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8. C. Invalii Cotton et Wakefield, sp. nov. 



Fungus dense ramosus, 4-5 cm. altus, rigidus, ochraceus. 

 Stipes brevis, albido-tomentosus, basi radiculis mycelialibus 

 albis vel flavidis instructus. Rami tenues, breves, cylindrici, 

 erecti, laeves, apicibus acutis, intus solidi, albido. Hyphae irregu- 

 lares 5-10/^ diametro, laxe intertextae. Basidia 30-40 x 7-9/u,, 

 intus granulosa; sterigmata4,erecta. S^ome copiosae, ochraceae, 

 obovatae, basi leviter incurvatae, echinulatae, 7-9 x ^fx. 



Habitat. On the ground amongst leaves in thick plantations 

 of spruce, larch, etc. Inval, Haslemere, E. W. Swanton, 

 1905-1908. 



Plants solitary or gregarious, branched, forming dense com- 

 pact, almost spherical tufts, 4-5 cm. high, tough, rather rigid, 

 deep ochre in colour; smell slightly pungent, taste faint, 

 hardly bitter. Stem more or less distinct, short, often woolly, 

 with white or yellowish rooting strands. Branching irregular, 

 frequent, axils acute; branches slender, short, uneven, cylin- 

 drical, erect, smooth, solid, apices attenuated and pointed. 

 Flesh white. Internal structure of irregular, wavy filamentous 

 hyphae, 5-iOjLt in diameter, loosely interwoven and running, 

 equally in each direction. Basidia conspicuous, 30-40 x 7-9/Lt, 

 contents finely granular ; sterigmata 4, erect. Spores abundant, 

 yellow, pip-shaped, slightly incurved at the base, echinulate, 

 7-9 X 4/u, (average 8 x 4jLt). 



This species, which is obviously very rare in Britain, has 

 been sent to us repeatedly from the spruce plantations at 

 Inval, near Haslemere, by Mr. E. W. Swanton. It is perfectly 

 distinct from all other species we have received and being 

 unable to place it with certainty in any Continental species 

 we have been compelled to describe it as new. The plant is 

 closely allied to C. abietina and C. flaccida. From the former 

 it differs in not turning green when bruised and retaining its 

 deep bright colour when dried, and from the latter in its stouter 

 form, more rigid habit, and larger and more deeply coloured 

 spores. 



2. Plants %>ariously coloured, spores hyaline, 

 [a) Plants white. 



9. C. CRISTAT.\ Fr., Syst. Myc. i. p. 473. 



C. cristata Pers., Syn. p. 591; Ramaria cristata Holmsk., 

 Beata ruris, 1790, p. 92; Ramaria ornithopodioides Holmsk., 

 ibid. p. 26; Clavaria fallax Pers., Comment, p. 48; C. fallax 

 var. cristata Pers., ibid.; C. trichopus Pers., Comment, p. 50; 

 C. albida Schaeff., Icon. Fung. tab. 170; Clavulina cristata 

 Schroet., Pilz. Schles. i. p. 442. 



