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ritius B., which is described as ‘' brick-red ” with a deeply umbilicate 
pileus. I have seen no such forms of our plant and hesitate to adopt 
the opinion there expressed. The species appears to be peculiar 
to this country. 
Craterellus clavatus Pers. 
Pileus fleshy, soft, clavate or narrowly obconic, turbinate, truncate 
or slightly depressed, nearly glabrous, yellowish, flesh white ; hyme- 
nium slightly corrugated or rugose-wrinkled, dud/-purplish or brownish 
tncarnate ; stem short, solid, pallid or yellowish ; spores subelliptical, 
.0004 to .0005 in. long, .0002 to .0003 in. broad. 
Plant 2 to 3 in. high, pileus 1 to 2 in. broad, stem 3 to 6 lines thick. 
Hemlock woods. Brewerton. September. Rare. 
This species has not been found by me since its discovery in our 
State in 1878. Its corresponding species among the Chantarelles 
is Cantharellus brevipes. Its resemblance to Clavaria pistillaris is also 
noticeable. The pileus is sometimes slightly uneven or rugose, and 
its margin is rather obtuse and sometimes crenately irregular. The 
color of the hymenium is a peculiar mixture of pink, brown, lilae 
and purple, which is not easy to define. It sometimes approaches 
a pale-liver color. Fries describes it as passing from violet-flesh color 
to fuliginous and umber-brown. These variations in the color of the 
hymenium have given rise to various synonyms; for example, Meru- 
lius violaceus Pers., Merulius purpurascens Pers., Merulius carneus 
Pers., and Merulius umbrinus Pers. Other synonyms are Merulius 
clavatus Pers., Clavaria truncata Schmidt, and Clavaria elvellordes 
Wulf. i 
Craterellus coespitosus Pk. is a spurious species and is therefore 
omitted. 
