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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Clavaeia; 
Pikus an inch long or more., of an obovate form, slightly inflated, undu¬ 
lated, or even lacunose, sometimes bifid, or inclining tobelobed; its base 
decurrent down the stem. Grev. A perplexing species, considered by 
Purton as scarcely distinct from Helvella clavata: which latter Greville 
refers to Leoiia lubrica. E.) 
(BAttledore Clavaria. Helvella spathulata. Sowerby. Purt. Spathic-* 
laria jlavida. Pers. Hook. Grev. E.) Woods near Norwich, Sept. Mr. 
Crowe. In a pine grove at Kirby, near Beccles, constantly appearing 
every year. Mr. Woodward. In a fir, wood at Johnston House near 
Lawrence Kirk. Mr. Brown. Aug.—Oct. 
Cl. milita'ris. Club-shaped, very entire: head scaly or granulated. 
Var. 1. Head scaly. 
( Sowerby 60. E.)— Schceff. 290. 
About four inches high and near two inches in diameter at the upper and 
thicker part. Solid; orange brown. 
(Orange Clavaria. Sphoeria militaris. Sowerby. E.) In shady woods. 
Oct. 
Var. 2. Head granulated; orange brown, or red brown. (Two to three 
inches high, head cylindrical, studded with cartilaginous granules: stem 
smooth or scaly. E.) 
(Purt. 23. E.)— Schmidel 5. 2. and 3— Bolt. 128— VaiU. 7. 4 —FI. Dan. 
657. 1. 
(This singular fungus is generally, if not always, found growing from a 
perished chrysalis; or f<r the unquickened remains of a spider’s nest.” In 
great plenty this year (June 1820), in Ragley woods; and every speci¬ 
men attached to a chrysalis.” Purt. E.) 
Var. 3. Head granulated; yellow. 
Bull. 496.1— Buxb. iv. 66. 2. 
Stem slender, tapering upwards, about an inch high, and then gradually 
thickening to form the head, which is nearly cylindrical, but thickest in 
the middle, blunt at the end, granulated on its surface, one or one and a 
half inch high, two-tenths to three-tenths of an inch diameter in the 
thickest part. 
( C. granulosa. Bull. E.) Moist woods and bogs. Thorpe near Norwich, 
Sir J. E. Smith. Sept.—Oct. 
Cl. parasit'ica. Unbranched: head oval, supported on a stem. 
Willd. Berol. 7. 17. 
This singular fungus is always attached to a Lycoperdon. It is very like 
Cl. opliioglossoides , but is softer in its substance, and sooner decays. The 
head is never compressed, as in that species, and is always covered with 
minute papillae. When old it is hollow at the top. Willd. p. 405; who 
gives its specific character thus : 
Cl. parasitica, clavata, nigra, simplicissima, stipite lereti , corpore oblongo 
tereti, obtuso papilloso —but I have preferred that of Mr. Woodward as 
being shorter, yet sufficient. He ranks it as a Sphceria. 
Sph. parasitica simplex, stipitata , capitulo ovali. 
Will denow calls the Lycoperdon on which this grows, L. scabrum., and says 
it differs from the Tuber cibarium, which it certairdy does, but I do not 
sec in what respect from T* cervimm* This plant is never branched. 
