CLAVABIA 715 



var. ceranoides (Pers.) W. G. Sm. Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 235. 



Krjpos, wax; etSo?, like. 



Differs from the type in the blunter, often divided apices of the clubs 

 becoming brown. Woods, and pastures. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



2430. C. luteo-alba Rea. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. n, t. 3 



Luteus, orange yellow; alba, white. 



R. 45 cm. high, 2-3 mm. thick, deep rich yellow, or apricot colour, 

 becoming pale ochraceous when dried, apex white, cylindrical, or slightly 

 compressed, gradually attenuated downwards to the base, blunt, or 

 acute, stuffed. Flesh orange yellow, or concolorous, floqcose. Spores 

 white, pip-shaped, or ovoid, 5-8 x 3-4 /u,; basidia 25-30 x 5-7 //,, con- 

 tents slightly granular, with 4-sterigmata. Hyphae 5- 6 p in diam., 

 containing orange coloured granules. Taste "like tallow" Cotton. 

 Fasciculate, or scattered. Woods, pastures, and heaths. Aug. Dec. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2431. C. inaequalis (Miiller) Quel. Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. t. 37, as 

 Clavariafragilis. Inaequalis, unequal. 



R. 2-5-6 cm., golden yellow, sulphur coloured at the base, simple, or 

 forked, apex acute, stuffed. Flesh pale yellow. Spores white, " ovoid, 

 globose, apiculate, 7-9 x 6-8 /x" Bourd. & Galz. Woods, pastures, 

 and heaths. Aug. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2432. C. dissipabilis Britzl. (= Clavaria similis Boud. & Pat. ; Clavaria 

 inaequalis (Miiller) Fr. sec. Cotton.) Britzl. Hymen. Siidb. fig. 28. 



Dissipabilis, dispersed. 



R. 3-6 cm. high, 2-3 mm. thick, yellow, to orange yellow, fragile, 

 elongato-clavate, tapering downwards, or cylindrical, obtuse, rarely 

 subacute, smooth, or furrowed, stuffed. Flesh white or yellowish, 

 floccose. Spores white, or tinged with yellow, acutely warted, sub- 

 globose, 5-6 /A, with a large central gutta; "basidia conspicuous, 

 clavate, yellowish, 30-40 x 6-8/x,, with 4 more or less erect sterig- 

 mata" Cotton & Wakef. Solitary, or in small clusters. Woods, pas- 

 tures, and heaths. Aug. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



2433. C. per similis Cotton. Per similis, very like. 

 R. 3-5 cm. high, 2-3 mm. thick, orange yellow, to orange, becoming 



dark orange when dried, cylindrical, or subcompressed, apex usually 

 acute. Flesh pale, floccose. Spores white, subglobose-oblong, with a 

 conspicuous oblique apiculus, 5-6 x 4ju,, guttulate; basidia 30-35 x 

 7-8/A, contents granular, with 4-sterigmata. Hyphae loosely packed, 

 running longitudinally, 3-6 /u, in diam., not pseudoparenchymatous 

 in transverse section. Isolated, or fasciculate. Amongst short grass. 

 Woods, and pastures. Not uncommon. 



