digita’ta. 
CRYPTOGAMIA.: FUNGI. Clavaria, (3) Stem 
a _ branched, | 
Heaths and dry woods. [Pendarvis, Cornwall Mr. Sracx. 
HOUSE-]. > parte . Sept. Oct. 
Ct. Black, thick, solid, conical, rough. | 
FI. dan. 900—Hoffm. crypt, i. 4. 2-Bull, 220-Bolt. 129. be 
Scheff. 328—Mich. 54. ord. 2, 4-Wieg. bs. 3. O« a 
Substance like cork, tending to a cylindrical figure ; black, 
white within, 1 to 2 inches high, } to 4 inch diameter, sometimes 
rather branched, white at the top when ‘young. Seeds lodged 
in little cells on the surface, mixed with a glary fluid. These 
cells are not very visible externally until the hairs fall off. Bot. 
Liarp. ‘This is always branched, several stems arising from 
the same thick base, which supplies the place of a root. If any 
of Bolton’s figures are intended to represent this, they are so ill 
executed as not to be safely quoted ; Mr. Woopwarp; who 
considers it as a Spheria, and dissatisfied, very justly, with the 
insufficiency of the Linnzan character, adopted by. Mr, Hudson, 
roposes the following. Spx. digitata, ramosa, ramis subsessili- — 
buscblon pis, apicibus obtusis. 
* On rotten wood. , Aug.—Nov. 
Hypox’ylon Cx, Very black, rough, compressed, powdery, branched, 
horned, or hand-shaped. 
Balt 129. 6. c, i.e. f-—Bull. 180-Wieg, obs. t. 3. f. 5—-Miche 
= 55. ord. 1.1.—Wale. n. 7-Pet, gaz. 67. 12-Batsch 160. 
From 1 to 3 inches high, and 3 to 4 across; very woolly 
when young, and very black; the tops tender and gelatinous 
whilst young, white, mealy; flesh white, fibrous, rather 
_ woody. The white tops turn brown and shrivel towards the 
end of winter, when the seeds ripen. Seeds in cells on the 
surface below the white part. 
~ On rotten wood. On»the stumps of alders which have been 
cut down 6 or 7 years, plentiful, and in almost every variety cf 
shape and size. Pool tail in Edgbaston Park. It may be found 
all the year, but not plentiful in the summer. The tubercles 
first appear below the white extremities, on a less white part, 
and they are black, = 
Var. 2. Flat, thin, inosculating ; but little hairy. 
“2 : FY. daz. 713-Mich. 66.3, 
_ No part broader than a packthread; but variously run inta 
one another, Mr. Woosenn LE a s . 
Between two thick oak planks which covered a well, Woop- 
warp. In @ similar situation over a well in a cellar at Mre 
Warltite’s at Wolverhampton. I have scen it 2 or 3 feet longs 
and between the bark and the wood of a large elm in Edgbaston 
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