124 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



3150. In deciduous woods near stream, August 9, 1918. Small, up to 

 4 cm. high and 2-4 cm. broad ; surface glabrous all over, color very pale 

 yellow with tint of flesh, the tips most yellow when young, fading to 

 pale flesh by maturity. No spores to be found (a curious fact, true 

 for nearly all species of Clavaria collected this very hot week). 



Salem. Schweinitz. (Schw. Herb.). 



South Carolina : Society Hill. Curtis. (Curtis Herb.). 



Pennsylvania: Bethlehem. Schweinitz. (Schw. Herb.). 



New Jersey: Alpine. Boynton. (N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). "Yellow, 

 taste sweet, nutty." 



New York: Vaughns. Burnham, No. 108. Under beech. (U. N. C. 



Herb.). Plant yellow. Spores typical, 4-4.5 x 8.5-9.3//,. 

 Bolton. Peck. (Albany Herb.). Spores rough, 4.5 x 9.9-1 1/x. 

 Albany and Lebanon Springs. Peck. (Albany Herb.). Spores nearly 



smooth, 4.5 x 11/a. 



Connecticut: Redding. Coker, No. 26. September 6, 1919. Spores pale 

 yellow, nearly or quite smooth, about 3.7 x 8.5/x. 



Clavaria flava var. aurea n. var. 



Plates 38 and 85 



Plant not massive, about 9 cm. high and 4-5 cm. broad, stem 

 distinct, clean and pointed below, quite glabrous, white at base; 

 branches rather open, rugose, between orange-buff and ochra- 

 ceous buff, with a tint of chrome upward when quite fresh, below 

 more fleshy or salmon orange or apricot color; flesh only moder- 

 ately brittle, colored like the surface; odor faintly rancid, taste 

 mild, slightly krauty. Threads of flesh nearly parallel, about 

 7.4-10.8|x thick. 



Spores (of No. 2851) buff-yellow, nearly smooth, elliptic, 

 3.1-3.7 x6.6-9.3fj.. Hymenium (of No. 2893) about 55[jl thick; 

 basidia 6.2-7.4[x thick with 4 long sterigmata. 



This variety is distinguished by its rich color, less brittle flesh, 

 clear, distinct, tapering stem, which comes to a point below and is 

 not connected with mycelium except by a basal point, and by the 

 somewhat smaller spores. It differs from C. flava var. subtilis 

 (No. 2843) in smaller and smoother spores. 



North Carolina: Chapel Hill. No. 2851. Under pine and dogwood south 

 of campus, October 2, 1917. (Type). No. 2893. Mixed woods south 

 of athletic field, October 8, 1917. A distinct plant ; no other has so 

 clean, slender and perfectly pointed a base. Base pure white, the 



