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8-14 cm. high ; spores elliptical, hyaline or with a slight tinge 

 of yellow, 8-10 x 4-5 /a. 



On the ground, in woods. New Zealand. Victoria, Queens- 

 land, Europe, United States. 



Edible, as are all known species of Clavaria. Brittle ; stem 

 often 2-3 cm. thick ; forming dense tufts of crowded branches ; 

 yellow colour usually most pronounced at the tips of the 

 branches. 



Clavaria arhorescens. Berk., Fl. N.Z., ii, p. 186 ; Hdbk. N.Z. 

 Flora, 614 ; Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 8022. 



Amethyst-colour ; stem slightty wavy, 2-3 cm. high, slightly 

 thickened upwards, slender, dividing at the apex into a few 

 main branches that bear short fastigiate branchlets at their 

 tips ; spores hyaline, elliptical, 6 x 4 /a. 



On the ground. Bay of Islands, Northern Island, New Zea- 

 land. 



Berkeley considers this species as showing affinity with 

 Clavaria macropus. To me it appears to resemble a slender 

 form of C. cinerea. 



Clavaria colensoi. Berk., Fl. N.Z., ii, p. 186 ; Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, 

 p. 615 ; Sacc, Svll. vi, no. 8039 ; Cooke, Austr. Fung., 

 p. 201. 



Stem compressed, short, breaking up into several primary 

 branches, which in turn become inflated at the apex and bear 

 several slender secondary branchlets divided at the acute tips, 

 2-3 cm. high ; spores elliptical, 5 x 3 /x. 



On dead wood and on the ground. Northern Island, New 

 Zealand. Queensland. 



All the branches have a tendency to become flattened, axils 

 of branches rounded. The swollen apices of the branches are 

 sometimes more or less excavated and the branchlets originate 

 from the margin of the cup. 



No account is given in the original description as to the 

 colour of the plant. The following is Berkeley's description of 

 this species : " About 1 in. high, attached to the soft decayed 

 wood by a few short towy fibres, which, like the whole plant, 

 are brown when dry. Stem mostly compressed, branched from 

 the base or a little above it, repeatedly forked ; branches sub- 

 fastigiate, delicate ; apices forked, very acute. Closely allied 

 to C. delicata, but the brown fibres by which it is attached, and 

 other points, forbid its association with that species, of which I 

 have authentic specimens from Fries." (Fl. N.Z., ii, p. 186.) 



