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CLAVARIA CINEREA.
G r e y Clavaria.
C la s s a n d O r d e u CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, Linn..
Link. Grev.
- N a t . O b d . FUNGI^
GEN ERIC CHARACTER.
Plantee carnosce, plus minusve cylindracea, simplices vel ramosx. Hymenium
heve, omnem fe re superjickm occupans, cum stipite confluens. Sporulx al-
hideB vel ochracece.
Carnose plants, more or less cylindrical, simple or branched. Hymenium
smooth, occupying almost the whole surface, and confluent with the stem.
Sporules white or ochraceous.
S P E C IF IC CHARACTER.
Clavaria cinerea; cinerascens vel suhpurpurascens; caule crasso, ramosissimo,
ramis inaiqualibus, subincrassatis, subrugosis, solidis, apicibus obtusis, rarius
acutis.
Cl. grey or purplish; stipes thick, much branched, the branches unequal,
somewhat incrassated, subrugose, solid, the summits obtuse, very rarely
acute.
Clavaria cinerea. Bull. Champ, p. 204. t. 354.—Pers. Syn. Fang. p. 586.—
De Cand. FI. Frang. ed. 3. v. 2. p. 100 Fjusd. Syn. p. 20.—Fries, Syst.
Mycol. v. 1. p. 468 Grev. Brit. Fscul. Fung. Wern. Trans, v. 4.
Clavaria grísea, Pers. Comment, p. 44.—Syn. Fung. p. 586.—FAes, Obs.
Mycol. 2. p. 289.—Syst. Mycol. v. 1. p. 468.
Clavaria fuliginea, Pers. Mycol. Furop. v. 1. p. l6 6 .
Clavaria coralloides, var. 6. With. Bot. Arr. ed. 6. (!) v. 4. p, 438.
R am a r ia grísea, Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. 1. p. 656.
H ab . Woods and borders of fields, very frequent throughout the whole
kingdom. Autumn.
Plant 2 -4 inches in height, and 2-3 in diameter, furnished at the base with
a thick, mostly solid stipes, which divides immediately into a greater or
less mass o f branches, of a pale cinereous, blueish, purple-grey, or even
purplish flesh-colour; divided upwards into smaller ones, but in an irregular
manner, unequal, rugose, smooth, the sides often producing small
knobby processes. Above, the branches are unequal in their termination,
often palmate, sometimes subdichotomous, mostly obtuse at the apex, and
frequently incrassated, but sometimes acute. They arc also occasionally
somewhat compressed. Sporules contained in filiform cells, which occupy
the whole surface, except the very short stipes.
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