British Clavariae. A. D. Cotton & E. M. Wakefield. 171 



composed of fine filaments, densely packed, slightly interwoven, 

 3-6)u, in diameter, with vesicular ends io-12/x in diameter, 

 not pseudoparenchymatous in transverse section ; large crystals 

 present in abundance in the tissue, Basidia not conspicuous, 

 40-50 X 8-9 /Lt, contents granular; sterigmata 2. Spores deep 

 ochraccous or even orange in the mass, copious, obliquely 

 fusiform or pip-shaped, markedly aculeate. 14-20 x 6-8/11 

 (average 15-16 x 6-y ix). 



This species is clearly allied to C. fonnosa, but it is distin- 

 guished from it and still more from C. flava by its darker hue, 

 and by the deeply coloured and distinctly aculeate spores. On 

 drying it becomes nearly black in colour, whereas C. fonnosa 

 and C. flava remain pale, and are somewhat more brittle. It is 

 not possible to identify this species with Fries' C. aurca, the 

 spores being quite different from those of an authentic specimen 

 of C. aurea in the Kew Herbarium: moreover among all the 

 specimens so named from the Continent not one has been found 

 agreeing with C. Broomei. 



There can be no question that the specimens forwarded by 

 Mr. Harold Murray agree with those collected by Broome in 

 1866. These latter were named C. formosa by Berkeley, and 

 were distributed under this name by M. C. Cooke in Fungi 

 Britannici Exsiccati (No. 230 and Ed. 2, No. 411). The first 

 record of C. formosa as British was made by Berkeley and 

 Broome in 1865 (Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. ser. iii. 15, 1865, 

 p. 321, No. 1031). It was based on specimens collected by 

 Broome at Bathford Down, but although these specimens 

 have not been found, from the description of the spores as 

 "buff, broadly fusiform, granulated," there is little doubt that 

 the species in question was C. Broomei and not C. formosa. 



C. Baiaillei Maire (Ann. Myc. xi. 1913, p. 351) has also 

 verrucose spores, but they are smaller and paler than those 

 of the present species, and the plant differs in the violet colour 

 of the branches. C. testaceo-flava Bres. is distinguished by the 

 smaller basidia and spores, and by the fact that the spores 

 are minutely granular, not distinctly aculeate. 



3. C. BOTRYTis Fr., Syst. Myc. i. p. 466; Bourdot & Galziu' 



in Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. xxvi. 1910, p. 213; Maire in 



Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. xxvii. 1911, p. 449. 



C. botrytis Pers., Comment, p. 42; C. plcbcja Wulf., in Jacq. 



Misc. Aust. 2, p. loi, tab. 13; Ramaria coralloides apicibus 



purpitreis Holmsk., Beata ruris, 1790, p. 117; C. acroporphyria 



Schaeff., Icon. Fung. tab. 176; C. rufescens Schaeff., ibid. tab. 



288; C. purpiirascens Paulet, Traite des champ, tab. 194, fig. 6. 



Illustrations: Pers., loc. cit. tab. 3, fig. 3; Atkinson, 



