CRYPTOGAMIA,-FUNGI.- Clavatia.. (a) Stem 
, branched. 
Park ‘which had been shivered by lightning, I found it in the 
matted state mentioned by Mr. Woodward: 6 seca oe on 
Var. 8, Hudson, is the Boletus rangiferinus, = 
The Clavaria Hypoxylon, and digitata, ran so much into 
one another, that I do not see how it is possible to establish 
them as distinct bagi but have at.present kept them separate 
in compliance with the opinions of Linnzus, Haller, Hudson, 
Lightfoot, Bulliard, &c. FOE Seer aL , 
The Rev. Mr, Dickenson lately mentioned to me some cu. 
rious observations made by Dr. Waller upon these species, which 
‘seem decisive, ‘The Dr, says that the plants described by Lin- 
neus under the names of Clavaria hypoxylon, Clav. digitata, 
and Clav, ophioglossoides are but one and-the same plant, which 
he proposes to call Clavaria villosa. The Clav, hypoxylon as 
described by Linnzus is the most common appearance of the 
_ Matz plant... The Clay. digitata is the most common appearance 
_ of the Femate plant; and the Clay. ophioglossoides is only a 
variety Of the female,-"): 3-3 Se = 
_ With regard to the Clay. digitata, so called by Linn, and 
placed by him amongst the branched Clavarias, Dr. Waller 
observes that Linnzus has been mistaken in his application of 
the word digitatus, as by Tournefort, Vaillant and others, the 
word has been applied to two female varieties of the plant, not 
to signify that they were branched, but because their single head 
in figure and size bore a resemblance to a finger, 
The Clav. digitata, or female plant begins to spring at the 
same time, (about the end of September) and in the same place, 
_(in shady woods) with the male; but grows only to about half 
its height. Though they grow always in clusters 6 si the 
stumps of the same tree, yet they never both proceed from the 
same root. After the male plant has shed its pollen in Novem- 
ber, it continues to decay till spring, when it withers quite 
away ; whereas the female continues to grow vigorously till 
about the middle of April, when the head, the seeds in it being 
ripe, bursts in several places and falls off. : 
These facts sufficiently shew the distinction between the sexes. 
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Cr. But little branched ; head conical, supported on a cupressi« 
stem, 
: Mich. 55. 2-Bolt, 129. & : 
This plant seems to me to differ yery essentially from the _ 
Cl. digitata: It is generally simple, or only once divided. 
Stem about. an inch high, supporting a head about the same 
length, which is always conical, resembling a cypress trec in 
_ miniature. Mr. Woopwarn. I had arranged this as a variety 
of the Cl. hypoxylon, but now place it as a distinct species on 
Mr, Woodward's authority, who reckons it, as he does the 
others of this tribe, as belonging to the genus Spheria, and 
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