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CLAVARIACE^E Clavaria 



1953. C. erispula Fr. (from the slightly curled branchlets ; crispidus, 



slightly curled) a b c. 

 Trunk very thin or obsolete, very much branched ; branches 



flexuous, multifid, branchlets divaricate, tan to ochreous, buff 



or ochre, almost white below. 

 Base of trees, ash, elder ; rare. Oct. -Dec. 3J x 2§ in. 



SYNCORYN/E. 



1954. C. purpurea Mull, (from the colour ; purpureus, purple) a c. 

 CI. elongate, hollow, then compressed, acute, fragile, opaque, 



claret-brown and slightly purplish to purple. 

 Csespitose. Under pine ; rare. Aug.-Oct. 3! in. 



1955. C. rufa Pers. (from the reddish colour ; rufus, red) a c. 



CI. stuffed, thickened, fusiform, sometimes bifid, rarely trifid, pale 

 warm brown, rarely bright red or orange- vermilion, apices 

 darker with age. 



Csespitose. Odour somewhat strong. Sept. 2.\ in. 



1956. C. rosea Dalman (from the rose colour) a b c. 



CI. stuffed, fragile, pale to claret-pink or full rose-colour, apices 



attenuate or rounded, becoming yellowish with age. 

 Somewhat fasciculate. Pastures, amongst moss ; rare. 2 \ in. 



1957. C. fusiformis Sow. (from the fusiform clubs) a b c. 



CI. somewhat fusiform, apex acute, sometimes bifid, trifid or 



toothed, firm, soon hollow, bright yellow, apices fuscous. 



Spores even. 



Caespitoso-connaie. Amongst grass, woods, pastures, etc. ; common. Sept.- 

 Nov. 5 in. Sometimes intensely bitter. Often confounded with 1958 

 and 1959. Var. ceranoides W. G. Sm., Clavaria ceranoides Pers., unequal, 

 divided above, branched, upper part often antler-like. 



1957a. C. luteoalba Rea (from colour of the club, yellow below, 

 white above ; luteus, yellow, a/bus, white) a. 

 CI. simple, stuffed, attenuate to base, apex acute to blunt, deep 



rich yellow, apex constantly white. 

 Fasciculate or scattered. Amongst grass and bracken. Sept. -Oct. 2\ in. 



1958. C. dissipabilis Britz. (from the scattered habit ; dissipabilis, 



dissipated, scattered) a. 



CI. elongato-clavate, apex rounded, rarely subacute, round or 



compressed and channelled, solid, collapsing, fragile, even,. 



glabrous, deep orange yellow. Spores spinulose. 



Solitary or in small clusters. Short grass in pastures, roads, woods; common. 

 Oct. 2^ in. Often confounded with 1957 and 1959. 



1959. C. insequalis Mull, (from the clubs being often unequal in 



diameter and more or less unevenly compressed ; incequalis, 

 unequal) a b c. 

 CI. variable, usually simple and rounded above, narrow or 



