Byitish Clavariac. A. D. Cotlon & E. M. Wakefield. 189 



27. C. INCARNATA Weium., Hymcno- et Gasteromycetes, 1836, 



p. 510- 



Illustrations: None published. 



Plants simple, solitary or gregarious, fragile, 2-3-5 cm. high, 

 flesh-coloured to pale chocolate; smell slight, pleasant. 

 Clubs slender, 2-2-5 "^i^^- thick, cylindrical or compressed, 

 even or slightly rugose, hollow, apex blunt. Stem more or less 

 distinct. Flesh coloured, pale or darker than the club, hiternal 

 structure of frequently septate hyphae, loosely interwoven, with 

 trumpet-shaped expansions in the sub-hymenial layer, cells 

 50-100 X 5-iOjLt, pseudoparenchymatous in transverse section. 

 Basidia 35-40 x y-8 (-10) /x, contents finely granular; sterig- 

 mata 4, erect. Spores abundant, hyaline, smooth, ovoid, 

 7-10 X 6-8 /x (average 8 x 5/x), contents granular. 



Habitat. On the ground. Very rare. Specimens from 

 Whitby and Halifax (C. Crossland, 1908); ? Haslemere 

 (E. M. W., 1913). 



Distinguished from C. purpurea by the paler colour, smaller 

 size, and slightly larger spores. C. rosea differs in its brighter, 

 rose-pink colour. 



{d) Plants yellow. 



28. C. iNAEQUALis Fr., Syst. Myc. i. p. 481; Cotton in Trans. 



Brit. Myc. Soc. ii. 1906, pp. 163-165, and iii. 1907, 

 P- 33- 



C. inaequalis Miiller, Fl. Dan. tab. 836, fig. i ; C. polymorpha 

 rufa Miill. Fl. Dan. tab. 775, fig. i; C. rufa Pers., Comment, 

 p. 71; C. fasciculata Villars, Hist. PI. Dauph. iv. 1789, p. 1052; 

 C. bifurca Bull.. Ch. Fr. tab. 264; C. angustata Pers., Comment, 

 p. 72; C. vcrmiculata Sow., Col. Fig. tab. 253, p.p.; C. dissi- 

 pabilis Britz., Hymenomycet. aus Siidbayern, 1885, p. 289; C. 

 similis Boud. et Pat., Journ. de Bot. ii. 1888, p. 446. 



Illustrations: Flor. Dan. tab. 836, fig. i; Boud. et Pat., 

 loc. cit. tab. 8, fig. i; Britzelmayr, loc. cit. fig. 28; Bulliard, 

 loc. cit.; Cotton in Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. iii. tab. 11, fig. B 

 (spores); Greville, Scott. Crypt. Flor. i. tab. 37 {C. fragilis); 

 Massee, Brit. Fung. Flor. i. p. 74, fig. 4; Pers., Comm. tab. i, 

 fig. 3 bis [C. angustata) ; Sowerby, Col. Fig. tab. 253 (lower 



figs-)- 



Plants simple, or very rarely with one or two branchlets, 

 4-7-5 cm. high, usually in small groups but occasionally single. 

 Clubs cylindrical or flattened, smooth or with one or more 

 furrows, bright yellow to rich orange, apex obtuse or pointed. 

 Stem not distinct. Flesh whitish, fibrous. Basidia conspicuous, 



M. s. 8 



