170 Transactions British Mycological Society. 



and one which owing to the scarcity of authentic material and 

 meagreness of the original descriptions it is perhaps impossible 

 to solve. There can be little doubt that the plant here referred 

 to as C. flava is the same as that described by Persoon under 

 the same name, and in this view we have the support of Maire 

 (loc. cit.). In this country it has been usually referred to as 

 C. aiirea, an error which arose largely as the result of Fries' 

 statement that C. aurea differed from C. flava in its ochraceous 

 spores. This was incorrect, as in all the species of this section 

 the spores are coloured, though in some species more so than 

 in others. 



With regard to C. aiirca it is difficult to dogmatise as to its 

 identity. The English specimens so named consist as stated 

 above for the most part of C. flava, but a few which as far as 

 can be seen from herbarium material only difier in possessing 

 shorter spores may be distinct also in other characters, and 

 these may possibly represent the C. aurea of Fries. Until the 

 Swedish species of Clavaria have been critically worked out 

 it is advisable not to attempt to describe the plant or list the 

 species for Britain. 



2. C. Broomei Cotton ct Wakefield, sp. nov. 



Sporoplionim ramosum, circa 5-8 cm. altum, 2-4 cm. dia- 

 metro, haud fragile, ochraceo-aurantiacum, apicibus aurantiacis, 

 tactu brunnescens, basi albidum. Stipes brevis, albidus, tactu 

 rubescens, vix radicans. Ramuli subdichotomi, cylindrici vel 

 compressi, breves, solidi, erecti, laeves vel rugulosi, apicibus 

 compressis. Caro solida, alba, demmn vinosa. Hyphae 3-6/>t 

 diametro, dense aggregatae. Basidia 40-50 x S-g/x, granulosa, 

 2-sterigmatica. Sporae copiosae, fulvo-ochraceae, oblique fusi- 

 formes, aculeatae, 14-20 x 6-8/^t. 



Habitat. Ad terram in silvis. Warleigh Common, near 

 Bath, C. E. Broome, 1866 ; Batheaston, C. E. Broome ; Meathop 

 Fell, near Grange, Westmorland, chiefly under Holly, collected 

 by J. Wilfrid Jackson, and forwarded by Harold Murray, 1909 

 and 1911. 



Plants somewhat branched, medium to large, 5-8 cm. high, 

 2-4 cm. across, rather tough, ochraceous orange, tips darker 

 orange, turning brown easily on bruising, base white or pinkish; 

 smell slight, not pleasant, taste bitter. Stem short, not swollen, 

 white, becoming pinkish on bruising; rooting base small. 

 Branching irregular or somewhat dichotomous, slight below, 

 more frequent above, axils not rounded; branches cylindrical 

 or flattened, short, solid, fairly erect, smooth, or the larger 

 branches much wrinkled, tips flattened. Flesh solid, white, 

 becoming vinous later, especially below. Internal structure 



