OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
26i) 
0 M- On the ground, usually in Eucalyptus {e.g., E. obliqua) foi-ests. SoutU 
Australm— Mount Lofty, Kuitpo, National Park. New South Wales— National 
1 aik, Kendall, Milson Island in llawkesbury R. May to August. (Figure 5S.) 
Cavaria ochraceo-salmonicolor Ulel. (L., ochracpus, ocliraceous; salmoni- 
oolor, salmon-coloured). — Uompact, eaulitlower-like, lij to 4.', in. (4.4 to 1 1 cm) 
usually about 2Un. ((i.2 cm.) high, 2 to oin. (5 to 12.o cm.) broad in larger 
Rjiecimens. hioni a tlii<'k pallid base up to lin. (2.o cm.) wide, dividing’ into 
stout bj'anches (up to §in., 10 mm., thick) and these again dividing three to 
five times to enil in blunt prong-like processes caj)ped bv several blunt teeth a 
few inm. long, angles rather rounded, branches witli longitudinal rugae. Colour 
Antimony Yellow (xv.), Light Ocliraceous Salmon (xv.), Ocliraceous Salmon 
(XV.), Liglit Ocliraceous Buff (xv.) or Apiicot Buff (xv.) when drying; when 
young Capucine Orange (ni.), the tips yellower, which yellow mav be lost when 
older; tips sometimes Warm Buff (xv.) or Ocliraceous Buff (xv.). Spores 
elongated pear-shaped with an oblique apiculus, in the mass yellowish-brown 
microscopically slightly tinted, 7.d U, IM x ?,.7 to 5.5 /i, usuallv about 9 to l(i 
X 4 ;i. South Australia — Alouiit Lofty, Willunga Hill, Encounter Bay, Second 
[From u'utercoUmr bn .l/iV.v Fivrai^h. 
Figure 59. — Clartiria axMlraHanu Clel, (No. 424). Mount Lofty. 
(B-E.)i McDonnell Bay (S.E.), Kalangadoo 
(b.±j. ), (..arolme State lorest near Mount Gainbier. Victoria — Ararat !N^ew 
South Wales — Kangaroo Valley. April to July. 
I "1 or yellow form also occurs in the same localities {e.g., Mount 
J.otty, W illunga Hill), similarly cauliflower-like, of tlie same size, base whitish 
main branches stout and rugose, dividing three or four times to end in short 
processes a few mm. long dividing into several small knob-like projections, angles 
sometimes acute, branches pressed together, flesh whitish, simres usually about 
9 to HI X 4 to 0 g. Branches Pale Orange Yellow, Capucine Orange, Orange-Buff 
(lip, near Buff Yellow ( iv. ) or yellower to Antimonv Yellow (xv.), or betwemi 
fellow Ochre and Buckthorn Brown (xv.). This, and' es])eciallv the orange form, 
IS probably the Australian representative of Clnvarm aurea Schaeff. var mistraUs 
.okei, Coker in ‘‘ The Clavarias of the United States and Canada’’ describing 
the variety as being between ca]uicine orange and orange buff of Kidgewav all 
over except tlie base which is nearly white, Vmt easily staining viiiaceous brown 
when handleil (not noted in our plants). He gives the spores as 11 to 13 x ,3 9 to 
4.4 g, minutely rough. 
