because of the deep spore color which is just the same in 

 both. 



North Carolina: Chapel Hill. No. 781. In woods south of athletic field, 

 two plants, September 17, 1913. Flesh white at base, flesh colored 

 above, moderately brittle, not chalky when dry. Spores smooth, 

 3.3-3.7x8.3-9.5/*. No. 2824. Rocky hillside, deciduous woods, Sep- 

 tember 11, 1917. Tips abruptly pale lemon-yellow to whitish. Spores 

 3.7-4.2 x 9-10.5/1. No. 2825. Rocky hillside, deciduous woods, Sep- 

 tember 11, 1917. Just like No. 2824 except that most of the plant was 

 strongly rugose, a conspicuous feature, and the tips were only slightly 

 lighter than the flesh colored upper third — middle region pallid cream. 

 Flesh color of surface. Spores 3.5-4 x 8.5-10.6/*. No. 2847. Upland 



