CLAVARIA 717 



Cotton & Wakef. Taste pleasant, like cheese straws when cooked. 

 Edible. Densely caespitose. Amongst long grass in woods, and pas- 

 tures. May Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



2438. C. fragilis (Holmsk.) Fr. (= Clavaria vermicularis Fr. sec. 

 Cotton.) Fragilis, brittle. 



R. 5-6 cm. high, 2-3 mm. thick, white, or yellow, simple, cylindrical, 

 slightly attenuated downwards, apex subobtuse, or slightly pointed, 

 stuffed, becoming hollow, fragile. Flesh white, or slightly yellowish, 

 loose. Spores white, broadly elliptical, 89 x 5 6/z, with granular 

 contents. Edible. Fasciculate. Heaths, and pastures, rarely in woods. 

 Aug. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



****Fuliginous, or blackish. 



2439. C. striata (Pers.) Fr. Pers. Icon, et Descr. t. 3, fig. 5. 



Striata, furrowed. 



R. 3-5 cm. high, 3-4 mm. wide, sub/uliginous, cylindrical, at- 

 tenuated at the apex and base, extreme base white, somewhat twisted, 

 here and there longitudinally striate, compressed, apex subobtuse, 

 stuffed, then hollow. Flesh white, loose. Spores white, subglobose, 

 with a basal apiculus, 3-4 x 2-3/i. Amongst grass under beeches. 

 Sept. Rare. 



2440. C. fumosa (Pers.) Fr. Krombh. t. 53, fig. 18. Fumosa, smoky. 



R. 5-14 cm. high, 3-7 mm. thick, fuliginous, cylindrical, or in- 

 crassated at the apex, straight, subcompressed, hollow, somewhat 

 fragile. Flesh white, loose. Spores white, elliptical, somewhat pointed 

 towards the base, 6-7 x 4/u,, contents granular; "basidia incon- 

 spicuous, 35 x 6-7 \L, with 24 short sterigmata. Hyphae parallel, 

 with short, cylindrical cells, 30-50 x 10-15/z, pseudoparenchymatous 

 in transverse section" Cotton & Wakef. Densely caespitose. Amongst 

 grass in pastures, and on lawns, rarely in woods. Aug. Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



B. Clubs distinct at the base. 

 *Yellow, ochraceous, or tawny, often becoming rufescent. 



2441. C. pistillaris (Linn.) Fr. Rolland, Champ, t. 104, no. 235. 



Pistillaris, like a pestle. 



R. 7-30 cm. high, 2-5 cm. broad, light yellow, then rufescent, finally 

 dingy brown, obovate-clavate, obtuse, pruinose, stuffed. Flesh white, 

 floccose, firm. Spores white, or tinged yellowish, pip-shaped, or 

 elliptic-oblong with a lateral apiculus, 12-13 x 7-8/i, often 1-guttu- 

 late; "basidia about 70 fi long, with 2-4-sterigmata " Cotton & Wakef. 

 Edible. Woods. Sept. Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



