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CLAVARIA CBISTATA.
Pale crested Clavaria.
C la s s a n d O r d e r CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, Linn— N a t. O r d . FUNGI, Utìk,
Grev.
GEN ERIC c h a r a c t e r .
Planlæ carnosa;, plus minusve cylindraceæ, simplices vel ramosoe. Hymenium
loeve, omnem fe re superficiem occupans, cum stipite confluens. Sporidia albida
vel ocliracea.
Carnose plants, more or less cylindrical, simple or branched. Hymenium
smooth, occupying almost the whole surface, and confluent with the
stipes. Sporidia white, ochraceous.
s p e c if ic ch a r a c t er .
Clavaria cristata ; “ cæspitosa, ramosa, loevis, glabra, albida dein fuliginea,
ramis superne dilatatis cristatis acutis."—F r ie s .
Cl. tufted, branched, smooth, glabrous, whitish, at length smoke-grey, the
branches dilated upwards, crested, acute.
Clavaria c r is ta ta , Pers. Syn. Fung. p. 59 1 .—Jib. et Schwein. p. 287-—Fries.
Syst. V. 1. p. 473.—Pers. Mycol. Furop. 1. p. 166.—Schwein. Fung. Carol
No. 1082— Crev. FI. Fdin. p. 413.
Clavaria fa lla x , Pers, Comment, p . 4 8 .—FI. Dan. t. 1304. f 2.
C l a v a r i a a lb id a , Schoeff. Fung. t. 170.
C l a v a r i a n iv e a , Pers. Comment, p . 48. t. 2. f. 4.
Ram ARI A c r i s t a t a , Holmsk. 1. p . 02. cum icone.
H a b . In woods and moist shaded places. Balmuto in Fifeshire, and about
Edinburgh.
Plant tufted, branched, 2-3 inches high, fleshy, rather firm, snow-white,
whitish, or greyish, at length dingy or smoke-grey, solid, with a smooth
and even surface, varying greatly in the degree of ramification; the
branches more or less crested or fimbriated at their apex, and acute,
very rarely abrupt and obtuse. Sporidia numerous, globose, white.
A very pretty species, somewhat allied to Clavaria cinerea,
especially in the variable appearance frequently put on by the
branches. One singular variety has the stem almost regularly
infested with a minute black Sphæria.
Fig. 1. A plant o f Clavaria cristata, nat. size. Fig. 2. A portion o f a stem
transversely divided. Fig. 3. A portion o f the hymenium, shewing the thecoe
and sporidia, magnified.
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