AN HIST O R Y OF FUNGUSSES. Ill
CLAVARIA clavata petidlata. CXXXVII.
gracilism
S L E N D E R CL A V A R I A.
,. T A, B. . CXI.' F 'IJFE I,
; Believe this plant has ¡been confidered Wa. variety of the laft,
but; is. at once diftinguiihed, by having a foot-ftalk eflentially
different, in colour and texture, from the club which it
iuftains. Th-e club is an inch in length, of a dulky white,
and, like the other Clavarice, is of a, wax-like appearance.
The ilem [§ half an inch long ; it is fmooth, pellucid, and of
a colour a little' darker than the-ilem. The plant never grows
;larger than-is expreifed in the figure. is a plant magnified.
b. a longitudinal fe&ion. of the fame. Grows in ihady places
in garden-ground, which has lately been dug J#4n Mrs. GAYG
I L L ' S garden, at Sha, abundantly; whereWgathered ithe
fpecimens here figured and defcribed,A in O&ober, 1786)!^
CLAVARIA clavata intigerrima comprejfa. obtufa. Sp; PI. CXXXVHI.
1I52. Schaf.W'Vng- t%zj. ,/Hudfon Angli 638,'3. cphhglof-
Relhan, Flor. 467, '!$>. 974. Lightfoot, Scot. 1058, 4. Sd e s -
B L A C K C L A V A R I A.
q p H I S has a frnall hard root, furniihedVith ihort fibres. '
The plant is two or three inches high, ilender towards
the root j the clubbed part greatly increafing iri thicknefs, and
terminates very bluntly at the top. While young it is folid with-'
in, and fmooth on the outfide; as it advances in growth it be-,
comes hollow within, as at a. afterwards the iubitance ihrinks, *
and the fur face becomes depreifed, fulcated, or wrinkled. The
colour is at all times black on the outfide, the infide white.
• Grows in moift paftures-, amongft grafs, in feveral places
about Halifax