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downward, sometimes simple clubs with apex obtuse, sometimes 

 with tips bidentate or bilobed, and sometimes divided above into 

 short, obtuse branchlets. Since the fructifications lack a common 

 trunk and are tufted I have located this species in the Syncoryne. 

 The specimens bear some resemblance to the original figure of 

 C. amethystina, pi. 7, jig. 62, but a closer resemblance in aspect 

 to C. Schaeffcri Sacc., as given in Schaeffer, Icones Fung., pi. 172, 

 and should be compared with European specimens of this species, 

 as suggested by Miss Hibbard. 



vermicularis (Scop.) Fries, Syst, Myc. 1: 484. 1821; 



in 



Sacc. Syll 



m. 2 : 298. text f. 92 

 >rc:an, Cincinnati Soc 



Nat. Hist, Jour. 11: 89. 1888; Cotton & Wakefield, Brit. Myc. 

 Soc. Trans. 6: 183. 1919. Plate 9, fig. 74. 



Clavaria vermiculata Scopoli, Fungi Carn. 2: 483. 1772; Ber- 

 keley, Brit. Fung. 282. I860.— C. fragilis Holmskiold, p. p., 

 Fungi Dan. 1: 7. pi. 2. 1799; Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 484. 1821; 

 Hym. Eur. 675. I860;; Peck, N. Y. State Mus. ReDt. 24: 82. 



1872; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 721. 1888; Morgan, Cincinnati Soc. 

 Nat. Hist. Jour. 11: 89. 1888. 



Illustrations: Hoimskiold, loc. cit.; Cooke, Brit. Ed. Fungi, 

 pi. 4- j-15; Stevenson, loc. cit.; Hard, Mushrooms, text f.395; 

 Patouillard, Tab. Anal. Fung. /. 468. 



Fructifications unbranched, densely tufted, somewhat flexuous, 

 brittle, white, about 4-6 cm. high, with the clubs cylindric, some- 

 times twisted and compressed, even, fragile, becoming hollow, 

 the apex acute; stem not distinct; basidia 30x6-7 m, with 4 

 sterigmata; spores white in the mass, even, subglobose, 3-5X 

 3-4 u. 



On ground. On moist wooded hillsides, grassy borders of woods 



meadows. June to October. Probably common 



Cotton and Wakefield add further: "Easily distinguished 



among the white species by the densely tufted habit, very fragile 

 clubs, and small spores." 



I have studied American gatherings from Vermont, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Ohio, and Missouri which agree well with the above de- 

 scription. These specimens were not yet in the stage with stem 

 hollow. C. fragilis which has been reduced to synonymy by 

 Cotton and Wakefield as the final stage of C. vermicularis was 

 originally regarded as distinct by the hollow stem. 



