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CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. Clavaria. (2) Stem with- 
out a Head. 
and 1 or 2 in diameter towards the top. The shape in the 
larger specimens is very much like that of a long pear. 
Var. 2. Yellow or orange; solid, nearly cylindrical, taper- 
ing to a point. ies = dae 
Scheff. 171-Schmidel 4, 2~Bolt. 110, 1. 4.5.6, from the 
left hand-possibly. Mich.87. 5. 6. 9-Gled.-1. Clavaria, 
f- 1. and Mich. 87. 11-Gled. 1. Clavaria f. 2. 
Cl. pistillaris. 8 Hups. , 
Dirty buff, thick as a thick reed at the bottom, gradually 
swelling to the diameter of an inch at top; 5 inches high, sure 
face wrinkled, pitted, and puffedout. 
Amongst leaves and moss under trees, in Coplar Wood, He- 
refordshire, Mr. SrackHouse. — BAN OS 
Var. 3. Small, sharp pointed, solid, yellow. 
‘fs Bull. 463.4. 
Not more than j an inch high. 
‘On a rotten stump at Edgbaston. Sept. 
Var. 4. Whitish, solid, nearly cylindrical, tapesing to a 
point. : 
Schmidel 5. 1-Bolt. 110, the 2d and 3d from the left hand- 
Fl. dan. 837. 1. and 775«2-Scheuch, it. i. 3. 8-Mich. 
87. 12-Gled. 1. Clavar f. 5. 
Clav. wermiculata. LIGHTFOOT. : , 
~ Woods and heaths in.dry soil. ES Oct. 
Var. 5. Dull yellow, solid, either entire and blunt, or cloven 
and tapering at the end. my 4 ; 
Buil. 264. ft D : 
Yellow, brittle, smooth, when young ‘undivided, flatted, 
grooved becoming forked with age; terminating in a taper 
point. Burt. soe sae ee! 
Clav. bifurca. Bull. Cl. vermicularis. Lightf. Grows 
on the ground. ier} ae 
‘Var. 6. Yellow, smooth, cylindrical ; when old forked at 
Faill. 8. 4. * =f et : 
On rotten wood, amongst moss, in Edgbaston piepeatinns: 
oS ug: 
‘The plants of this and the following species were united by 
Linnzus and Hudson, under the name of Cl. pistillaris, but Hal- 
ler, and after him Lightfoot, very properly divided them ; for 
want, however, of attending to the circumstance of the indivi- 
duals being solid, or hollow, a circumstance which seems inva- 
