Contribution to Our Knowledge of Oregon Fungi—III

Abstract

In wood lot, Corvallis. December. Frequent. No. 2076. 3. Clavaria myceliosa Peck. In coniferous woods, Corvallis. October to November. Fre? quent. No. 2032. 4. Clavaria formosa Fries. In coniferous and mixed woods, Corvallis and Blue River. October to November. Nos. 2158, 2407. Branches wrinkled, blunt, dichotomous above, light ochraceousbuff to light ochraceous-salmon, turning deep vinaceous in all parts when bruised. 5. Clavaria occidentalis n. sp. Fructifications simple or seldom once-forked, single or caespitose, narrowly clavate, often flattened with longitudinal furrows on larger plants, up to 15 cm. long and 4 to 8 mm. broad, Rood's brown when fresh, drying wood brown, concolorous throughout except whitish at base in larger plants; odor pleasant, taste slightly acrid; flesh white; internal structure in central portion hollow to stuffed with meshy strands of filaments, gradually passing to a subhymenial layer of soft pseudoparenchyma; basidia subcylindrical to clavate, 55-74 X 7-9 jx, 2-4-spored; spores ellipsoidal to inequilateral, hyaline, granular, one-guttulate, asperu-