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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 a 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 

 9 X 6 M. 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 Schseffer, 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. The colored figures of this species in Batsch, Bulhard, 

 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: pi. 93. /. 1-4. and Mem. N. Y. State Mus. 4: pi. 66. 

 /. 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. 



15. 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-color shading into bone-brown towards the stem, 



