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C L A V A R IA uNciALis.
Tf7izie gregarious Clavaria.
C l a s s a n d O k d e b CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, Am».—N a t . O e d . FUNGI, L in k ,
Grev.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Plantx carnosce, plus •minusve cylindracece, simplices vel ramosce. Hymenium
Iceve, omnem fe re superfciem occupans, cum stipite confluens. Sporulce al-
bidce vel ochracece.
Carnose plants, more or less cylindrical, simple or branched. Hymenium
smooth, occupying almost the whole surface, and confluent with the stipes.
Sporules white or ochraceous.
S P E C IF IC CHARACTER.
C l a v a r ia u n c i a l i s ; alba, gregaria, clavata, teres, Icevis, non fragiUs, apice ob-
tusa, ad basin nuda, valde attenuata.
Cl. white, gregarious, ro u n d , club-shaped, smooth, n o t fragile, ro u n d ed at
th e apex, below n aked, m u ch a ttenuated.
C l a v a r ia uncialis, Grev. FI. Edin. p. 415. '
H ab. On the dead stems of large herbaceous plants, rotten twigs, &c. in
woods. Autumn. Foxhall, near Edinburgh, Captain W a u c h .
Plant very gregarious, half an inch to one inch in height, white, becoming-
tinged with yellow in age, nearly straight or slightly flexuose, solid,
round, not brittle, the base neither villose nor twisted, very slender, gradually
incrassated upwards, and rounded at the apex. Tubular cells of
the hymenium filiform.
A small species, not possessing any peculiar interest. It
is, however, very distinct, and ranges near Cl.fragilis, Cl. vir-
gultorum, and Cl. tortilis of P e r s o o n . From the first it
differs, in not being brittle, never rugose, and never growing on
the ground; from the second, in being incrassated upwards.