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ritius B., which is described as " brick- red " with a deeply uml)ilicate 

 pileus. I have seen no such forms of our plant and hesitate to adopt 

 the opinion there expressed. The species appears to be peculiar 

 to this country. 



Craterellus clavatus Pers. 



Pileus fleshy, soft, clavate or narrowly obconic, turbinate, truncate 

 or slightly depressed, nearly glabrous, yellowish, flesh white ; hyine- 

 niuni slightly corrugated or rugose-wrinkled, dull-purplish or brownish 

 incarnate; stem short, solid, pallid or yellowish ; spores subelliptical, 

 .0004 to .0005 in. long, .0002 to .0003 in. broad. 



Plant 2 to 3 in. high, pileus 1 to 2 in. broad, stem 3 to 6 lines thick. 



Hemlock woods. Brewerton. September. Rare. 



This species has not been found by me since its discovery in our 

 State in 1878. Its corresponding species among the Chantarelles 

 is Cantharellus brevipes. Its resemblance to Clavaria pistillaris is also 

 noticeable. The pileus is sometimes slightly uneven or rugose, and 

 its margin is rather obtuse and sometimes crenately irregular. The 

 color of the hymenium is a peculiar mixture of pink, brown, lilac 

 and purple, which is not easy to define. It sometimes approaches 

 a pale-liver color. Fries describes it as passing from violet-flesh color 

 to fuliginous and umber-brown. These variations in the color of the 

 hymenium have given rise to various synonyms ; for example, Meru- 

 lius violaceus Pers., Merulius purpurascens Pers., Merulius carneus 

 Pers., and Merulius umbrinus Pers. Other synonyms are Merulius 

 clavatus Pers., Clavaria truncata Schmidt, and Clavaria elvelloides 

 Wulf. 



Craterellus ccespitosus Pk. is a spurious species and is therefore 

 omitted. 



