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unicolor—or at least some of them—have the pileus enlarge 
abruptly in diameter near the upper end and become abruptly 
globose-cerebriform on a slender stem, as shown in figs. 11 and 
12, while C. pistillaris increases in length as well as in diameter, 
tapers downward more uniformly from the truncate upper end, 
and may have the stem bulbous at the base. 
It is à vexed question with mycologists whether Craterellus 
pistillaris Fr. is Clavaria pistillaris L. The specimens which I 
refer to Craterellus pistillaris agree well with specimens of this 
species in Curtis Herbarium, collected at Upsala, Sweden, in 
1853, and communicated by E. P. Fries. Pl. 16 fig. 13 is from a 
photograph, natural size, of these specimens. Their spores are 
9x64. The Friesian specimens have the same dark color as 
our American specimens. Only one of the former shows a 
bulbous tendency at the base of the stem ; in this respect our 
specimens are more like the illustration of Scheeffer, cited above. 
I believe, therefore, that we have Craterellus pistillaris Fr. in 
our flora. I have collected in mixed frondose woods in Mis- 
souri what I refer to Clavaria pistillaris as understood by Euro- 
pean mycologists. As compared with the former species it is 
of softer structure, much paler in color, more regularly clavate 
in form, sometimes splitting at the apex. The illustrations of 
most European authors agree well in regard to Clavaria pis- 
tillaris. Тһе colored figures of this species in Batsch, Bulliard, 
Sturm, Dufour, Flora Danica, Hussey, Krombholz, Quelet, 
and Sowerby present fructifications of the same habit and 
bright coloration which we have by Peck, Bull. N. Y. State 
Mus. 94: pl. 93. f. 1-4. and Mem. N. Y. State Mus. 4: pl. 66. 
f. 15-17. 
Specimens examined: 
Sweden: Upsala, E. P. Fries (in Curtis Herb.). 
Austria: G. Bresadola. 
New Hampshire: Shelburne, W. G. Farlow (in Mo. Bot. Gard. 
Herb., 4933). 
Vermont: Middlebury, E. A. Burt. 
I5. C. palmatus Burt & Overholts, n. sp. Plate 17. fig. 19. 
Type: in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb. and in Overholts Herb. 
Fructifications gregarious or perhaps cespitose, fleshy-soft ; 
pileus fawn-eolor shading into bone-brown towards the stem, 
