H4 An HISTORY of FUNGUSSES, 



CXLII. CLAVARIA ramis ramofis inaqualibus luteis. Sp. PL 1654. 



mufcoides. Schcef. Fung, t. [73. Sterb. Tbeat. t. i'i. B. Ray Angl. 



t- 24, fig. 7. Hudjon Angl 640, 8. Relhan Flor. 468, 

 No- 977 ■• Lightfoot, Scot- 1062, 9. Bitlliard, pi. zb^ 



FORKED CLAVARIA. 



T A B.' CXIV. 



r T A HIS, from a brown fibrous root, fends up the plants fome- 

 "*■ times iingle, as b. c. d. fometimes they rife in clutters or 

 bundles, from a fmall contracted bafe, as at a- in both cafes 

 the branches are divided, in a fubdicholomofe order, and always 

 with a forked termination. Sometimes the grains of thefe 

 terminal forks are of equal, fometimes of unequal length ; 

 fometimes they diverge at their origin, and converge near the 

 point. The whole plant is of a fine gold colour while frefh, 

 turning brown in decay. It varies in height from one to four 

 or five inches. 



It is a very common plant in cold dry pafture grounds, 

 about Halifax, in September and Oftober. 



I have ieen large luxuriant fpecimens of this plant, the fize 

 of a man's fift; the branches much fwelled at the divarications, 

 fhort, and much entangled together, but all united at the 

 bale, and iffuing from one fmall root. 



