REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST IQI2 39 
Clavaria obtusissima 
Much branching from a short thick whitish stem, the branches 
curving, dividing irregularly, enlarged above and divided into sev- 
eral blunt, wrinkled ends, longitudinally wrinkled, ochraceous, flesh 
white, taste mild; spores ochraceous in mass, oblong or subcylindric, 
12-16 x 5-6 yu. 
Plant 10-12 cm tall, 6-10 cm broad. 
Woods of deciduous trees. West Roxbury, Mass. September. 
Miss Ann Hibbard. 
Stipes crassus, brevis, ramosissimus, ramosi ramulosique curvati, 
supra sulcati et incrassata, ochracei, caro albus, sapor mitis ; sporae 
ochroceae, oblongae vel subcylindraceae, 12-16 x 5-6 u. 
Clavaria subcaespitosa 
Forming dense tufts 7.5-12.5 cm tall, fragile, white or whitish, 
the stems united at the base, three to five times dichotomously 
divided, the terminal branchlets obtuse or subacute, both stems and 
branches solid, soft, becoming thinner and flattened or angular in 
drying, flesh white, taste mild; spores broadly ellipsoid or sub- 
globose, 4-5 x 3-4 un. 
Ground. Ellis, Mass. September. Mrs E. B. Blackford and 
G. E. Morris. Communicated by Miss Ann Hibbard. 
This species may be separated from Clavaria densa Pk. 
by its greater fragility, whiter color, softer texture and smaller 
spores. In the dried specimens the stems and branches are much 
more slender and of a purer white color than in C. densa. 
Stipes brevis, crassus, dichotome ramosissimus, caespites densus 
7.5-12.5 cm longos fragiles formans; rami ramulique obtusi vel 
subacuti, solidi, molles, in siccitate tenuiores et deplanati vel angu- 
lares, carno albo, sapore mite; sporae late ellipsoideae vel subglo- 
bosae, 4-5 x 3-4 un. 
Clitopilus leptonia 
Pileus thin, conic or convex, umbilicate, hygrophanous, squam- 
ulose in and near the broad umbilicus, chestnut color and striatulate 
on the margin when moist, black in the umbilicus; lamellae broad, 
broadly simuate adnate or decurrent, distant, white becoming pink, 
sometimes transversely venose; stem slender, equal or slightly nar- 
rowed upward, fibrillose, straight, stuffed or hollow, brown becoming 
darker with age, with a copious white myceliod tomentum at the 
base; spores subglobose, angular, uninucleate, 10-12 x 5-10 p. 
