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(e) Plants ochraceous to brownish. 



33. C. PiSTiLLARis Fr., Syst. Myc. i. p. 477. 



C. pistillaris Linn., Flor. Suec. p. 456, No. 1266 (1755); 

 Fungus clavatus Bocc. ex Fries, loc. cit.; C. major Mich., 

 Gen. Plant, tab. Sy, fig. i ; C. herculeana Lightfoot, Fl. Scot. ii. 

 1777, p. 1056; Pers., Comment, p. 63; C. pulvinata Pers., 

 Comment, p. 65. 



Illustrations: Numerous. Atkinson, Mushrooms, p. 202, 

 fig. 203; Bulliard, Ch. Fr. tab. 244; Hussey, lUustr. Brit. 

 Mycol. i. tab. 62; Massee, Brit. Fung. Flor. i. p. 74, fig. 8; 

 Sovverby, Col. Fig. tab. 277; Migula in Thome, Flora von 

 Deutschl. iii. 2, i, tab. 24; Weberbauer, Pilze, tab. 11, fig. 3. 



Plants simple, solitary, clavate or obovate, variable in size, 

 10-30 cm. high, 2-5-5 cm. thick at the widest part. Clubs 

 minutely velvety, whitish then dingy ochraceous, finally dusky 

 brown, stuffed. Stem not distinct. Flesh whitish, loose and 

 cottony in the centre. Basidia about 70/^ long, with 2-4 

 sterigmata. Spores smooth, ochraceous in the mass, almost 

 hyaline by transmitted light, elliptic-oblong, with oblique 

 basal apiculus, 12-16 x 7-8^1. 



Habitat. On the ground in woods. Rather rare and 

 sporadic. 



Easily distinguished by the large, thick, club-shaped sporo- 

 phores. 



34. C. LiGULA Fr., Syst. Myc. i. p. 477. 



C. ligula Schaeff., Icon. Fung. tab. 171; C. caespitosa'S!^vXi., 

 in Jacq. Misc. 2, 1781, p. 98, tab. 12, fig. 2; C. pulvinata Pers., 

 Comment, p. 65; C. luteola Pers., Comment, p. 66. 



Illustrations: Flor. Dan. tab. 837, fig. i; Schaeff., loc. cit.; 

 Migula in Thome, Flora von Deutschl. iii. 2, i, tab. 24 b, fig. i; 

 Weberbauer, Pilze, tab. 11, fig. 4. 



Plants simple, clavate, 5-10 cm. high, up to 1-25 cm. thick 

 above, much narrowed and downy towards the base, ochraceous 

 with a rufescent tinge, fragile, apex rounded. Stem not distinct 

 from the club. Flesh solid. Basidia conspicuous, 40 x 6-8 /z; 

 sterigmata 4. Spores smooth, hyaline, cylindrical or very 

 narrowly elliptical, with a curved basal apiculus, 11-14 x ^ix. 



Habitat. Attached by the downy base to leaves, twigs, etc., 

 lying on the ground in woods. Very rare. Specimen from 

 Duncombe Park near Helmsley (Y. N. U. Foray, Sept. 1903). 



This species is allied to C. pistillaris, but differs in the flattened 

 and much smaller clubs and pale colour. It is apparently 

 very rare in Britain as no specimens have been received during 



