Spores pointed, 11–12×7–8µ Massee.
Grows single, clustered or in troops along shaded roads, or from leaf mold and ground in woods. July to frost.
Large patches, clustered, grow near stumps in moist places on Botanic Creek, West Philadelphia. It is plentiful near Haddonfield, N. J., at Mt. Gretna, Pa., and many other places in the United States.
It is not pleasant to look upon, because of its peculiar color, but when one gets used to it it has an attractiveness of its own. Its graceful shape, even its funereal hue and name—Trompet du Morte—are alluring.
It dries well, and when moistened expands to its normal size. It is a first-class edible fungus. It should be stewed slowly until tender.
C. clava´tus Fr.—clava, a club. Pileus 2 in. broad, somewhat light-yellowish, fleshy, top-shape, truncate or depressed, flexuous, unpolished, attenuated into the solid stem. Flesh thick, white. Hymenium even, then corrugated, purplish then changing color. Fries.
Spores elliptical, pale-yellow, 10–12×4–5µ Massee.
Professor Peck notes that the species so closely resembles Cantharellus cibarius that it might easily be mistaken for a deformed condition of it.
The resemblance to the yellow forms of Clavaria pistillaria is marked.
Massachusetts, Sprague, Farlow; New York, Peck, Rep. 32; West Virginia, Pennsylvania, McIlvaine.