SPAEASSIS — CLAVAEL\. 75 



forming a compact head, springing from a thick, stem-like, 

 rooting base, whitish or pale ochraceous ; spores pale ochra- 

 ceous, 5-6 X 3-4 /x. 



Sparassis crispa, Cke., Hdbk., n. 958, f. 87 ; Stev., Brit. 

 Fung, ii. p. 289 ; Hogg and Johnst., t. 24. 



Amongst heather, in fir woods, &c. Variable in size, some- 

 times forming masses 18 in. across. 



CLAVAEIA. Yaill. (figs. 2, 3, 4, 8, p. 74.) 



Sporophore erect, simple, and more or less club-shaped, 

 or variously, often excessively branched ; hymenium covering 

 every part of the sporophore, which is not furnished with a 

 distinct stem; basidia tetrasporous ; spores colourless or 

 coloured. 



Clavaria, Yaill., Paris, p. 39 (in part) ; Fr., Syst. Myc. i. 

 p. 465. 



Growing on the ground or rarely on wood. Fleshy and 

 brittle, often very bright-coloured. Calocera, a genus re- 

 sembling a branched Clavaria in habit, is distinguished by 

 its viscidity and subgelatinous nature, also by the sub- 

 globose, cruciately septate basidia. 



I. EAMARIA. Branched, hrancJies attenuated upicards. 



* Leucosporae. Spores ichite or dingy ; not ochraceous. 



f Colour clear yellow, red or violet. 



Clavaria botrytes. Pers. 



Fragile, basal portion thick, fleshy, passing into numerous 

 irregular, crowded, thick branches, which are thickened at 

 the extremity and broken up into numerous densely-crowded, 

 reddish, toothed branchlets ; spores white, 8 x 5 /x. 



Clavaria hotrytes, Cke., Hdbk., n. 959 ; Badham, Esc. Fung, 

 i. t. 16, f. 2 ; Stev., Brit. Fung. ii. p. 290. 



In woods. Large, from 3-6 in. across, 3-4 in. high ; the 

 subglobose ends of the branches are composed of numerous 

 crowded, small branchlets varying from rose-colour to dingy 



