Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi / How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

by Charles McIlvaine; Robert K. Macadam

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1. Clavaria fusiformis,	[523]	3. Clavaria pistillaris (dark var.),	[524]
2. Clavaria pistillaris (yellow var.),	[524]

C. fusifor´mis Sow.—fusus, a spindle. (Plate [CXXXVIII], fig. 1, p. 522.) Yellow, cespitoso-connate, slightly firm, soon hollow. Clubs somewhat fusiform, simple and toothed, even, attenuated to the base which is of the same color. Stevenson.

Spores pale yellow, globose, 4–5µ Massee.

Closely resembles C. inæqualis Fl. Dan.

Woods and pastures. August to November.

Received from E.B. Sterling, Trenton, N.J., August, 1897.

The clubs are ¹⁄₁₆ in. through, 4 in. high, light clear yellow, translucent, clustered in groups of four or five united at the base.

Tender, well flavored, cooks easily.

C. auran´tio-cinnabari´no Schw.—aurantius, orange; cinnabaris, vermilion. Orange-red; base white with a sub-hairy powder; clubs simple, flexuous, fleshy, somewhat tenacious, fasciculate, thickened in the middle and attenuated toward either end, at first cylindrical then compressed, 6–7 mm. thick, 2–4 in. high.

Pennsylvania. On the ground among rhododendrons.