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EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS OF CANADA<br />
cream colored within, finally hollow, taste mild, spores oblong-ellipsoid,<br />
smooth, 11-13.5 X 5-7 m-<br />
Singly or gregarious on the ground in moist woods. Aug.-Oct.<br />
The large, rather bright colored, club-shaped fruiting bodies of this<br />
fungus are very striking and distinctive. Occasionally the tip of the club will<br />
be somewhat depressed and sterile, thus proving the exception to the rule that<br />
the clavarias are fertile all over.<br />
CLAVARIA STRICTA Fr. Edible, not recommended<br />
Figure 349, page 235<br />
FRUCTIFICATION 1 J/2-3 in. high, much branched, the main branches arising<br />
from a thick irregular whitish base, erect, cylindric or flattened toward the base,<br />
tapering upwards, terminating in several small yellowish teeth, light tan to<br />
tawny, consistency rather tough, not brittle, taste bitter, spores cinnamon-<br />
buff", elHpsoid, minutely rough 7.5-9 X 3.5-4.5 /i-<br />
Forming dense tufts on rotten wood. July-Oct.<br />
The tough consistency and bitter taste are the distinguishing characters of<br />
this species and render it of poor quality as an edible species although it is not<br />
poisonous.<br />
THELEPHORACEAE<br />
The Thelephoraceae include a large group of fungi in which the spores are<br />
borne on a smooth surface and not on spines, pores, or lamellae. Most of them<br />
consist simply of a layer of fungus tissue growing on wood or bark, frequently<br />
on the under side of logs or sticks, and producing spores over the surface.<br />
Some of this group develop a definite pileus which may be more or less<br />
bracket-like, growing on wood, or upright and growing on the ground. The<br />
latter are distinguished from the Clavariaceae, which also have a smooth<br />
hymenium, by the fact that the hymenium does not cover the entire surface of<br />
the fruiting body, but there is always some differentiation into an upper sterile<br />
surface and a lower fertile surface. Only a single species is described here.<br />
CRATERELLUS CORNUCOPIOIDES Fr. Edible<br />
Figure 365, page 255<br />
Horn of Plenty<br />
FRUCTIFICATION about 1-3 in. high, %-2J4 in. across the top, funnelshaped<br />
or trumpet-shaped with a flaring margin, the margin even to wavy or<br />
lobed, sometimes becoming torn, thin, rather tough or brittle, interior or<br />
upper surface dry, rough to scaly, dark grayish brown, lower surface or hymenium<br />
ashy to blackish, smooth or somewhat wrinkled, stipe very short or<br />
absent, spores ellipsoid, smooth, one-celled, 11-15 X 7-9 /x-<br />
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