ii2 An HISTORY of FUNGUSSES, 



CXXXIX. CLAVARIA ftipite elongata, capillaria, c'lavula terminali fub-elongata 

 gyrans. cylindrica terminis utroque oblongata. Relban Flor. App. oh. p. 29. 



No. 1 102. 



TWISTED 



CLAVARIA. 



TAB. cxn. 



FIG. I. 



IT adheres to fmall twigs and branches of trees, when fallen in moid 

 places and become putrid. It adheres to them by the curved bafe 

 of the Item, without vifible fibres. The ftem is the thicknefs of an 

 hair, and more than half an inch long; it is of a blackifh colour 

 under the eye, but between the eye and the light, of a beautiful crim- 

 fon ; it is upright and fmooth while the plant is in vigour, foon after it 

 is taken> up it dries, becomes comprefTed and twitted, as at a. The 

 club is white, half an inch long, obtufe above and below, as exprefled 

 on the plate. It is magnified, in different degrees, at b. b. 



I gathered thefe fpecimens in a moid place, near Lee-Beck, half a 

 mile from Halifax, October 22, 1788. 



CXL. CLAVARIA ramis confertis ramojijfimis fajligiotis obtufis luteis. Sp. 

 afiigiata. PI- 1652. Schcef.Fung. t. 270, 172, 174. Ray Syn. t. 24, fig. 5. 



LOW 



CLAVARIA. 



TAB. CXII. 



F I G. II. 



THIS arifes fingly or in clufters, from a very fmall root, which is 

 furnifhed with numerous downy fibres. The branches are fmall 

 near the bafe, increafing in thicknefs upwards, and, in their afcent, are 

 divided and fubdivided into numerous branches, all of which are 

 lopped off* at top, with a broad termination, which is often decorated 

 with fmall rifing points round the margin. Sometimes the margin is 

 dentated or crenated, it is moft commonly of a yellow or golden 

 colour, but fometimes varies to white or purple. 



Grows in barren paftures, about Halifax. Does not the figure 



in Vaill. Paris, t. 8. fig. 4. which he calls Clavaria coralloides, belong 

 to this plant? 



