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BURT — THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF CLAVARIA 43 



"Among fallen leaves in woods. Floodwood. September. The 

 whole plant is scarcely more than six lines high. The coloring 

 of the upper part is very delicate and beautiful." 



Fructifications now with all parts pinkish buff; spores hyaline, 

 even, 3X2 |j. 



64. C. aurantio-cinnabarina Schweinitz, Am. Phil. Soc. Trans. 



N. S. 4: 183. 1832; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 718. 1888. 



Plate 8, fig. 65. 

 Type: authentic specimen from Herb. Schw. in Curtis Herb., 

 no specimen now in Herb. Schw. 



"Locis terrae nudae ad ripas Lehigh in Rhododendretis. 



"C. terrestris ad radices tamen arborum, simplex, carnosa, 

 subtenax, fasciculatim proveniens, seriebus saepe elongatis, 

 multiformis, varians a junioribus 3 linearibus ad triunciales 

 adultas altitudine. Deorsum attenuata, medio incrassata, apicem 

 versus iterum attenuata. Clavulis aetate compressis, flexuosis, 

 juventute teretibus. Basi albo-pulverulenta aut pruinata et 

 subbyssacea. Ceterum gaudet colore ex aurantio in cinnabar- 

 inum vergenti. Majoribus clavulis interdum 14 uncialibus 

 crassitie ; apice semper obtusiusculo." 



Fructifications simple, cespitose, fleshy, somewhat tough, 6 

 mm. when young to 7 cm. high when full grown, 6 mm. thick, 

 thickened in the middle, attenuated towards both base and apex, 

 cylindric when young, becoming compressed and flexuous, from 

 golden yellow verging into cinnabar; the base white-pulverulent 

 or pruinose and somewhat byssoid; apices always obtuse. 



The original specimen is now between cinnamon-drab and 

 Rood's brown, with clubs hollow where shown broken across, 

 somewhat compressed; basidia with 4 stout sterigmata, each 

 9-13 [i long; spores even, globose, 5-6 n in diameter, hyaline. 



I have gatherings from Vermont and New York which seem 

 referable to this species but usually lack notes as to whether 

 bitter or not, for I was not aware until the appearance of Cotton 

 and Wakefield's recent work that the closely related C. jusijormis 

 has a bitter taste; however, in one Vermont collection I did 

 note the taste as pleasant, and in another as with the fragrant 

 odor of Cantharellus cibarius. What Hard 1 illustrates and dis- 

 cusses as C. jusijormis may have been C. aurantio-cinnabarina, 

 for he states that the specimens have an excellent flavor. 



^ard, Mushrooms, 472, text f. 397. 1908. 



