Received from E.B. Sterling, Trenton, N.J.
The plant when fresh is a beautiful rose color, inclining to orange at the tips. It reminds one of the peach-blow vase color in some of its shades. The single clubs, growing in cluster, to the height of four inches, graceful in outline, exquisitely shaded, are a sight one lingers over. While they invite the mycophagist to eat them, his voracity is checked by their beauty. They are tender and delicious. It is regrettable that thus far it has not been reported in quantity.
C. inæqual´is Fl. Dan.—unequal. Height 2–3 in. club-shaped, yellow, gregarious, single or in loose tufts, fragile, stuffed. Clubs club-shaped or almost equal, simple, sometimes forked or variously cut at tip, one color.
Spores colorless, elliptical, 9–10×5µ Massee.
Woods and pastures. August to October.
Distinguished from C. fusiformis by the tips not being sharp-pointed and colored.
North Carolina, Schweinitz; New Jersey, Sterling.
This Clavaria is quite common in New Jersey. Its clusters are clear bright yellow and conspicuously pretty. The clubs are translucent and smooth. Excepting in color it resembles C. aurantio-cinnabarino. In the many specimens seen there was nothing to suggest the propriety of the name, excepting height of clubs.
A dish of it is a delicacy.
C. vermicula´ris Scop.—vermis, a worm. Height 1–2½ in., white, tufted. Clubs simple, quill-shaped, stuffed, awl-shaped, brittle, pointed.