Clavarias of the United States and Canada 179 



"Stem slender, solid, irregularly branched above, tawny, with 

 an abundant mycelium which forms whitish, branching strands 

 among decaying leaves and twigs; branches short, divergent or 

 wide spreading with few branchlets, colored like the stem, the 

 ultimate branchlets mostly acute, whitish; spores subglobose, 4|a 

 long. Scattered or gregarious, 1-2.5 cm. tall, stems about 0.5 mm. 

 thick. 



"The abundant rhizomorphoid mycelium is a marked feature 

 of this species. The plant is inodorous but has a slight peppery 

 taste. It is allied to our eastern C. pnsilla, but it is a smaller, more 

 slender plant with the slender stem branched above only, and with 

 the few short branches more widely spreading." 



Illustration : Burt. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 9 : pi. 6, fig. 37. 1922. 



California : E. B. Copeland. In mountains near Stanford University, 

 among fallen leaves and twigs under redwood trees, December. (Type. 

 Albany Herb.). 



Clavaria abietina Pers. Neues Mag. Bot. 1 : 117. 1794. 



Plates 68 and 89 



The following description is made from plants taken by us at 

 Vaughns, N. Y. (No. 132) : 



Plants small, about 2-4 cm. high and 1-3 cm. broad, branched 

 at or near the base, the branches numerous and crowded, the tips 

 not so numerous and fine as in the flaccida form, color dull 

 ochraceous above, brownish ochraceous below when very fresh, 

 but soon with tints of olive green at any point or all over, deep 

 olive green when bruised. Flesh pliable, hardly breaking when 

 bent on self, tips not whitish at any age. Color a little darker 

 than in the flaccida form when quite fresh, then much darker with 

 the olive-brown tints of age. Taste hardly bitter, rather mouldy, 

 odor none. 



Spores (of C. & B. No. 110) deep yellowish ochraceous, pip- 

 shaped, papillate-warted, 3-3.7 x 6.2-8.5^.. Hymenium 35-45^ 

 thick, containing very many embedded spores which are not ar- 

 ranged in layers. 



In hemlock woods on decaying hemlock needles in the northern 

 states, and rarely in the South. 



