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juice of their own. They are rather tough when dressed 
with butter, and require a hquid vehicle. 
This species is tolerably abundant in this country ; and 
no one need be under any apprehensions, as the whole ge- 
nus is wholesome, and well defined, by having their hyme- 
nium, or seat of fructification, composed of little spinous or 
awl-shaped processes. 
Hydnum imbricatum, H. erinaceum^ and //. caput- 
medusa^ are all used on the Continent as food ; but they 
are too rare in this country ever to be applied to a similar 
purpose : to describe them here would be therefore super- 
fluous. 
Clavaria. 
CI. coralloides, alba, erecta, caule crassiusculo, ramis 
elongatis, insequalibus, apicibus plerumque acutis. 
Clavaria coralloides, Linn. Fl. Suec. 1268.-— AS'ore'. 
Fung. t. 278. fig. sup. — With. Bot. Arr. ed. 6. v. 4. 
p. 437. var. %^Hook. Fl. Scot. pt. 2. p. ^d^—Fries 
Syst. Mycol. v. 1. p. 467. — Grev. Fl. Edin. ined. 
Cl. alba, Fers. Mycol. Europ. v. 1. p. 161. 
Ramaria coralloides alba, Holmsk. v. 1, p. 113. cum fig. 
Has. On the ground^ among grass, &c. especially after 
much rain. Autumn. 
Desc. Very smooth and white, but sometimes with a 
violet tinge at the base ; variously branched. Branches 
elongated, unequal, and generally acute at their sum- 
mits. 
23. Cl. cinerea, ramosa incrassata, ramis coralloideis, 
rugosis, dilatatis^ glabris, solidis subcompressis. 
