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THE 1jAR(;ER FUXCtI 
Clavaria fiisiformis (How.) Fr. (L., fus'iis, a si)in(lle; forma, shape). — 
Caespitosp to comiate, lieli salmon-orange becoming more salmon tinted. Clubs 
111 in. ((1 cm.) X jin. ((i mm.) thick, narrow, spindle-shaped, often twisted, some- 
times compresse<l, hollow, the cavity lined Vjy pallid salmony-white flesh, the 
outer flesh darker, Anally sometimes bursting irregularly above with vellowish 
tips, leaving an irregular tnimpet-shaped opening. Sterigmata 4, sometimes 2; 
spores Bubspherical, smooth, white, 4 to 5.8 ,u. New South Wales — Under moist 
rocks, Hawkesburv Rivei'; Xarral)e?n, Europe. United States of America. 
January, August, November. 
4.i:i. Clavaria vermicularis Fr. (L., vermindaris, worm-like). — White with a 
tint of Warm Buff (xv.) at the apices. Densely tufted, tin. (2.5 cm.) high, 
ratlier clulvshaped, attenuated downwards, simple or witli occasional knobs or 
on? or two short a[)ical prongs, apices blunt (acute in British specimens). Spores 
5.5 X 2 IX. South Australia — On tlie ground, MacDonnell Bay (S.E.). May. 
4:i4. Clavaria subrugosa Clel. (Sub, here near the species C. rugosa Fr.). — 
White becoming slightly dingy, pallid whitish becoming pale greyish brown, 
pallid greyish white or near Cartridge Buff (XX’X.). Up to Ui to 2in. (3.1 to 
5 cm.), base slender, expanding a little upwards, sometimes flattened, simple or 
dividing irregularly into several u))ward terete Aliform or flattened i>rongs or 
lobes, more or less irregnhu'ly rugose, solid. In small groups. Spores spherical, 
5.(i to 7.5 IX. South Australia — Mount Lofty, National Park. April, June, July. 
The spores for British sjiecimens of C. ntgosa are given Iry Cotton and Wake- 
Aeld as 9 to 11 x 8 to 9 g. Coker (“The Clavarias of the United Staites and 
Canada”) places C. rugosa as a form of C. cristata which he considers as very 
■variable. We liave cristate plants which we assign to C. cristata and it seems 
advisable to airply a deAnite name to these more simple, uon-cristate specimens 
whose sporoB do not agi'ee in size with C. rugosa of the English authors. 
435. Clavaria corallino-rosacea Clel. ((4r., korcdlion, coral; L., rosaoeus, 
rosy). — Clubs simjjle, occasionally forked several times, up to 11 to 2:Un. (4 to 
5.(1 cm.) high, prongs when present up to 1 cm. long, slender, attenuated down- 
wards and also sometimes upwards, sometimes rather flattened and grooved, 
soli<l, coral re<l or rosy pink (when moist a little^ninker than Morocco Ked, 
Dauthenav, PI. 95, Ton. 1 ; when drying shades of Coral Red, Pale Hcarlet, 
Salmon Pink, PI. 7(i), often pruinose above, when buried under leaves base 
whitish. Flesh light coral red. Spores somewhat )>ear-shaped, A x 3.4 to 4 ix. On 
the ground, sometimes under Lantana. New South Wales — Mosnian and Neutral 
Bay, Sydney. April and June. 
43(). Clavaria aurantia (k)oke et Massee. (L., aurantius, orange coloured). — 
Simple, very rarely with several small prongs above, single or in groujjs, occa- 
sionally tufted, 1 to 21in. (1.2 to (i.2 cm.) high, club-sha))ed, up to 4 mm. thick 
aliove, attenuated downwards becoming often very slender below, rarelv attenuated 
both ways, often twisted, occasionally slightly rugose above, sometimes slightly 
flatteneil, (kipucine Yellow (ni.). Deep Clu'ome (in.), Light Cadmium (iv.), or 
Yellow Ochre (xv. ), when dry. S|)ores subspherical, faintlv tinted, 4.1 to 8 ix 
(in one collection, noted as “distinctly rough”). On bare ground or amongst 
iiKiss. South Austi-alia — Mount Lofty. New South Wales — National Park. 
Victoria. Queensland. May to July. 
There seems little doubt that this is the species described bv Cooke and Massee 
from Victoiia as C. aurantia. Miss Wakefield informs me that at Kew, under 
this stiecies, they have the type from the Markaway Ranges, Victoria, and also 
specimens from the Bellenden Ker Range in Queensland. She Ands the spores 
to be hyaline, (i.5 to 7 x 4.5 to 4.8 g. We have not found specimens as tall as 
S cm., as in ('ooke’s descri[)tion (“Handbook of Australian Fungi,” No. 1131). 
Coker (“The Clavarias of the United States and Canada”), under C. uurantio- 
cimiahariiia Schw., says that “in Bresadola’s herbarium is a specimen of C. 
aurantia Cooke (No. 50, j)robably a part of type) which has exactly the 
appearance of the )>resent species (i.e., C. aurantio-cinnaharina) in the dried 
state and is probably a (dose relative. The S))ores are slightly different, being 
a little more elongated, 4.5 to 5x7 to 7.4 fx.” In our dried specimens, the 
blunt ends or tips of the clubs are not sharply different from the clubs or of a 
deeper ochraceous red coloui', though they are smooth and unwriukled and 
larger (exce])t the extreme ti[i) — features he Ands characteristic of C. aurantio- 
cinnaharina. 
