CLAVARIA 713 



2421. C. palmata (Pers.) FT. Palmata, palmate. 

 E. 5-6 cm. high, 3-4 cm. broad, tan, or tawny, becoming paler; 



trunk thin, very much branched almost from the base. Branches bifur- 

 cate, flattened, thin, erect, palmately branched, apices forked, or 

 toothed. Flesh pale, firm. Spores pale ochraceous, minutely punctate, 

 oblong elliptical, 6-7 x 3-4 p, usually 1-guttulate. Smell very pleasant. 

 Coniferous woods. Dec. Rare, (v.v.) 



2422. C. crocea (Pers.) Fr. Kpoicos, saffron. 

 R. 1-1-5 cm. high, saffron yellow, stem pallid, thin, naked. Branches 



and branchlets similar, somewhat forked. Spores " ochraceous, ellip- 

 tical, 6-7 x 3-4/z," Massee. Waste ground, downs, gardens, on peat. 

 Sept. Feb. Rare. 



2423. C. grisea (Pers.) Fr. (= Clavaria cinerea (Bull.) Fr. sec. Cotton.) 



Grisea, grey. 



R. 3-7-5 cm. high, fuliginous cinereous; trunk 4 x 2-5 cm., whitish. 

 Branches 7-5 cm. long, attenuated, somewhat wrinkled; branchlets un- 

 equal, obtuse. Flesh firm. Spores "reddish ochre in the mass, slightly 

 brownish, and with a yellowish gutta under the microscope, oboval, 

 10-12 x 7-7-5^" Bourd. & Galz. Woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



2424. C. fuliginea Pers. Fuliginea, sooty. 

 R. 5-7-5 cm. high, 5 cm. broad, cinereous, becoming rufescent, very 



much branched; stem thin; larger branches thick, compressed, lateral 

 rather incomplete; branchlets subfastigiate, short, acute. Spores 

 ochraceous, globose, with an apiculus, 10//,. Ground. Rare. 



**Growing on wood. 



2425. C. stricta (Pers.) Fr. Berk. Outl. Brit. Fung. t. 18, fig. 5. 



Stricta, close. 



R. 5-10 cm. high, 3-8 cm. across, pallid yellow, becoming fuscous 

 when bruised; trunk 1-3 x 1 cm., whitish at the base, concolorous up- 

 wards, very much branched. Branches tense and straight; crowded, 

 adpressed; apices acute, or toothed. Flesh white, firm, tough. Spores 

 pale ochraceous, pip-shaped, with a basal, or lateral apiculus, 6-9 x 

 4-5 /x; "basidia distinct, 30-40 x 7-9 fi, contents granular, with 4 

 erect sterigmata. Hyphae interwoven, 4-10/x in diam., not parenchy- 

 matous in transverse section, central hyphae rather thick walled" 

 Cotton & Wakef . Rotten stumps, and buried wood. Aug. Jan. Not 

 uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. alba Cotton. Alba, white. 



Differs from the type in its creamy white colour. On the ground, 

 amongst fallen leaves, etc. Rare. 



