38 Transacti07is. 



59. Clavaria, Fries. 



Sporophore erect, club-shaped or fusiform, or variously and 

 ofteD excessively branched, axils of branches often rounded ; 

 spores colourless or coloured. Basidia two- or four-spored. 



Clavaria, Fries, Syst. Myc, i, p. 465. 



Usually terrestrial, rarely growing on wood. Calocera super- 

 ficially resembles the branched species of Clavaria, but differs 

 in the partly gelatinous consistency and different structure of 

 the basidia. Lachnocladium differs in tough consistency and in 

 the branches being flattened and having the hymenium on one 

 side only. 



* Spore/i ochraceous or yellow. 



Clavaria flaccida. Fries, Syst. Myc, i, p. 471 ; Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, 

 p. 615 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 7972. 



Slender, very much branched, entirely ochraceous, stem very 

 short, branches crowded, repeatedly forked, upper axils rounded 

 and the acute terminal branchlets converging ; spores broadly 

 elliptical, ochraceous, 4-5 x 3 /x.. 



On the ground in woods among moss, &c. Sometimes 

 growing on masses of dead leaves, &c. Northern Island, New 

 Zealand. Europe. 



Varying from 2-5 cm. high ; colour clear ochraceous without 

 any tinge of brown ; does not become green when bruised ; 

 terminal branchlets converging like callipers ; mycelium whitish, 

 creeping over leaves, &c. ; stem sometimes 2 cm. long, at others 

 almost obsolete. 



Clavaria crispnla, Fries, Syst. Myc, i, p. 470 ; Hdbk. N.Z. 

 Flora, p. 615 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 7991 ; Cooke, Austr. Fimg., 

 p. 201. 



Pale yellow-brown or tan-colour, becoming ochraceous ; stem 

 rather slender, with downy rooting strands of mycelium, 4-7 cm. 

 high ; - branches numerous, wavy, spreading, repeatedly divid- 

 ing, terminal branchlets acute, spreading ; spores pale-yellow, 

 elliptical, 5 x 3 /x. 



On the ground, at base of trunks, &c. Northern Island, New 

 Zealand. Western Australia, Europe, United States, Brazil. 



Stem thin ; branches numerous, lax, rather wavy or flexuous. 



** Spores hyaline. 



Clavaria flava, Schseffer, Fung. Bavar., tab. 175 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, 

 no. 7929 ; Cooke, Austr. Fung., p. 198. Syn., Clavaria lutea. 

 Hook., Fl. N.Z., ii, p. 185 ; Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, p. 614. 



Stem stout, short, white, breaking up into numerous 

 rounded, tapering, crowded, even-topped, yellow branches. 



