CLAVABIA 705 



Clavaria (Vaill.) Fr. 



(Clava, a club.) 



Receptacle fleshy, or subcoriaceous, erect, branched, or simple and 

 clavate, smooth, or longitudinally striate. Hymenium even, amphi- 

 genous, absent in the stem-like portion of the simple clubs. Spores 

 white, or ochraceous, rarely reddish ochre or brownish; elliptical, 

 globose, subglobose, oboval, pip-shaped, pyriform, almond-shaped, 

 reniform, oblong, oblong elliptical, or subfusiform; smooth, punctate, 

 or verrucose ; basidia with 2-4-sterigmata. Cystidia none. Putrescent. 

 Growing on the ground, or on wood ; solitary, gregarious, caespitose, 

 or caespitoso-connate. 



I. Branched. 



A. Spores white, slightly coloured in no. 2402; 



basidia often with 2-sterigmata. 



*Growing on the ground. 



2392. C. coralloides (Linn.) Fr. (? = Clavaria cristata (Holmsk.) Fr. 

 sec. Cotton & Wakef.) Sow. Eng. Fung, t. 278. 



KopdXkiov, coral; eZ8o<?, like. 



R. 5-10 cm. high, white, repeatedly and irregularly much branched; 

 trunk short, rather thick, often hollow. Branches unequal, dilated 

 upwards; branchlets crowded, acute. Flesh white, brittle. Spores 

 "white, elliptical, subglobose, 6-8 x 4-5 /A" Bourd. & Galz. Edible. 

 Shady deciduous woods. Aug. Oct. Rare. 



2393. C. cristata (Holmsk.) Fr. Rolland, Champ, t. 103, no. 230. 



Cristata, crested. 



R. 2-5-7-5 cm. high, white, sometimes tinged ochraceous, often be- 

 coming cinereous with age when infected with Rosellinia Clavariae, 

 divided into numerous, irregular branches; trunk short, firm, villose. 

 Branches dilated above, often flattened, acute, incised, crested. Flesh 

 white, tough, firm. Spores white, subglobose, 7-8 x 6-7 /z, with a 

 large central gutta; "basidia small, 25 x 6-7 /u,, contents densely 

 granular, with 2-sterigmata. Hyphae loosely interwoven, more or 

 less parallel, fairly regular, frequently septate, segments 35-40 x 

 5-6 JM, in the centre 50-70 x 6-9/x" Cotton & Wakef. Edible. Woods. 

 June Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



2394. C. cinerea (Bull.) Fr. Rolland, Champ, t. 103, no. 232. 



Cinerea, colour of ashes. 



R. 2-5-5 cm. high, cinereous, very much branched; trunk whitish, 

 or concolorous, becoming almost black when infected with Rosellinia 

 Clavariae, short, stout, or thin. Branches and branchlets thickened, 

 irregularly shaped, somewhat wrinkled, obtuse, often crested and 

 paler. Flesh white in the trunk, cinereous upwards, somewhat firm. 



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