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CLAVARIA ramis confertis ramofijfimis inoequalibus. Sp. PI. CXLI.
1652. Schaf. Fung. t. 17,-, 176, 177, 285, 288. Tourn co,alhidti.
Infi. t. 332, fig. B. St erb. Theal. t. 11 , fig.'A. C. D.
C O R A L C L A V A R I A;
T- A B. ' Cxf§S§|
'T"SHIS, from one common root, which is brown and furt'
1-®- vniihed with many fibres, fends up numerous branches,
large at the bafe, and repeatedly divided and fubdivided into
innumerable leiler ones, each of which terminates at top
in three or four tooth-like fegments^ of equal height. The
whole plant is fometimes as large as a Cokjlore.
It varies greatly in colour, being white, purple, yellow, or
olive-coloured; the lafi: of which is moft frequent in this
neighbourhood.
Grows in feveral woods about Halifax, in October.
L I G H T FOOT fays,, it is -reputed to be one%of the beß of the •
fungus tribe, for the Table; and, is eaten by the Germans, under
the name of Ziegenbert. -
The yellow fpecimen figured on my plate, at c. has been
confidered as a variety of this plant, (See Vaill. Paris) but I
think it belongs to the Clavaria fofiigiota, as before mentioned.