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CLAVARIA fubramofa ereSfa alba, CXLIII. 



elegant, 



ELEGANT CLAVARIA. 



TAB. CXV. 



'T^HIS plant, from an hard, brown, fibrous root, rifes per- 

 ■*■ pendicularly to the height of four or five inches. Some- 

 times it is fimple and undivided, the furface wrinkled tranf- 

 verfly, and funk in longitudinal furrows, with alternate ridges ; 

 the whole of an elegant club-fhape, as in the two middle 

 figures. Sometimes it is branched in a beautiful manner, in 

 imitation of an hand, a flower, the horn of a rein deer, &c. 

 &c. all the divifions terminating obtufely. 



In both ftates, while frefh and growing, it is of a pure 

 filvery white j and, when viewed between the eye and the 

 light, looks like, in fubftance and texture, the fineft virgin 

 wax. In decay it changes to a pale brown colour, withers, 

 and foon difappears. 



Grows in plenty, under the fir trees about Fixby-Hall, in, 

 September; I have not found it elfewhere. 



