708 CLAVARIA 



3-5-4-5/i, with a large central gutta; "basidia 30-35 x 5-6 /i, with 

 4-sterigmata. Internal structure pseudoparenchymatous in trans- 

 verse sections, cells long, 100-300 x 5-8/z" Cotton & Wakef. Edible. 

 Solitary, or gregarious. In long grass in woods, and pastures. Aug. 

 Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2402. C. chionea (Pers.) Quel. (= Clavaria Kunzei Fr. sec. Cotton & 

 Wakef.) Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. vi, t. 2. X 1 ^' snow - 



R. 57 cm. high, snow white, trunk thin, 23 cm. x 23 mm., very 

 much branched. Branches long, thin, unequal, pointed. Flesh white, 

 tough, somewhat elastic. Spores pale yellow in the mass, hyaline 

 under the microscope, subglobose, with a basal apiculus, 4-5 x 4/x, 

 with a large central gutta. Bare soil in woods. Sept. Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



2403. C. subtilis (Pers.) Fr. Pers. Comm. t. 4, fig. 2. 



Subtilis, slender. 



R. 2-2-5 cm. high, white, becoming yellowish, trunk 1-1-5 cm. x 

 1-2 mm., glabrous at the base, equal, mth few branches. Branches 

 dichotomously forked, subfastigiate. Flesh white, tough. Spores white, 

 oblong, elliptical, rounded at both ends, 6 x 3/u,, 1-guttulate. Amongst 

 grass in woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2404. C. comiculata (Schaeff.) Fr. (= Clavaria muscoides Fr. Hym. 

 Eur.) Schaeff. Icon. t. 173. Corniculata, having little horns. 



R. 2-5 cm. high, yellow, generally only twice or thrice branched ; 

 trunk white towards the base, thin, firm. Branches rounded at the 

 axils, apex crescent-shaped, acute. Flesh yellow, firm, tough. Spores 

 white, subglobose, often minutely apiculate, 5-6 fi, with a large central 

 gutta; "basidia distinct, 50 p, long, vacuolate or clear, with 4- 

 sterigmata, lOfj. long. Hyphae not interwoven, running parallel to 

 the axis, easily separable, and becoming twisted, 4-8 /z in diam., fairly 

 frequently septate, with cells 100-200/z, long, not pseudoparenchy- 

 matous in transverse section" Cotton & Wakef. Edible. Pastures. 

 Aug. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



var. pratensis (Fr.) Cotton & Wakef. (= Clavaria fastigiata (Linn.) 



Fr. Hym. Eur.) Pratensis, growing in meadows. 



Differs from the type in being more branched, with short, divaricate, 



fastigiate branchlets, and forming a level top. Edible. Pastures. Aug. 



March. Common, (v.v.) 



2405. C. umbrinella Sacc. (= Clavaria umbrina Berk.) Trans. Brit. 

 Myc. Soc. in, 1. 11, fig. E, spores. Umbrinella, somewhat umber. 



R. 2-5-3-5 cm. high, pale brown, irregularly and dichotomously 

 branched, stem absent, branches distinct to the base. Branches erect, 

 cylindrical, slender, 1-2 mm. thick, even, solid; apices blunt, or bifid. 



