712 CLAVARIA 



tose, very much branched. Branches erect, crowded, longitudinally 

 wrinkled when dry, apices often becoming tinged with green, forked, 

 toothed, acute. Flesh greenish, especially at the base, firm, tough. 

 Spores ochraceous, pip-shaped, with a basal apiculus, 6-7 x 3-4/u,, 

 1-guttulate, "becoming verrucose" Bourd. & Galz.; "basidia small, 

 35-40 x 7-8/i, contents uniform, finely granular, with 4 erect sterig- 

 mata. Hyphae filamentous, loosely interwoven, 4 10/z (average 5-7 p,), 

 slightly septate" Cotton & Wakef. Taste bitter. Edible. Coniferous 

 woods. Aug. Dec. Common. 



2418. C. Invalii Cotton & Wakef. Inval near Haslemere, Surrey. 

 R. 45 cm. high, deep ochre, forming dense, compact, almost 



spherical tufts ; trunks more or less distinct, short, often woolly, with 

 white, or yellowish rooting strands, irregularly and frequently 

 branched, axils acute. Branches slender, short, uneven, cylindrical, 

 erect, smooth, solid ; apices attenuated, pointed. Flesh white. Spores 

 yellow, pip-shaped, slightly incurved at the base, echinulate, 7-9 x 

 4/z (average 8 x 4/u.); basidia conspicuous, 30-40 x 7-9 /A, contents 

 finely granular, with 4 erect sterigmata. Internal structure of irre- 

 gular, wavy, filamentous hyphae, 5-10/u, in diam., loosely interwoven, 

 and running equally in each direction. Smell slightly pungent. Taste 

 faint, hardly bitter. Amongst leaves in thick plantations of spruce, 

 larch, etc. Uncommon. 



2419. C. flaccida Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 199, fig. 4. Flaccida, flabby. 

 R. 3-10 cm. high, 3-4 cm. across, ochraceous, or somewhat tawny; 



trunk 2-3 x 1-5-2 cm. or almost none, concolorous, very much 

 branched, flaccid. Branches erect, crowded, even, apices acute, 

 simple, or forked, converging. Flesh whitish, yellowish upwards, 

 elastic, firm. Spores very pale ochraceous, elliptical, 6-7 x 3/x, 1- 

 guttulate, "minutely verrucose" Bourd. & Galz.; "basidia small, 

 conspicuous, 30 x 7-9 /M, contents finely granular, with 4-sterigmata. 

 Hyphae loosely interwoven, slightly septate, 7-10/x in diam., not 

 parenchymatous in transverse section, and more densely arranged 

 towards the periphery" Cotton & Wakef. Woods, and heaths. Sept. 

 Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2420. C. condensata Fr. Condensata, pressed close together. 

 R. 5-10 cm. high, 3-4 cm. across, tan rufescent; trunk 1-2 cm. x 



5-10 mm., ochraceous cream, or whitish at the base, divided into numerous 

 branches almost to the base. Branches yellow, tense and straight, erect, 

 crowded in a parallel manner, apices fastigiate, twice or thrice toothed. 

 Flesh white, deep yellow upwards, firm, tough. Spores ochraceous, 

 elliptic oblong, depressed on the side, 8-9 x 4/A, 2-3-guttulate. 

 Woods, and heaths. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



