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digitate or clustered manner.* The last is less divided, slender, 
forked, and with the branches curved. It is the less common of 
the two. 
The violet species is Clavaria amethystina. It is very brittle, 
variable in size, and much branched. We have no other species 
with which it can be confounded. 
Clavaria botrytis has a thick fleshy stem, the upper portion divi- 
ded into a number of swollen branches, which are red at the tips. 
It has been found in woods, but is very rare. 
This ends the white spored species. 
Those having coloured spores are eightinnumber. One of the 
rarest and most beautiful is Clavaria erocea, which is of a bright 
saffron yellow, small in size, slender with crowded branches, and 
has only been found in Somersetshire. 
Clavaria grisea has a dirty white, thick stem, divided above 
into a few thick, blunt wrinkled branches, of a dingy grey colour. 
It is not at all a handsome or attractive species, and is rather 
uncommon. It may be known by its brownish spores from other 
species of a similar colour. 
Fig. 2. Clavaria abietina (fig. 2) has a very 
characteristic habit of its own, and is 
not uncommon under fir trees. It is of 
an ochrey colour, resembling Scotch 
snuff, very much branched and sub- 
divided, but the branches and branch- 
lets are all erect, giving the plant a 
very neat appearance. It sometimes 
turns green when bruised. 
Another species possesses in a less 
degree this erect habit. It is Clavaria 
stricta, a species which has occurred in 
: Buckinghamshire, found by Mr. Britten, and is not uncommon 
in gardens.t It is of a pallid yellowish colour, very much 
branched, turning brown when bruised. 
* Extremely plentiful on our Commons during the late autumn; Nap- 
hill Common, &c.—Ep. ‘ 
+ Occurred in great abundance in the autumn of 1865 on the earth sur- 
rounding an old sawpit in Hearnton Wood, West Wycombe; and in 
1866 in the Hughenden Woods.—Eb. 
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