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HISTORY of FUNGUSSES, 



GROWING about HALIFAX. 



GENUS VIII. 



C L A V A R I A. 



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indivifcc. 



CXXXVI. CLAVARIA clavceformis fimplijjima. Sp. PL 1651. Schaef. 



fiftilaris. Fung, t.iji. Vaill. Paris, t.j,Jig.$. Micb. Gen- t. 5, 



6, 7, 9, 10, 1 1. Scbeuchzar Iter, alp 1, p. 29, t. 3, Jig. 3. 



SIMPLE CLAVARIA. 



TAB. CX. 



TT has a brown fibrous root, which produces fometimes one 

 ■*■ fingle, fometimes a great number of, club-ihapen plants. 

 It varies extremely in fize and colour; its height is generally 

 two or three inches, its thicknefs about that of a duck's quill. 

 Sometimes it is of a pure white, but varies through all the 

 gradations of yellow, from a pale tinge to a deep ftrong golden 

 or orange colour. It is of a waxlike fubftance, eafily breaking 

 between the fingers. The feperate plants are moft commonly 

 fimple, and terminate in an obtufe point ; but they are fome- 

 times bifid or forked, as expreffed in the figure. 



On moors amongft mofs, where it generally grows fingle, I 

 have feen fpecimens four or five inches high. It is a very 

 common plant on dry banks and in barren pafture grounds, 

 about Halifax. Authors have made many imaginary fpecies, from 

 the various appearances of this plant. Vid. Hudson's Flora 

 Angelica, p. 638. 



