186 Clavarias of the United States and Canada 



3-3.5 x 6.3-7 fi. No. 87. Under white pines. Plants small and appar- 

 ently not different from the form under hemlock. Spores 3.3 x 5.7-6.8/i. 

 No. 88. Under hemlocks. Spores 3.3 x 5.7-7.6/x. Burnham and Coker, 

 No. 102. Hemlock woods, September 2, 1917. Typical form from which 

 the description was mostly drawn. Spores 3-3.7 x 5-6. 3/x. No. 108. In 

 pines, and intermediate between the flaccida form of hemlock and the 

 larger one of pines, September 2, 1917. Tips pale yellowish ochraceous, 

 shading downward to ochraceous; no green. No. 117. Maple woods 

 (no hemlocks), September 2, 1917. Exactly like the form under hem- 

 locks. Spores 3.2-3.7 x 6.3-7.7/u.. Burnham, No. 119b. Same deciduous 

 woods as No. 52, August 13, 1918. Taste mildly bitterish-peppery; no 

 change in cut flesh. (Above colls, in U. N. C. Herb.). 



Vermont: Newfane. Miss Hibbard. (U. N. C. Herb.). 



Michigan: Agricultural College. On rotten wood. Hicks. (N. Y. Bot. 

 Gard. Herb., as Lachnocladium Micheneri). Spores pip-shaped, minutely 

 warted, 2.5 x 5.2/x. 



Canada: On earth in woods, September 9, 1908. Macoun. (Ellis Collec- 

 tion, N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., as C. flaccida). Spores typical, 3 x 7-7.4/*. 



Clavaria Broomei Cotton and Wakefield. Trans. Brit. Myc. 

 Soc. 6: 170. 1919. 

 ?C. oblectanca Britz. Hymen. Siidb. 10: 179, Clavariei, fig. 87. 

 1894. 



Plates 71 and 89 



Plants 3-7 cm. high, solitary or gregarious, with a distinct and 

 usually long stalk, which varies from 2-5 cm. long and 2A mm. 

 thick below; usually thicker upwards and there crested with a 

 cluster of short, thickish, blunt or acute branches, or at times 

 dividing further down into two or three long upright branches 

 which are similarly crowned with short branches ; color ochraceous 

 brown when fresh, in age a darker reddish brown and often 

 blackish in part on drying, the tips lighter when young, the base 

 whitish or pinkish where covered with leaves. Flesh not very 

 brittle, watery white, not changing color when bruised, tasteless 

 and odorless; hyphae about 3.7\u thick, regular, parallel, closely 

 packed, clamp connections present. 



Spores deep reddish ochraceous, elliptic with a bent end, dis- 

 tinctly papillate, 4.4-6 x 12.5-18.4ja. Basidia (of B. No. 74) 9-10jx 

 thick, 4-spored; hymenium 55-75[a thick, yellow in section. 



In woods mold or leaves in frondose or mixed frondose and 

 hemlock woods. Known in America at present only from 

 Vaughns, N. Y. 



