296 CLAVARIEI. 



Clavaria. bruised, trunk about 6 mm. (3 lin.) long and thick, very much 

 branched. Branches and branchlets tense and straight, even, 

 crowded and adpressed, acute. 



Mycelium most frequently fibrillose, naked. 

 In woods. Uncommon. Aug.-Oct. 



Spores dark cinnamon. Fr. ; creamy-yellow, 4x6 mk. W.G.S. Name — 

 stringo, to draw tight. Tense and straight. Pers. Comm. p. 45. /. 4./. 1. 

 Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 673. Berk. Out. p. 281. /. 18./. 5. C. Hbk. n. 975. S. 

 Mycol. Scot. n. 933. Fl. Dan. t. 1302./. 1. Krombh. t. 54./. 23. 



23. C. crispula Fr.— Entire height 2.5-7.5 cent. (1-3 in.) Tan 

 then ochraceous, very much branched, trunk thin, with villous root- 

 lets. Branches flexuous, multifid, branchlets of the same colour, 

 divaricate. 



Protean but quite distinct. 



At the base of trees, ash. Rare. 



Spores creamy-yellow, 3x5 mk. IV. G.S. Name — crispulus, slightly curled. 

 Fr. Hytn. Eur. p. 673. Syst. Myc. i. p. 470. Berk. Out. p. 281. C. Hbk. n. 

 976.— Bull. t. 358./. 1. a, b. Ehrenb. Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. x. t. 14. 



II. — Syncoryne. Somewhat simple, csespitose at the base, &c. 



* Reddish. 



24. C. purpurea Fr. — Purple, csespitose. Clubs elongated, 

 generally 7.5 cent. (3 in.) long, hollow then compressed, simple, 

 acute. 



Very remarkable. When solitary it is more drawn out and decumbent. 

 Fragile. 



In grassy places. Rare. Aug.-Oct. 



Name — from the colour. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 674. Syst. Myc. i. /. 480. 

 Berk. Out. p. 281. C. Hbk. n. 977. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 934. Fl. Dan. t. 

 837./. 2. 



25. C. rufa Fl. Dan. — Rufous, 4 cent. {1% in.) long, 4 mm. (2 

 lin.) thick. Clubs stuffed, thickened, somewhat bifid, acute. 



Caespitose. 



On the ground. Rannoch. The Burn, Forfarshire. 



Name — rufus, reddish. Fl. Dan. t. 775. f. 1. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 674. 

 Syst. Myc. i. p. 480. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 935. 



26. C. rosea Fr. — Rose-colour, 4 cent. (i}4 in.) long, somewhat 

 fasciculate, fragile. Clubs stuffed, at length becoming yellow at 

 the apex, attenuated downwards, whitish. 



