GROWING about HALIFAX. 113 



CLAVARIA ramis confertis ramojiffimis inoequalibus. Sp. PL CXLI. 

 1652. Scbaf. Fung. t. 17 j, 176, 177, 285, 288. fount cora!/si ^ 

 Injl. t. 332, fig. B. Sterb. Theat. t.11, Jig. A. C. D. 



CORAL CLAVARIA. 



TAB. CXIII. 



/ "T" S HIS, from one common root, which is brown and fur- 

 -*■ nifhed with many fibres, fends up numerous branches, 

 large at the bafe, and repeatedly divided and fubdivided into 

 innumerable leffer ones, each of which terminates at top 

 in three or four tooth-like fegments, of equal height. The 

 whole plant is fometimes as large as a Colefore. 



It varies greatly in colour, being white, purple, yellow, or 

 olive-coloured; the laft of which is moil frequent in this 

 neighbourhood. 



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Grows in feveral woods about Halifax, in October. 



Lightfoot fays, it is reputed to be one of the befl of the 

 fungus tribe, for the Table % and is eaten by the Germans, under 

 the name of Ziegenbert. 



The yellow fpecimen figured on my plate, at c. has been 

 coniidered as a variety of this plant, (See Fail/. Paris) but I 

 think it belongs to the Clavaria jojligiota, as before men- 

 tioned. 



