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tember 29, 1914. Plant clear uniform lilac all over, except white at 

 very base. Spores 4.2-5.5 x 7.6-1 1.9/i. No. 2857. In rocky upland 

 frondose woods, October 1, 1917. 



Blowing Rock. Coker and party, Nos. 5511, 5524, 5550. (U. N. C. Herb.). 



New York: Ticonderoga, Selkirk, Sand Lake, etc. Peck. (Albany Herb., 

 as C. fumigata). There are several other collections in paper folders at 

 Albany. Peck gave some of these the provisional name of C. lilacinipes, 

 but never published it. 



Lake George. Coker, No. 21. September 3, 1917. (U. N. C. Herb.). 



Spores elliptic, rough, 3.7-4.4 x 9.3-1 lp. 

 Ithaca. Atkinson. (Cornell Herb.). 



Connecticut: Redding. Earle. ( N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb.). 



Massachusetts: Newtonsville. Miss Allen. (Albany Herb.). This is 

 typical, the lilac-purple color can still be easily seen in the lower 

 branches and stem. 



Clavaria gelatinosa sp. nov. 



Plates 48-50, and 86 



A strongly tufted, spreading- and heavy plant with much the 

 habit of C. botrytis, but not rooting and more massive at the base 

 and far less fragile; clusters about 7-12 cm. high and 5-14 cm. 

 broad, no distinct stem, the numerous crowded and conjoined 

 branches arising from an amorphous, pallid (creamy white) base, 

 which soon loses itself in the fibrous mycelium and is not rooting ; 

 branches very numerous and crowded, forming a dense mass and 

 repeatedly rebranching to end finally in several pointed cusps. 

 The massive base is nearly always furnished with small, undevel- 

 oped branches which remain whitish. Color when very young 

 pale creamy white, passing through creamy to creamy flesh then 

 deep flesh color (a brownish cinnamon-flesh color, about buff-pink 

 of Ridgway) and then darker, fleshy brown in age; the tips as 

 light as or lighter than the branches at all ages. The flesh colors 

 appear first in the middle region, the base remaining creamy white. 

 Flesh remarkable, gelatinous, transparent, toughish, elastic ; taste 

 distinctly acid, then bitterish and like tobacco; odor very slight 

 when fresh but somewhat fruity when dry and to us distinctly 

 like tobacco. 



Spores (of No. 2413) 4.4-5 x 7.5 -%, most about 4.6 x 8jx, 

 elliptic, marked with numerous small warts under high power, a 

 large, blunt, eccentric mucro, buff-yellow (Ridgw.) when seen at 

 an angle across the paper, ochraceous buff (Ridgw.) in face view, 

 almost exactly the color of those of C. botrytis; they are of a dif- 



