710 CLAVARIA 



3-4 x 1-5-6 cm., white, becoming yellowish, firm, passing into very 

 numerous, crowded, irregular, thick branches. Branches ochraceous, 

 cylindrical, or compressed, dividing into numerous branchlets, apices 

 red, toothed. Flesh white, compact. Spores ochraceous in the mass, 

 oblong elliptical, attenuated at the base into a slightly curved point, 

 12-15 x 4-6 fji, 1-2-guttulate, finally longitudinally striate; "basidia 

 long, conspicuous, 60-70 x 8-10/u,, contents granular, with 2-4- 

 sterigmata. Internal structure of parallel, septate hyphae, cells 100- 

 150 x 10/A in the centre, smaller towards the margin, scarcely paren- 

 chymatous in transverse section" Cotton & Wakef. Smell very 

 pleasant, fruity. Taste agreeable. Edible. Woods. Aug. Nov. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



2411. C. flava (Schaeff.) Fr. Schaeff. Icon. t. 175. Flaw, yellow. 

 R. 7-14 cm. high, 10-20 cm. broad, lemon yellow, trunk 4-5 x 



5-8 cm., white, becoming blood red when bruised or handled, divided 

 up into very numerous branches. Branches crowded, compressed, 

 fastigiate, apices toothed. Flesh white, turning slightly blood colour 

 near the cuticle when quite fresh, brittle. Spores pale ochraceous in the 

 mass, oblong elliptical, 9-12 x 4-5 p, finally minutely warted; 

 "basidia 45 x 10/z, finely granular, with 4-sterigmata. Hyphae inter- 

 woven, 8-12/>t in diam., subparenchymatous in transverse section" 

 Cotton & Wakef. Taste pleasant. Edible. Woods, Sept. Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



2412. C. aurea (Schaeff.) Fr. Schaefl. Icon. 287. Aurea, golden. 

 R. 5-10 cm. high, 10-20 cm. broad, egg yellow, or somewhat tawny; 



trunk 24 x 15 cm., whitish at the base, concolorous above, base some- 

 what bulbous, divided into numerous, erect, stout branches. Branches 

 tense, straight, dichotomous, round, flattened ; apices paler, toothed, 

 or incised. Flesh white, yellowish near the cuticle, tough, elastic. Spores 

 ochraceous in the mass, oblong, or subfusiform, often obliquely apicu- 

 late, 9-12 x 3-4/z, 1-3-guttulate. Taste pleasant. Edible. Aug. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2413. C. rufescens (Schaeff.) Fr. Rufescens, becoming red. 

 R. 7-9 cm. high, 3-6 cm. broad, branchlets all blood red, becoming 



paler; trunk 4-5 x 2-3 cm., whitish at the base, becoming yellow up- 

 wards, divided into numerous erect branches. Branches erect, sub- 

 compressed; apices dentate, or forked. Flesh whitish, reddish at the 

 apex of the branches, tough. Spores ochraceous. Woods. Sept. Oct. 

 Rare, (v.v.) 



2414. C. fonnosa (Pers.) Fr. Pers. Icon, et Descr. t. 3, fig. 6. 



Formosa, handsome. 



R. 6-9 cm. high, 7-30 cm. broad, orange rose colour, or pinkish 

 ochraceous; trunk 3-4 x 2-5-6 cm., whitish at the base, becoming rosy 



