SPAKASSIS — CfLAVAELi. 75 



forming a compact head, springing from a thick, stem-like, 

 rooting base, whitish or pale ochraceous ; spores pale ochra- 

 ceous, 5-6 X 3-4 fi. 



Sparas»is crigpa, Cke., Hdbk., n. 958, f. 87; Stev., Brit. 

 Fung. ii. p. 289 ; Hogg and Johnst., t. 24. 



Amongst heather, in fir woods, &c. Yariable in size, some- 

 times forming masses 18 in. across. 



CLAYAEIA, VaiU. (figs. 2, 3, 4, 8, p. 74.) 



Sporophore erect, simple, and more or less club-shaped, 

 or variously, often excessively branched ; hymenium covering 

 every part of the sporophore, which is not famished with a 

 distinct stem; basidia tetrasporous ; spores colourless or 

 coloured. 



Clavaria, VaUl., Paris, p. 39 (in nart) ; Fi., Syst. Myc. i. 

 p. 466. 



Growing on the ground or rarely on wood. Fleshy and 

 brittle, often very bright-coloured. Calocera, a genus re- 

 sembling a branched Clavaria in habit, is distinguished by 

 its viscidity and subgelatinous nature, also by the sub- 

 globose, CTuciately septate basidia. 



I. BAMAEIA. Branched, branches attenuated upwards. 



* Leucosjaorae. Spores white or dingy ; not ochraceous. 



•f Colour dea/r yellow, red or violet. 



Clavaria botrytes. Pers. 



Fragile, basal portion thick, fleshy, passing into numerous 

 irregular, crowded, thick branches, which are thickened at 

 the extremity and broken up into numerous densely-crowded, 

 reddish, toothed branchlets ; spores white, 8x5//.. 



Clavaria botrytes, Cke., Hdbk., n. 959 ; Badham, Esc. Fung, 

 i. t. 1 6, f. 2 ; Stev., Brit. Fung. ii. p. 290. 



In woods. Large, from 3— 6 in. across, 3— 4 in. high; the 

 subglobose ends of the branches are composed of numerous 

 crowded, small branchlets varying from rose-colour to dingy 



