CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 



clufter> The branches few, comprefs'd, anci 

 furrow'd ; a little dilated at the ruinmits, trun- 

 cated, and either ferrated cr crenated. 

 Its color, like the lad, is yellow, white, or pur- 

 ple. The feeds oval. 



C. ramis ramofis acuminatis infpqnalibus luteis. 

 Sp.pl. 1652. (Raj. Angl. 3. p. 16. tab. 24. /. 

 7. Scha-ffer. fung. tab. ly^. opt.) 



Yellow fliarp -pointed Clavaria. AngUs. 



In woods and heaths among mofs. X. 



This has no thick .common bafe, like the two 

 lafl:, but is nearly of the fame fize throughout, 

 and of a yellow color. 



It is divided irregularly into many branches •, the 

 branches unequal in heighr, their f;mmits 

 acutely forked, and ibmetimes incurved. The 

 feeds are oval. 



Obs. It may not be amifs, in this place, to take 

 notice, that a modern writer has aflerted the 

 whole genus o^'Clavaria to. belong to the tribe 

 of Zoophytes ; that is, to the animal and not the 

 ^vegetable kingdom. According to his method, 

 he ranks them among the Vermssi under a fub- 

 divificin which he terms Fungofa ofculis atomi- 

 feris^ thereby underftanding them to be com- 

 pound animals, with many orifices on their 

 fnrface, from which are protruded atoms or 



animalcules 



