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Clavaria amethystina (Battara) Bulliard 

 Jenny brook, Yama faiins, Napanoch, Ulster county. H. I. 

 Miller and Dr F. B. Tnrck, August 5, 1922. The specimen is a 

 beautiful compact tuft, 4-6 cm tall. The dried material is a pale 

 or dull lilac color. 



Clavaria aurantio-cinnabarina Schw. 



Fructifications simple, cespitose, fleshy, rather fragile and easily 

 broken when fresh, as well as when dry; 10-20 cm tall, usually a 

 few, rarely several fructifications united at the somewhat paler or 

 whitish base, rarely growing singly; thickened toward or above the 

 middle where 8-12 mm thick, attenuate toward the base, less so 

 toward the apex which is obtuse, hollow and not compressed when 

 fresh, becoming compressed when dry, golden yellow in color, with- 

 out distinctive odor, the taste agreeable and distinctly not bitter. 



Moist soil in open woods under the shade of ferns. Jenny brook, 

 Yama farms, Napanoch, Ulster count}-. Mr and Mrs J. A. Kings- 

 bury and H. D. House, August 9, 1922. 



This is the plant commonly designated as Clavaria fusi- 

 form i s Sowerby, in this State, and as such is not rare. Accord- 

 ing to English authorities the true C. fusiformis has a 

 bitter taste and a more densely tufted habit and is canary-yellow in 

 color. 



Cordyceps agariciformis (Bolton) Seaver 



In woods near Vernooy kill camp (Potterville), Ulster county, 

 parasitic on old Scleroderma. H. D. House, August 8, 1922. 

 Cordyceps militaris (L.) Link, parasitic on buried pupae, was 

 also frequent in the same locality, and also at Yama farms, 

 Napanoch. 



Corticium investiens (Schw.) Bres.^ 



On dead limbs of maple, on ground, in woods, near Oneida, Madi- 

 son county. H. D. House, October 15, 1920. 



Corticium tessulatum Cooke^ 



On decayed wood of hemlock, Osceola, Lewis county. C. H. Peck. 



Corticium vellereum Ellis & Cragin- 

 On fallen branches of Populus tremuloides Michx., 

 Albany, H. D. House, October 15, 1919. Collected by Doctor Peck 

 at \\'estport (Corticium chlamydosporum Burt, in 



' Determined by Dr E. A. Burt. 



