CLAVARIA 719 



Spores white, elliptical, sometimes depressed on the side towards the 

 base, 8-9 x 4-5/z, 1-guttulate; "basidia small, 30-35 x 6-7(-8)/u, 

 with 4-sterigmata, slightly vacuolar. Internal structure parenchyma- 

 tous in transverse section, with occasional large air spaces " Cotton & 

 Wakef. Amongst leaves in woods. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



**White, or greyish. 



2447. C. canaliculate Fr. (= Clavaria rugosa (Bull.) Fr. sec. Cotton & 

 Wakef.) Canaliculata, channelled. 



R. 3-20 cm. high, 46 mm. thick, snow white, or greyish, clavate, 

 or cylindrical, at length compressed, channelled, or splitting longitu- 

 dinally, stuffed, then hollow. Flesh white, loose. Spores white, broadly 

 elliptical, 11-12 x 7/x, with a large central gutta. Solitary, rarely 

 in pairs, or threes. Heaths, and pastures. Sept. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



2448. C. tenuipes B. & Br. (= Pistillaria tenuipes (B. & Br.) Massee.) 

 B. & Br. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, vol. n, t. 9, fig. 2. 



Tennis, thin; pes, foot. 



R. 1-5-6 cm. high, 210 mm. wide, pallid clay colour, pale grey to 

 drab-coloured, clavate, or cylindrical, often compressed, smooth, or 

 slightly rugulose, apex blunt, hollow when old. Stem slender, 1-2 cm. 

 x 2-3 mm., more or less sharply marked. Flesh concolorous, loose. 

 Spores white, elliptical, or oval, often with a minute basal apiculus, 

 6-9 x 4-5 n, guttulate, then granular, "basidia 30-40 x 7-9 p, with 

 4-sterigmata, contents granular. Internal structure consisting of 

 loosely packed, oblong cells, 8-10/x in diam., cells 50-150/x long, 

 hyphae unbranched " Cotton & Wakef. Isolated, or in small groups. 

 Amongst short grass, bare soil, and old charcoal heaps, on heaths, 

 pastures, and in woods. Sept. Jan. (v.v.) 



2449. C. asterospora Pat. Pat. Tab. Anal. ser. 2 (1886), fig. 568. 



d<rTijp, a star; <nropd, seed. 



R. 2-3 cm. high, pure white, simple, slender, cylindrical, apex blunt, 

 or pointed, smooth, hollow. St. slender, greenish at the base, not 

 markedly distinct from the club. Flesh brittle. Spores hyaline, with 

 long, scattered spines, globose, spore body 7-8 /u, in diam.; basidia 

 clavate, 30-40 x 8/t, with 4-sterigmata. Internal structure pseudo- 

 parenchymatous in transverse section. Bare soil. Rare. 



2450. C. acuta (Sow.) Fr. Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 333. Acuta, pointed. 

 R. 3-7 cm. high, 2-3 mm. thick, glistening white, cylindrical, or 



compressed, smooth, becoming hollow, very brittle, attenuated ; apex 

 acute, or obtuse. Stem usually very distinct, 1-2 cm. long. Flesh 

 white, loose. Spores white, subglobose, minutely apiculate, 7-10 x 

 6-9 /z, guttulate, then granular; "basidia 30-35 x 7-8 /A, with 4- 

 sterigmata, contents granular. Internal structure pseudoparenchy- 



