Clavariacese 



ciavaria. with its size, and the color and quality of its flesh. A well-shaded thin- 

 soiled spot will, after a rain, grow pale, spindling, tender bunches, 

 having but a tinge of red upon the points; perhaps not any. A rich, 

 better lighted spot will produce more robust and highly colored plants. 

 The same can be said of C. flava. C. botrytes is plentiful in Pennsyl- 

 vania, New Jersey, West Virginia and like latitudes. It must be well 

 cooked. 



C. amethys'tina Bull. amethyst in color. (Plate CXXXIX, fig. i, 

 p. 516.) Height ^3 in. Color violet, very much branched or al- 

 most simple. Branches round, even, fragile, smooth, obtuse, known 

 by its color. 



Spores elliptical, pale ochraceous, sub- transparent, 10-12x6-7/1, 

 Massee. 



Common in open woods and grassy places. 



New York, Peck 3Oth Rep. ; West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jer- 

 sey, Mcllvaine. August, September. 



Eaten in Europe, and by some preferred to any other. 



A handsome species, very brittle, and though large, delicate. 



C. fastigia'ta fastigium, the top. Height 1-2 in., tufted, yellow. 

 Branches numerous, flexible, tough, equal, fastigiate (branches point- 

 ing upward), sometimes short and simple, when higher very much 

 branched. 



Spores white, irregularly globose, 4-6/4 Massee. 



In pastures and grassy places, during warm months. 



North Carolina, Curtis; California, West Virginia, New Jersey, Penn- 

 sylvania, Mcllvaine. 



Commonly eaten throughout Europe. In Germany they call it 

 Ziegenbart goat's beard. 



This is one of the species that has to be looked for. Grass tufts hide 

 it. Its yellowish stools are not unlike them in color. It is freely found, 

 and, though not of the best, well rewards the seeker. 



C. niUSCOi'des muscus, moss. Height i-iK in., slightly tufted, 

 yellow. Stem slender, tomentose at base, becoming two or three times 

 forked. Branchlets thin, tapering, crescent-shaped, acute. 



Spores white, subglobose, 5-6/n Massee. 



In pastures. 



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