Clavana CLAVARIACE^E 433 



yellow, salmon or salmon-buff, apices sometimes orange or 

 sulphur. 



Odour pleasant. Downs, commons, woods, pine; rare. July -Oct. 

 4f X 6 in. 



1946. C. spinulosa Pers. (from the attenuate spine-like branchlets ; 



spinulosiiS) spined) a b c. 

 Trunk short, somewhat thick, pale yellow; branches crowded, 



tense, straight, attenuato-pointed, yellow-orange, dull yellow or 



warm brown. 

 Woods, fir, beech, mixed. Sept. 5 x 6 in. 



1947. C. abietina Pers. (from the habitat, under fir, abies) ab c. 

 Trunk short, somewhat thick, very much branched; branches 



crowded, branchlets tense, straight, acute, olive-ochre or 

 olive-sienna-ochreous, becoming green where touched. 

 Taste bitter. Under fir, larch ; common. Aug. -Dec. 3 X 3 in. 



1948. C. flaecida Fr. (from its flaccid habit) ab c. 



Stem thin, very short, very much branched ; branches crowded, 

 even, unequal, acute, flaccid, often drooping, ochreous or buff. 

 Amongst leaves and moss in woods, pine ; rare. Oct. 3 X 2\ in. 



1949. C. eroeea Pers. (from the saffron colour ; croceus, saffron) a b. 

 Minute, thin; stem naked, pallid or yellow; branches and 



branchlets orange-scarlet. 



Downs, gardens, on peat. Sept. -Feb. f x \ in. The general appearance 

 is not that of a true Basidiomycete ; it has somewhat the appearance of a 

 slender minute branched Calocera. 



1950. C. grisea Pers. (from the grey colour ; griseus, grey) a b c. 

 Trunk somewhat thick, firm, often rooting, whitish; branches 



and branchlets attenuate, somewhat wrinkled, fuliginous- 

 cinereous. 



Woods; rare. Sept.-Oct. 4 x 5 in. Sometimes confounded with 1935, 

 in which the spores are white. 



1951. C. eondensata Fr. (from the closely adpressed branchlets ; 



condenso, to press close together) a. 



Tufts very dense, usually without a trunk, very much branched 

 from the base, smooth, tan-rufescent or salmon ; branches tense 

 and straight, crowded, even, fastigiate, twice or thrice-toothed, 

 yellow. 



On the ground, under trees. 3^ X 4 in. 



1952. C. strieta Pers. (from the tense, straight habit ; stringo, to drav 



tight) a b c. 



Trunk short, thin, very much branched ; branches and branchlets 

 tense and straight, even, crowded, adpressed, somewhat acute, 

 pallid yellowish or whitish-yellow to buff-tan, fuscous where 

 bruised. 



Woods, pine, on and about stumps, sawdust ; uncommon. Aug.-Nov. 

 4& * 3i i n - Often springing from cord-like mycellium. 



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