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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Clavaria. 
Yellow, brittle, smooth, when young undivided, flatted, grooved, becoming 
forked with age ; terminating in a taper point. Bull. 
CL bifurca. Bull. Cl. vermicularis. Lighlf. Grows on the ground. 
Var. 6. Yellow, smooth, cylindrical; when old forked at the end. 
Vaill. 8. 4. 
On decayed wood, amongst moss, in Edgbaston plantations. Aug. 
The plants of this and the following species were united by Linnaeus and 
Hudson, under the name of CL pistillaris , but Haller, and after him 
Lightfoot, very properly divided them; for want, however, of attending 
to the circumstance of the individuals being solid, or hollow, a circum¬ 
stance which seems invariable, some confusion yet remained. We have 
now arranged them, guided by their structure, and as they naturally fall 
under two species, the third species of Haller and Lightfoot, called vcr- 
micularis , and its varieties, associates with one or other of these two. 
Cl. pistilla'ris. Nearly cylindrical, generally undivided, hollow, 
brittle, smooth. 
Var. 1. Hollow, white; thickest upwards. 
Schmidel 15 — Bull. 463. 1. A, L, M. — Vaill. 75. 
Var. 2. Hollow, orange or brownish yellow. 
Bull. 463. 1. B , JVj O. — (Sowerby 253, the lower figures. E.) 
These plants are very brittle, slender at the base, rounded at the end, some¬ 
times, though rarely, cloven ; two or three inches high, and as thick as a 
raven’s quill. 
(Hollow Clavaria. E.) Woods, heaths, and dry hedge banks. 
Sept.—Nov. 
Var. 3. Tapering to a point; crooked, hollow, white. 
{Sowerby 253, the upper figures. E.) — Mich. 87.13. 
CL pistillaris. y Huds. CL vermiculata. Lightf. Woods and pastures. 
Autumn. 
Cl. tubercula'ta. Nearly of an equal thickness : pale orange; whole 
surface studded with tubercles. 
Schosjf. 289. 
About one and a quarter of an inch high, and one quarter of an inch dia¬ 
meter ; nearly of equal thickness but rather flatted, and sometimes slightly 
cloven at the top. Colour pale orange, but the whole surface studded 
with deeper orange-coloured tubercles which are broadest at the base, 
pointed and transparent at the apex; the interstices filled with a whitish 
cobweb-like substance. 
The figure of Schaeffer represents the tubercles very imperfectly, but they 
are mentioned in the description. Bull. 496. 1. gives a good idea of the 
tubercles, but that has a stem supporting a head, and therefore belongs 
to the preceding subdivision. 
(Orange Tubercled Clavaria. E.) It is a rare plant, and was found 
only once in the rookery at Edgbaston, growing on the ground. Aug. 
Cl. elveloAdes. (Dicks.) Growing in tufts: stems very simple, 
very thick, united at the base, inversely pyramidal, scored. Jaeq. 
Misc. ii. 99* 
Schasff. 164 —~Jacq. Misc . ii. 12. 3. 
