BRANCHED CLAVARIAS. 81 
genus off their blossoms? Or how would you like to be out in a 
thick drizzling rain at 11.30 p.m. in October, throwing the gleams 
of your lamp on the ivy blossoms which then adorn the Park wall 
below the Rye, and detecting the little Chestnut Moths holding 
high festival? We have done this often, and one night took 
home forty specimens, comprising sixteen or seventeen species. 
We have them now in our cabinet, and as we look them over, 
each tells its own tale, forms in fact, a little volume in a large 
library, and it speaks to us most of friends that are gone, who 
shared with us the Pleasures of Moth Hunting. 
Hy. Univer. 
Hraacied Clavavrias. 
AVING, in the last number, briefly characterised the British 
species of Clavaria which have the clubs simple and undivi-: 
ded, it will be expected of me that I render the account complete 
by an enumeration of the branched species. Nothing is so essen- 
tial for a satisfactory determination of the larger fungi as good 
faithful figures. In the absence of these I must endeavour to 
make the distinctions as plain as I can. 
If specimens of Clavaria are laid upon a piece of dull black 
paper over-night, in the morning the paper around the specimen 
will be found discoloured, frosted, or more or less sprinkled with 
the spores which the Clavaria has shed. These will either be 
_ quite white or yellow, brown, or some similar tint. The larger 
number of British species have white spores. Let us accept this 
_ as a distinction whereby to separate the branched species into two 
sections. 
First, those which possess white spores, of which there are ten 
Species; four of these are white, two yellow, two greyish or 
brown, one violet, and one whitish, with red tips. To commence 
with the largest group, the white species may be thus distin- 
guished. 
