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Clavaria obtusissima 



Much branching from a short thick whitish stem, the branches 

 curving, dividing irregularly, enlarged above and divided into sev- 

 eral blunt, wrinkled ends, longitudinally wrinkled, ochraceous, flesh 

 white, taste mild ; spores ochraceous in mass, oblong or subcylindric, 



I2-l6 X 5-6 [X. 



Plant 10-12 cm tall, 6-10 cm broad. 



Woods of deciduous trees. West Roxbury, Mass. September. 

 Miss Ann Hibbard. 



Stipes crassus, brevis, ramosissimus, ramosi ramulosique curvati, 

 supra sulcati et incrassata, ochracei, caro albus, sapor mitis ; sporae 

 ochroceae, oblongae vel subcylindraceae, 12-16 x 5-6 fx. 



Clavaria subcaespitosa 

 Forming dense tufts 7.5-12.5 cm tall, fragile, white or whitish, 

 the stems united at the base, three to five times dichotomously 

 divided, the terminal branchlets obtuse or subacute, both stems and 

 branches solid, soft, becoming thinner and flattened or angular in 

 drying, flesh white, taste mild; spores broadly ellipsoid or sub- 

 globose, 4-5 X 3-4 (X. 



Ground. Ellis, Mass. September. Mrs E. B. Blackford and 

 G. E. Morris. Communicated by Miss Ann Hibbard. 



This species may be separated from Clavaria densa Pk. 

 by its greater fragility, whiter color, softer texture and smaller 

 spores. In the dried specimens the stems and branches are much 

 more slender and of a purer white color than in C . densa. 



Stipes brevis, crassus, dichotome ramosissimus, caespites densus 

 7.5-12.5 cm longos fragiles f ormans ; rami ramulique obtusi vel 

 subacuti, solidi, molles, in siccitate tenuiores et deplanati vel angu- 

 lares, carno albo, sapore mite ; sporae late ellipsoideae vel subglo- 

 bosae, 4-5 x 3-4 fx. 



Clitopilus leptonia 



Pileus thin, conic or convex, umbilicate, hygrophanous, squam- 

 ulose in and near the broad umbilicus, chestnut color and striatulate 

 on the margin when moist, black in the umbilicus ; lamellae broad, 

 broadly simuate adnate or decurrent, distant, white becoming pink, 

 sometimes transversely venose ; stem slender, equal or slightly nar- 

 rowed upward, fibrillose, straight, stuffed or hollow, brown becoming 

 darker with age, with a copious white myceliod tomentum at the 

 base; spores subglobose, angular, uninucleate, 10-12 x 8-10 fx. 



