GkYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 105^ 



a fomewhat leathern and fpongy fubftance, 

 longitudinally wrinkled on the furface, and co- 

 vered with a bloom-like powder. The feeds 

 are oval. 



It grows fingle, and when old it becomes hoi* 

 low ', the head truncated or deprefs'd. 



Linnatis confiders it as a variety of the preced- 

 ing ; but its fubftance, habit, color, and fi2e, 

 feem to indicate it a diftinft fpecies, and we 

 have the refpeflable name of Haller to coun- 

 tenance us in this opinion. 



C. lumbriciformis ochrolettca.— G/i?^//. fung. pag, 

 30. n. It. Haller. Hehet. n. 2202. ScopoL 

 Carniol. n. 1623. edit. 2. Michel gen. tab. 8y. 

 /. 12, t^. et ejus varietas. Vaill. Far, t. 8,. 

 /.2.) _ ■ 



Single taper Clavaria. Anglis* 



In woods and paflures in the autumn. 



It is about two inches high, generally thickeft. in 

 the middle, and taper at the ends j often lon- 

 gitudinally wrinkled -, of a yellow or ftraw co- 

 lor, and a fuet-like friable fubftance. 



It grows either fingle or in clufters, and is fome- 

 times, but very rarely, divided or forked, 

 p. A variety of this, (or perhaps a diftind fpecies) 

 . was communicated to us by Dr. Parjons^ grow^ 

 ing out of the branch of a living tree. 



