ESCULENT FUNGI OF GREAT BRITAIN. S7T 
Clavaria cinerea. Bull Champ, p. 204. t. 354. male. 
— Pers. Syn, Fung. p. 586. — De Cand. FL Fran^. 
ed. 3. V. 2. p. 100.— i^m^ Syst. Mycol v. 1. p. 468, 
Grev. Fl. Edin. ined. 
Cl. fuliginea, Pers. Mycol. Europ. v. 1. p. 166. 
Cl. grisea, Pers. Comm. p. 44. et Syn. Fung. p. 586.— 
Fries Syst. Mycol. v. 1. p. 468. 
Rama^bia cinerea, G'ray''s Nat. Arr. v. 1. p. 656. 
Has. Woods, borders of fields, and shaded places among 
grass, frequent. Autumn. 
Desc. 1-4 inches high or more, solitary or gregarious, 
tufted, much branched, pale, cinereous, bluish, purple- 
grey, or sometimes even approaching to flesh-colour. 
Stem very short, of an inch thick, dividing imme- 
diately into several thick irregular branches. Branches 
unequal, rugose, smooth, often producing a number 
of little incrassated divisions, summits somewhat dila- 
ted, subcompressed, mostly obtuse and knobby, or even 
bluntly palmate, rarely unequally cylindrical and acute. 
The above two species are very generally employed as 
food in France, where the inhabitants name the former 
barbe de houc, bonquinbarde, gantelines, gallinoles, pi- 
pettes, chevelines, pied-de-coq, poule, mousse, barbes, mai- 
nottes, menottes, barbe de chevre, espignettes, pattes dHalleor, 
diables, balais, S^c, S^c. and use the same terms to desig- 
nate the latter, adding only the epithet grise. In Italy 
they are called ditola gialla, ditola rossa, and ditola bianca, 
according to the colour of the varieties* De Candolle 
justly observes, that they may be considered as among the 
least hazardous of all fungi, as they bear no resemblance,, 
even remote, to dangerous kinds : he does not, however, 
think them eminently delicate. 
