i 2 8 An HISTORY of FUNGUSSES, 



CLXII. SPPLERIA clavata integerrima rubra, capite tuberculato* 

 miliiaris. C lav aria milk ar is. Sp. PI. 1652. Clavaria indivifa 



Jlavefcens plicata. Far. B. Hall. Hifl. 2024. Hudfon, 



Angl. 634, 2. 



MILITARY SPH^RIA. 



TAB. CXXVIII. 



/ T" -V HE colour of the head or club, is a bright orange or 

 ■*• golden fcarlet. The little fphaerulae, which are lodged 

 under the rind or common cover, caufe fmall prominences on 

 the furface of the club. While the plant is young, thefe fmall 

 globular veifels are full of a white tranfparent gelly, which 

 afterwards changes to a dry powder the feed of the plant, and 

 which is difcharged through a fmall pore or aperture, in the 

 external fide of the fphaerulae. 



The internal fubftance of the club and ftera is foft, of a 

 fungous fubftance, of a golden colour, and is eafily divided 

 into fmall mining filaments. 



The root is an hard tubercle at the bafe of the flem, and 

 is furnifhed with brown fibres. 



Grows in this neighbourhood, in garden ground, under the 

 fhadow of plants, &c. but is rare. 



