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CLAVARIA clavata petiolata. CXXXVH. 



gracilis. 



SLENDER CLAVARIA. 



TAB. CXI. FIG. I. 



T Believe this plant has been coniidered as a variety of the laft, 

 -*■ but is at once diftinguifhed, by having a foot-ftalk effen- 

 tially different, in colour and texture, from the club which it 

 fuftains. The club is an inch in length, of a duiky white, 

 and, like the other Clavaria, is of a wax-like appearance. 

 The item is half an inch long ; it is fmooth, pellucid, and of 

 a colour a little darker than the ftem-. The plant never grows 

 larger than is expreffed in the figure, a- is a plant magnified. 



b. a longitudinal fe&ion of the fame. Grows in ihady places 



in garden-ground, which has lately been dug; — in Mrs. Gay- 

 gill's garden, at Sha, abundantly; where I gathered the • 

 ipecimens here figured and defcribed, in October, 1786. 



CLAVARIA clavata intigerrima comprejfa obtiifa. Sp. PI. CXXXVIII. 

 1652. Scheef. Fung. t. 327. Hudfon Angl. 638, 3. ophioglof. 

 Relkan, Flor. 467, No. 974. Lightfoot, Scot- 'ioi}S, 4. J '° ides - 



BLACK CLAVARIA. 



TAB. CXI. F I G. II. 



/ ~y ,, HIS has a fmall hard root, furnifhed with fhort fibres. 

 -"■ The plant is two or three inches high, (lender towards 

 the root ; the clubbed part greatly increafing in thicknefs, and 

 terminates very bluntly at the top. While young it is folid with- 

 in, and fmooth on the outfide -, as it advances in growth it be- 

 comes hollow within, as at a- afterwards the fubftance fhrinks, 

 and the furface becomes depreffed, fulcated, or wrinkled. The 

 colour is at all times black on the outfide, the infide white. 



Grows in moift paftures, amongft grafs, in feveral places 



about Halifax- 



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