CLAVARIA 709 



Spores white, pip-shaped, laterally apiculate, 4-5 x 4/x, or 5-6 x 3/M, 

 usually guttulate; basidia 35-40 x 6-7 /u,, contents finely granular, 

 with 4-sterigmata. Hyphae loosely and slightly interwoven, 7-10/z 

 in diam. Taste pleasant. Lawns, and amongst short grass in woods. 

 July Oct. Uncommon. 



2406. C. curta Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 199, fig. 2. Curta, short. 

 R. 1-1-5 cm. high, greenish yellow, very much branched, pressed 



close together. Stem none. Branches crowded, obtuse. Spores white. 

 Amongst grass, and fir leaves. Oct. Rare. 



2407. C. Bizzozeriana Sacc. (= Clavaria conchyliata Allen.) Trans. 

 Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 8, as Clavaria conchyliata Allen. 



J. Bizzozero. 



R. 5-10 mm. high, brilliant violet, becoming paler, at first simple 

 and toothed at the apex, then dichotomously branched; stem reddish 

 yellow (nankeen), pubescent. Flesh white. Spores white, globose, 2-5- 

 3//,; basidia 6-7 /A in diam. Gregarious, but scattered. Bare soil under 

 nut trees. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



**Growing on wood. 



2408. C. pyxidata (Pers.) Fr. Pers. Comm. t. 1, fig. 1. 



Pyxidata, box-shaped. 



R. 2-5-5 cm. high, pallid, then tan colour, somewhat rufescent; trunk 

 thin, smooth, branched. Branches and branchlets all hollowed out in 

 cup-shape at the apex, cups radiating in a proliferous manner at the 

 margin. Flesh white, firm. Spores white, elliptical, 4 x 3/x. Rotten, 

 and buried wood. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



2409. C. Kewensis Massee. (= Clavaria stricta (Pers.) Fr. sec. Cotton 

 & Wakef.) Kewensis, belonging to Kew. 



R. 4-7 cm. high, rusty brown, becoming ochraceous upwards, base 

 thick, dividing almost at once into numerous, subequal, divergent 

 branches. Branches uniform in thickness throughout, often com- 

 pressed, imperfectly hollow, dividing near the apex into 24 short 

 branchlets, axils rounded, tips obtuse, or divided into 2-4 short 

 finger-like processes, pruinose. Spores white, elliptical, apiculate at 

 the base, 5-6 x 3-5-4 /A. Smell pleasant like that of Lentinus cochkatus. 

 Forming dense tufts, 12-15 cm. across. Rotten wood. Oct. Rare. 



B. Spores more or less ochraceous. 

 *Growing on the ground. 



2410. C. botrytis (Pers.) Fr. Rolland, Champ, t. 103, no. 231. 



/3oTpi/9, a bunch of grapes. 



R. 7-10 cm. high, 6-20 cm. broad, whitish, or ochraceous; trunk 



