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H I S T O R Y OF FUNGUSSES,
G R O W I N G about HA L I FAX.
G E N U S - . VIII.
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CXXXVI, CLAVARIA clavaeformis fimpliffima. Sp„. PI. 1651. Schaef.
t'Jiilaris. Fung. t.i7i. Vaill. Paris, t. 7, fig. 5 . Mich. Gen. t. 5',
6, 7, 9, io, 11"; Scbeuchzar Iter, alp 1, p. 29, 3, 3.
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T T has a brown fibrous root/which produces fometimes one
fingle, fometimes a great number of, club-fhapen plants.
It vanes extremely in fize and colour; its height is generally
two or three inches, its thicknefs about that of. a duck's quill.
Sometimes it is of-a pure white, but varies through all the
gradations of yellow, from a pale tirige to a deep itrong golden
or orange colour. It is of a waxlike fubftance, eafily breaking
between the fingers. The feparatfe plants are moft commonly
fimple, and terminate in an obtufe point ; but they are fometimes
bifid or forked, as exprefied in the figure.
On moors amongft mofg, where it generally grows fingle, I
have feen fpecimensK'four or five inches high, " it is a very
common plant on dry banks and in barren pafture grounds,
about Halifax. Authors have made many imaginary fpecies, from
the various appearances of this plant. Fid. HUDSON'S Flora
Angelica, p. 638.
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