CLAVARIA 711 



yellow upwards, very much branched. Branches erect, elongate, 

 crowded; apices lemon yellow, forked, simple, or toothed. Flesh 

 whitish in the trunk, subconcolorous elsewhere, tough, elastic. Spores 

 ochraceous in the mass, oblong elliptical, with a basal, or lateral 

 apiculus, 9-11 x 5-6 /JL, usually 1-guttulate, "becoming finally sub- 

 verrucose" Bourd. & Galz.; "basidia not conspicuous, 30-40 x 6-8 /i, 

 with 4 erect sterigmata. Hyphae frequently septate, loosely inter- 

 woven in the centre, 6-8(-10)/x, wide, occasionally swollen up to 14/z 

 at the septa, more slender, and more closely interwoven towards the 

 margin, subparenchymatous in transverse section. A few latex 

 hyphae present" Cotton & Wakef. Smell pleasant. Taste agreeable. 

 Edible. Woods. July Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2415. C. Broomei Cotton & Wakef. 



C. E. Broome, the well-known mycologist. 



R. 58 cm. high, 2-4 cm. broad, ochraceous orange, tips darker 

 orange, turning brown easily on bruising, base white, or pinkish; trunk 

 short, not swollen, white, becoming pinkish on bruising, somewhat 

 branched, rooting base small. Branches irregular, or subdichotomous, 

 slight below, more frequent above, axils not rounded, cylindrical, or 

 flattened, short, solid, fairly erect, smooth, or the larger branches 

 much wrinkled, tips flattened. Flesh white, becoming vinous later 

 especially below, solid. Spores deep ochraceous, or even orange in the 

 mass, fusiform, or pip-shaped, markedly aculeate, 14-20 x 6-8/i 

 (average 15-16 x 6-7 /z); basidia not conspicuous, 40-50 x 8-9 ^t, 

 with 2-sterigmata, contents granular. Internal structure composed 

 of fine filaments, densely packed, slightly interwoven, 3-6 //, in diam., 

 with vesicular ends, 10-12/4 in diam., not pseudoparenchymatous 

 in transverse section; large crystals in abundance in the tissue. 

 Smell slight, not pleasant. Taste bitter. Woods. Sept. Oct. Un- 

 common. 



2416. C. spinulosa (Pers.) Fr. Pers. Obs. n, t. 3, fig. 1. 



Spinulosa, with little spines, 



R. 5-8 cm. high, 3-6 cm. broad, somewhat cinnamon, brownish 

 amber; trunk 2-4 x 23 cm., pallid, becoming yellowish, very much 

 branched. Branches elongate, crowded, tense and straight; apices 

 concolorous, forked, simple or toothed. Flesh white, firm, tough. 

 Spores ochraceous, elliptical, or oboval, incurved and apiculate at 

 the base, 8-9 x 4-5/z. Woods, and heaths. Sept. Jan. Not un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



2417. C. abietina (Pers.) Fr. Abietina, pertaining to firs. 

 R. 2-5-7-5 cm. high, 3-6 cm. broad, ochraceous, becoming greenish 



when bruised or weathered; trunk 12-5 cm. x 8-15 mm., white tomen- 



