[Vol. 9 



8 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Mushrooms, text f. 202; Hard, Mushrooms, text f. 386; Pock, 

 Igc. cit. References to many other illustrations in : ace. Syil. 

 Yung. 19: 316. 



Fructifications large, 10-12 cm. across and 7-12 cm. high, form- 

 ing fleshy rounded ma »s with v. short, stout base, densely 

 branched above, white to buff, the tips of the branches reddish; 

 mo 1 slight, pleasant, taste plea mt; stem short, stout, white, 



•low: branching irreeular. the nrimarv branches few 



I; 



mm 



fie 



c 



ch 



in the mai , copious, entire in outline but with fine longitudinal 

 or oblique striations often anastomosing, 12-10X4-5 \i. 



On ground among leaves in woods. 



( otton and Wakefield add further that C. botrytis may always 

 be recognized by its characteristic, striate spores. 



I find the spori striate in the European specimen distributed 

 as C. botrytis in Rabenhorst, Herb. Myc, 122, but none of the 

 American specimens labelled C. botrytis in the exsiccati of 

 Ivavenel, Ellis A; Everhart, and Shear have striate spores, and 

 they differ further from C. botrytis as understood in Europe in 

 having the spores minutely rough and only 10-12x3-4 u, which 

 are distinctive characters of C. botrytoides. Does C. botrytis occur 

 in North America ? 



St 



pi. 93. 



j.5-7. 1905; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 21: 426. 1913 Plate 1, fig. 2. 



Type: in N. Y. State Mus. Herb. 



"Stein small, short, divided near the base into branches which 

 are repeatedly and irregularly branched, the ultimate branches 

 short, crowded, blunt, usually terminating in two or more blunt 



r protuberances, red or pink at the tips when young, soon 



fading 



ste mild; spores narrowly elliptic or oblong, rusty brow 

 namoii, .0003-.0004 of an inch long, .00010-.0002 



an inch long, .00016-.0002 broad. 



"The grapelike clavaria is very closely related to the red tipped 

 clavaria and probably has been confused with it. It may be sep- 

 arated from that species by its thinner stem, the fading or 

 evanescent character of the color of the ultimate branchlets and 

 by its shorter and differently colored spores. The tips of the 

 branches in mature or old plants are whitish like the branches 



