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Clavaria elegans Hist. 115.
Elegant Clavaria.

Clav. pulchra

This elegant Clavaria I gathered
under the Fir trees in the Plantation of
Fixby Octr. [October] the 12th, 1786.

It first arises in the figure of an Hercules's
Club is furrow'd [furrowed] and wrinkled, it is
solid and breaks short, having the appearence [appearance]
of <s>t</s>dried sheeps Tallow, -- it afterwards becomes
branched, or digitated in an irregular
but very beautifull manner, and at
last withers away in a dry leathery much
contracted substance.
        