USA, Massachusetts, Collected in quantity in "Purgatory Swamp", near Ellis, Mass. (vicinity of Boston)
Published in Nat. Geogr. Magazine, May, 1920. Whole plant reddish egg-yellow, with a fine whitish bloom, semi-translucent. Flesh yellow. Hymenium (in section) narrow, lighter than flesh. Tips of plants conspicuously sharp-pointed, darkish (Burnt Sienna). At first the points are pale. Base and young plants paler at times, almost whitish. A good common name for the plant would be "Macaroni Clavaria", because of its decided resemblance to that article of food. Plants hollow throughout, and collapsed, thus, in section: [ line drawing ]. Some specimens much contorted, as shown.
[Watercolor painting of this specimen by L. C. C. Krieger is available labeled as "Clavaria fusiformis" along with a picture of the notes page]