118 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



frondose woods, October 1, 1917. (Type). No. 2853. Under pine 

 and dogwood south of campus, October 2, 1917. Spores minutely rough, 

 3.8-4 x 8.5-1 1/x. No. 3055. Deciduous woods in Strowd's lowgrounds, 

 May 23, 1918. Color white below, salmon yellow above. Spores 

 slightly rough 3.7-5 x 8.5-1 1/x. No. 4316. In cool, low, deciduous 

 woods, May 31, 1920. Spores rather light ochraceous with faint tint 

 of salmon, 2.8-3.7 x 7-9.3/x. 



New York: Lake George. Coker, No. 112. (U. N. C. Herb.). Oak and 

 maple woods. Prospect Mountain trail, September 3, 1917. Pink 

 throughout except the cinnamon-pink base ; rugose. Flesh also strongly 

 pink. Spores exactly as in No. 2847, 3.8-4 x 9.7-1 Iju, but too few for 

 color to be seen. 



Clavaria sanguinea Pers. Obs. Myc. 2: 61, pi. 3, fig. 5. 1799. 



Plates 35 and 85 



Plant about 6-8.5 cm. high and 4.3-7.5 cm. broad, arising from 

 a single or divided stem about 1.5-2 cm. long above ground and 

 1-1.8 cm. thick, which is typically pinched in at the ground and 

 extended into a smaller, tapering, pointed root, or the root may 

 be so short as to be but a point on the stem; main branches 

 2-5, upright with narrow angles or more or less flared, branching 

 tardily or rather soon into upright, crowded branchlets which re- 

 branch immediately into numerous, closely crowded, upright 

 terminals, forming a remarkably plane surface exactly as in a 

 cauliflower, which end in several blunt cusps; color when young 

 pallid white below, light egg-yellow above, the tips deepest, at 

 times with a tint of pink added to the yellow or the yellow pale and 

 the creamy pink predominating ; towards maturity becoming paler 

 above, but at all ages becoming stained when bruised with deep 

 blood-red or brownish red or brick-brown, and in age the whole 

 plant assuming this color in great part, only here and there the 

 pallid remaining in areas or strips. Flesh colored like the sur- 

 face, but not changing to red except superficially, mild (faintly 

 acid-woody), odorless or with a faint anise odor on standing a 

 while in the laboratory. Threads of the flesh about 7 A\x thick, get- 

 ting smaller near hymenium, no clamp connections seen. 



Spores (of No. 2656) rather light yellow-ochraceous, smooth, 

 elliptic with a large eccentric mucro, 3-3.8x7.5-8.5^, most about 

 3.7x7.8[x. Basidia (of No. 4394) long-clavate, 4-spored, 7\j 

 thick. 



A distinct and well marked species, that it seems to us should 

 be referred to C. sanguinea of Persoon. His figure, which is in 



