714 CLAVARIA 



2426. C. crispula Fr. Crispula, with little curls. 

 R. 2-5-7-5 high, tan, then ochraceous, very much branched; trunk 



thin, with villose rootlets. Branches flexuose, multifid, divaricate. 

 Spores "pale yellow, elliptical, 5x3^" Massee. Base of trunks, ash, 

 and elder. Oct. Dec. Rare. 



II. Simple. 



A. Tufted, or caespitose at the base. 

 *Purple, or reddish. 



2427. C. purpurea (Miiller) Fr. Fl. Dan. t. 837, fig. 2. 



Purpurea, purple. 



R. 7-12 cm. high, 1-2 mm. thick, purple, purple grey, purplish 

 brown, or dark chocolate, white villose at the base, fusiform, compressed, 

 hollow ("solid" Cotton), flexuose, acute. Spores white, "oval, 7-8 x 

 4-5 /i, contents granular; basidia small, 25-30 x 7-8, guttulate, with 

 4 erect sterigmata. Hyphae irregular, cells 50-60 x 3-5 \JL, or x 7-9 /u, 

 towards the centre, pseudoparenchymatous in transverse section" 

 Cotton & Wakef. Fragile. Caespitose. Grassy places, and under 

 conifers. Aug. Oct. Rare. 

 C. rufa Fl. Dan. = Clavaria inaequalis (Mtiller) FT. sec. Cotton. 



2428. C. rosea (Dalman) Fr. Rosea, rose colour. 

 R. 2-5 cm. high, rose colour, whitish at the attenuated base, fusiform, 



apex acute, rarely toothed, or bifid, cylindrical, or somewhat com- 

 pressed, sometimes becoming yellowish at the apex. Flesh whitish, 

 stuffed, brittle. Spores white, subglobose, with a distinct basal 

 apiculus, 6-6-5 x 5/n; basidia clavate, 22-37 x 7-10/u, with 4-sterig- 

 mata. "Hyphae irregular, 7-12/t in diam., frequently septate, semi- 

 parenchymatous in transverse section; crystals sometimes present" 

 Cotton & Wakef. Caespitose. Pastures. Sept. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



**Yellow. 



2429. C. fusifonnis (Sow.) Fr. Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 234. 



Fusus, a spindle ; forma, shape. 



R. 5-14 cm. high, yellow, elongate-fusiform, attenuated at both 

 ends, smooth, often with a central furrow, apex acute, rarely toothed, 

 becoming hollow. Flesh concolorous, paler upwards, somewhat firm. 

 Spores white, or tinged with yellow, globose, minutely apiculate at the 

 base, 6-8 p, with a large central gutta; "basidia hyaline, 35-40 x 

 6 8/x, with 4 slightly curved sterigmata. Hyphae more or less inter- 

 woven, 4-6 fj, in diam., walls sometimes rough, occasionally with dark 

 yellow contents" Cotton & Wakef. Taste bitter. Caespitoso-connate. 

 Woods, and pastures. July Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



