TOOTH-BEARING FUNGI, HYDNACE^ 



peck measure. In the Bear's Head, as the 

 name might suggest, there is a massing of 

 the drooping spines at the ends of the 

 branchlets, and these heads often possess a 

 certain mark of shagginess, due to a wavy 

 or sinuous form assumed by some of the 

 specimens. 



Fairy Club or Coral Fungi, 



CLAVARIACEiE 



The ClavariacecB are characterized by a 

 spore-bearing surface which may cover 

 practically the entire sporophore. The 

 plants are upright, and most members of the 

 family are rather fleshy, often much 

 branched, or coralloid, however sometimes 

 club-like in habit. All the species which 

 are sufficiently fleshy or delicate are consid- 

 ered edible, and certainly those that are suf- 

 ficiently attractive to be collected for the ta- 

 ble are non-injurious. Clavaria (Plate 

 XI, a) is the most important genus, and it 

 includes many striking species. Clavaria 



