H4 AN HISTORY OF F U N G U S S E S,
•CXLII. CLAVARIA ramis ramojis incequalibus luteis, Sp. PL 1654.
mujcoides. Sebcef. Fung. t. 173. Sterb. 'Thieat. t. 11. B. Ray Angl.
f. 24, fig. 7. Hud/'on Angl. 640,8. Relhan Flor. 468,
No. 9jj. Lightfoot, Scot- 1062, 9. Bulliard, pi. z64*
F O R K E D C L A V A R I A.
"iy A B. qxiv.
' " p H I S , from a brown fibrous root, fends up the plants fome-r'
times fingle, as b.c.d. fometimes tKey rife in clutters or
bundles, from a fmall contradted bafe, as at a-. in both cafes
the branches are divided, in a J'ubdicholomofe. order^. 'and always
with a forked termination. Sometimes the grains of thefe
terminal forks are of equal,' fometimes of unequal length;
fometimes they diverge at their origin, and converge near the
point. The whole plant is of a fine gold colour while freih,
turning brown in decay. It varies in height from one to four
or five inches.
It is a very common plant in cold dry pafture grounds,
about Halifax, in; September and Odtober.
I have feen large luxuriant fpecimens of this plant,-[. the fize
of a man's fiit; the branches much fwelled at the divarications,
ihort, and much entangled together, but all united at the
bafe, and iifuing from one fmall roof.