CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Clavaria. 
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( Grev. Scot. Crypt. 43. E.) —Bolt 112. 1—Batsch. 164 —Willd. 7. 18. 
Stem one-third to two-thirds of an inch long, very slender, pellucid, crooked 
at the bottom, twisting and untwisting as the air is moist or dry. Head 
oblong, near a quarter of an inch high, whitish. Batseh. The stem rises 
from a small bulb. Relhan. 
(Hygrometric Clavaria. Phacorhiza erytliropus. Grev. C. gyrans. Bolt. 
Batseh. Purt. C. erythropus. Pers. E.) On decayed straw and leaves, 
in woods and moist places. (Mr. Purton has observed the same stick 
present, in succession, C. ohtusa, gracilis, and gyrans ; and from the dif¬ 
ferent appearances at different periods of growth, he does not consider 
them essentially distinct. C. ohtusa he believes to be C. gyrans in its 
very early state ; the form of the head being u truly polymorphous, glo¬ 
bular, elongated, flat, or trowel-shaped. The stem also of some is 
forked, each one terminated by a roundish head; whilst in others both 
branches are pointed.” E.) Sept.—Oct. 
Cl. pjhacorhi'za. Club awl-shaped, pale brown: root lentil-shaped. 
{Grev. Scot. Crypt. 93 — Sowerhy 233. 
Simple, white, elongated, filiform, subulate ; radicular tumour compressed, 
dark brown. Plant two to four inches long. Tuber undoubtedly a part 
of the plant. Grev. 
Lentil-rooted Clavaria. C. phacorhiza. Sowerby. Pers. Purt. Pha- 
corhiza Jiliformis. Grev. E.) Garden walks about Walthamstow; (and 
in Kensington Gardens. Sowerby. E.) Oct. 
Cl. capita'ta. Stem yellow, cylindrical; pileus egg-shaped, chesnut- 
coloured, dotted. 
Bolt. 130 — FI. Dan. 540 and Bull. 463. 3. seem to be varieties of this. 
Root black, spongy, surrounded by a thick wrapper, which is continued 
with the stem. This is again inclosed in another, of a dry texture and 
brown green colour. Stem solid, smooth, furrowed, twisting, soft, plia¬ 
ble, splitting, two to three inches high, a quarter to half an inch diameter. 
Pileus long, egg-shaped, three-quarters of an inch high, near half an inch 
diameter. Bolton. 
(Dotted Clavaria. E.) Ramsden wood, about Highfield near Halifax. 
Cl. epiphyl'la. Club-shaped, very entire: head blunt, hollow, red : 
stem pale yellow. 
{Sowerby 293. E.) — Dicks, iii. 9. 10. 
Plant two or three inches high. Stem cylindrical: head oblong egg-shaped. 
(Red Ccub Clavaria. Leotia epiphylla. Pers. Hook. E.) In bogs, and 
on half decayed dead leaves. Dickson. 
Cl. spath'ula. (Dicks.) Head compressed, dilated : stem wrinkled. 
{Grev. Scot. Crypt. 165. E.)— Sowerby 35 — Bolt. 97— FI. Dan. 658— 
Schmid. 50. 
Stem white. Head yellow, egg-shaped, flatted. On being touched throw¬ 
ing up the seeds in form of a smoke, which rise with an elastic force and 
glitter in the sunshine like particles of silver. Bolt. 97. (Brittle, three to 
five inches high. Stem yellowish white, usually with a fine cavity* 
