CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGT. Clavaria. (3) Stem 
branched. . 
‘Whether this be a variety of the preceding, or a distinct 
re seems doubtful. The principal difference is, that in the 
avaria coralloides the whole plant issues out of one thick and 
solid stem, which afterwards divides and sub-divides into very 
numerous branches ; but in this species they seem very slightly, 
if at all, connected at the base, where the distinct stems are 
much attenuated, and are either simple or slightly branched, 
and lopped at the'top.' From these circumstances it may be 
thought to approach, the Clavaria pistillaris, but I should con- 
sider it as distinct from both. . Vaill. 8. 4. probably belongs to 
this as Bolton supposes. Mr. Woopwarp. Branches thickest 
upwards, lopped and flat at the ends. Yellow, white, or purple, 
full 1 to 3 inches high, and thick as a crow ora raven quill. 
Bott. Licutr. Scuarr. It is evident from the inspection of 
the various figures, that some have been drawn, as Bolt. 112. 2, 
from plants in a young state. When something older, pointed 
teeth shoot out fromthe ends, and when older still these be 
larger and sometimes branched, so that the latter part of the 
Linnzan character, included in a parenthesis, would be better 
omitted, Perhaps M. Bulliard is right in considering the fasti- 
giata as only a flat-topped variety of the coralloides. _- 
Woods and pastures, Aug.—Oct, 
Cx. Branches flattish, grooved, the ends fringed ; grey, 
changing to black brown. 
Bull, 452. 2. 
Substance soft, but elastic ; grows bundled together like co- 
ralline ; about 2 inches high. Differs from the Cl, coralloides 
and Cl. fastigata in the longitudinal grooves, but is perhaps not 
specifically distinct. : 
Found by Dr. Sibthorpe in Shotover Plantations, Oxford- 
shire. _Jan. 
Cx. Pale yellow, repeatedly branched, taper-pointed, 
unequal. 
Scheff. 173~Bolt. 114—Bull. 358, A. BAR. Syn. 24.7, at 
‘p. 479-EL. dan. 836. 2-Pet. gaz. 93. 4, 5-Gesn. ap. 
Cord. ic. @u.172153, 
This differs from both the preceding in having the extremi- 
ties of the branches sharply pointed, but it agrees with the fas- 
tigiata in being nearly distinct at the base, and with the coral- 
loides in being much branched. Mr. Woopwarp. Yellow or 
brown yellow, from 2 to 5 inches high, branches like some of 
the shrubby Lichens, the branches always affecting forked divi. 
sions, and terminating in pointed forks. Am not quite certain 
_ of my reference to Bulliard, but stillless certain that Mr. Bol- 
ton has rightly referred to Bull. 264. 
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