with little black hairs; hymenium slightly wrinkled, dirtywhite.—
and Schw. t . l . f . 5.
On dead stalks, twigs, etc. Not common. Apethorpe,
North am ptonshire.
7. C. eapnla, F r .; membranaceous, obliquely campanulate,
stretched out into a curved stem, smooth, dirty-white; margin
sinuated, irregular; hymenium even.—Holmsk. ii. t. 22.
On dead stems of herbaceous plants. Not uncommon.
Looks like a Peziza. Sometimes yellow.
8. C. G o l d b a c h i i , F r .; membranaceous, cup-shaped, ur-
ceolato-concave, sessile, externally white, villous; hymenium
even, pallid.
On dead leaves of Aira ccespitosa. Spye Park, Wiltshire,
C. E . B .
9. C. cntieulosa, F r .; membranaceous, white, diaphanous,
at first oblong, then cup-shaped, elongated into a stem, smooth
externally.—Dicfo. iii. t. 9. /. 11.
On dried grass-stems. Not found since the time of Dickson.
Order 5. CLAVA-RIJEI.
Hymenium scarcely distinct from the hymenophorum, ver-
tical, amphigenous, reaching to the very apex, even, or at
length wrinkled. Never incrusting or coriaceous.
41. CLAVARIA, L.
Fleshy, branched or simple without any stem of a distinct
substance ; hymenium dry.
1. Branched.
* White-spored.
very much branched ; branches swollen, unequal, rather wrinkled;
tips red.—Kromb. t. 53. /. 1, 4.
In woods. Very rare. Inverary, Lady Orde. Bowood,
C. E. B.
2. C. amethystina. Bull. ; brittle, very much branched,
violet; branches round, even, obtuse. (Plate 18, fig. 2 ; small
variety.)—Bull. t. 496. / . 2.
In mossy places. Bare. Bristol, H. O. Stephens. Coed
Coch. Most variable in size. Sometimes 3 inches or more
high, and very much branched ; sometimes a few lines, and
nearly simple.
3. C. fastigiata, P.O.; tough, cæspitose, yellow, slenderstemmed,
very much branched ; branches short, divaricate ;
branchlets fastigiate.—JLo/msi. I. p. 90, with a figure.
In pastures. Extremely common.
4. C. mnscoid.es, L. ; rather tough, graceful, yellow, slender
stemmed, twice or thrice forked ; ramuli lunate, acute.—
Holmsk. i. p. 87, with a figure.
In pastures. Not so common as the last.
5. C. coraUoides, L. ; rather hrittle, white, hollow within ;
stem rather thick, repeatedly and irregularly branched; hranch-
lets unequal, dilated above, very numerous, crowded, acute.
Sow. t. 278.
In woods. Not common. Kent, Mrs. Hussey.
6. C. umbrina, P .; pale-umber, slightly branched; branches
and branchlets cylindrical, obtuse, forked. (Plate 18, fig. 4.)
On mossy lawns. Coed Coch. I find nothing at all agreeing
with this. The habit is that of C. fastigiata. I t has
not, however, the slightest tinge of yellow.
7. C. cinerea, Bull. ; hrittle, stuffed, at length cinereous,
very much branched ; stalk short, thick ; branches and branchlets
thickened, irregular, somewhat wrinkled, obtuse.—Grev.
t. 64.
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