ECOLOGICAL NOTES 
C, G. LLOYT' 
Page 988 
CLAVARIA TRUNCATA FROM STEWART H, BURNHAM, NEW YORK (Fig. 
±755 ).- ^Tiile this plant has been known for about two hundred years, 
having be in illustrated by Miche.li. it has had such a variety of 
was a Cia- 
as Burt well 
states 
raises it is hard to trace it. The' old fellows thought it 
and it is so close to CLavaria pistil! 
it, it is a vexed question whether it is or is not Clavaria 
laris. It is the same plant excepting it has a truncate apex. 
Technically it is not a Cla.varia for the truncate apex does not bear 
a hymenium. hence it is a “pileus" and is called Crater ell is. It is 
a case where natural affinities have been subordinated to artificial 
classification. For me it is a Clavaria, and while I do not usually 
tahe much stock in Quelet, I think he used the best name, Clavaria 
truncata* The very old fellows did not distinguish it from Clavaria 
pistillaris and Persoon called it Clavaria hercuieana as a variety, 
in his early days Fries did not hold it distinct but later he classed 
it as Craterellus pistillaris and claimed it as distinct from Clavaria 
pistillaris not only in shape but habitat, stating that it grew in 
pine woods around Upsala where Clavaria pistillaris docs not occur. 
However, a specimen of Clavaria pistillaris in his hebarium, from 
around Upsala, does not bear this out. In this country while Clavaria 
pistillaris is common enough, Clavaria t rune at a is rare j-t— 
are the first w 
have received. 
and these 
:-urt has only two records of i' 
CRATERELLUS UNICOLOR FROM SUSAN TUCKER, WASHINGTON (state).' 
When I compared the type of Craterellus unicclor at Kew with the 
■ ding plant, 
same plant. 
prec 
•che 
Pacific coast with the pr 
T t seems to take its best 
a specimen from Fries 
When I compare now the 
at Kew. I 
thought 
eding slant 
development 
they were 
specimen received from the 
, it appears quite distinct, 
in the West and one would 
hardly refer it to Clavaria. But I suspect if the truth were known 
it grades from the western form through our eastern form and through 
Clavaria t rune at a-, into Clavaria pistillaris. A second collection 
received from Miss Tucker (Fig. 1755 on the left) seems to connect it 
oretty closely in the same locality. Clavaria unicolor is not well 
named as far as this western plant is concerned for the pileus top is 
reddish brown and the dried hymenium is rather fuliginous. But I 
note it becomes brown when moistened. Ravenel so distributed it and 
Peck called it Craterellus corrugis 
i 
statement. Note 56, that he 
caned it Cantharellus c lav at us is an 
error due 
memory. It is rather a local plant in the United Stave 
tofore been mostly known from around Boston. Burt do 
western station. 
bo my treacherous 
3 s and has here* 
not give any 
Pilei thin, brown, incised, 
CHIPP, SINGAPORE (Fig. 1756 ).' 
n r gin 
STERFUM INCISUM FROM T. F. 
3 , tapering to the bo.se. 
incised. Surface smooth, striate. Hymenium dark umber brown, 
Cystilia none. Spores if correctly seen, globose, hyaline, 8 mio. 
The pilei grew fasciculate from the top of the rooting 
In texture, thickness and color 
smooth. 
stem. 
hey are similar to our 
Pf p r* y 1 1 
^ u L j, a, a, m l 
sericeum. We would enter it in Section 6 although it 
suggest 
any other species in our Stioitate Ster 
in 
.urns, 
the ground, the pilei fasciculate from the top of 
This little plant grew 
;he root stalk. 
STEREUM CUNEOFORME FROM T. F. CHIPP, SINGAPORE (Fig. 1757).- 
Spathulate, incised, concolorous, grey, glabrous, about a cm. high 
