CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Clavaria. 
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When young fleshy: when fully grown woody, branched, compressed, 
somewhat funnel-shaped, lopped, the edge plaited, curled, brown with a 
tinge of purple without, whitish or yellowish within. Dickson 21. In¬ 
versely conical, about two inches high and one inch diameter. Schaeffer. 
(Elvella-like Clavaria. E.) Woods, on the ground, about the trunks of 
trees. Aug—Sept. 
Cl. ophioglossoi'des. Wholly black: club-shaped, very entire, com¬ 
pressed, blunt. 
{Sowerby 83. E.)— Schmid. 25— Bolt. 111. 2— Bull. 372— FI. Dan. 1076. 2— 
Schwjf. 327— Vaill. 7. 3—Batsch 47 —Mich. 874— Pluk. 47. 3. 
About two inches high, and near half an inch over in the broadest part; 
black, smooth, spatula-shaped upwards, white within, and hollow when 
old. Bolton. Bulliard. I never could perceive any appearance of sphe¬ 
rules on this plant. Mr. Woodward. Sometimes cloven at the top. Like 
very fine cloth to the touch. 
(Adder’s-tongue Clavaria. C. ophioglossoides. Linn. Lightf. Huds. 
Sowerby. Bull. Schaeff. Bolt. Purt. C . atro-purpurea. Batsch. Geo - 
glossum hirsutum. Pers. Hook. E.) Moist heaths and woods. Ancott 
bog, near Shrewsbury. Mr. Aikin. Sept. Oct, 
Cl. GLUTiNo r sA. Growing in clusters, but not crowded: wholly black : 
head battledore-shaped, with a raised border. 
About one and a half inch high: head remarkably flattened, or compressed, 
not club-shaped, neither is the stem cylindrical; in no part hirsute, or 
scaly, nor showing any purple tinge. Satiny, or perhaps slimy in moist 
seasons; splitting in decay. 
(Glutinous Clavaria. This species is nearly allied to the preceding, as 
also to Geoglossum viscosum , Grev. Scot. Crypt. 55, but not exactly agree¬ 
ing in all points with either, we apprehend it may be Geoglossum gluti - 
nosum 3 of Persoon, and new to the British Cryptogamist. Found by the 
Editor on a mossy lawn at Wick House, near Bristol, Oct. 1822. E.) 
Cl. fimbria'ta. Undivided, hollow, close and pointed, or open and 
fringed at the end. 
Greenish at the bottom ; white above; hollow, tapering, close and ending 
in a single or double point; or open at the end and surrounded with a 
dark coloured glandular fringe. The whole covered with a greyish pow¬ 
der. About the thickness of a pin and near half an inch high. 
(Fringed Clavaria. E.) Edgbaston, amongst moss. 27th Oct. 1790. 
Cl. cor'nea. Red orange : simple or cloven, nearly cylindrical, blunt, 
gelatinous, solid. 
Batsch 161— Bull. 463. 4— Sowerby 40. 
Hardly quarter of an inch high; often sticking together from its glutinous 
texture, though horny and brittle when dry. Batsch. 
(Horny Clavaria. C. cornea. Batsch. Pers. Hook. Purt. C. aculeiformis. 
Bulliard and Sibthorpe. E.) Found by Mr. Relhan on decayed rails. 
Sept. 
And by Dr. Sibthorpe upon decayed timber, in timber-vards at Oxford. 
Feb. 
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