PTERULA. 303 



*** Simple, distinct. Calocera. 



5. C. stricta Fr. Yellow, simple, solitary, elongated, blunt at 

 the base, linear, even when dry. 



A. truncorum, 12 mm. -2. 5 cent. (K -I in-) long, the base girt with white 

 delicate down. B. epiphylla, 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) high, the base naked and 

 bluntly rooted. 



On ash. Belvoir Castle. Oct. 



Name stringo, to draw tight. Tense and straight. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 

 680. A. B. &> Br. n. 1032. C. Hbk. n. 996. Bonord. f. 255. 



6. C. striata Fr. Yellow, simple, solitary, tough, lanceolate, 

 acute, striate when dry. 



Commonly taken for a form of C. cornea, but distinct. 



On prostrate trunks. Batheaston. 



Spores 8x6 mk. B. &= Br. Name stria, a furrow. Striate. Fr. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 681. B. & Br. n. 1140. C. Hbk. n. 997. Hoffm. Germ. t. j.f. i. 



7. C. glossoides Fr. Light-yellow, 12 mm. (% in.) long, 

 simple, solitary, somewhat tremellose. Club small, thickened, 

 obtuse, compressed. Stem round. 



On decayed oak and stumps. Leighwood, Bristol. 



Composed of erect forked flocci. Spores oblong, oblique, somewhat in- 

 curved, attached by a short pedicel. B. & Br. Name -yAwo-cra, the tongue ; 

 elfios, appearance. Tongue-like. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 68 1. Syst. Myc. i. 

 p. 487. Berk. Out. p. 284. C. Hbk. n. 998. 



GENUS LIII. Pterula. Fr. in Linn. 1830. p. 531. Pteruia. 



Cartilaginous, filiform, arid, equal, without a distinct stem. 

 Hymenium pubescent then becoming smooth, with 4-spored 

 sporophores (LeVeill.) Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 68 1. 



Some species are simple, others much branched. 



1. P. subulata Fr. Height 4 cent. (\y z in.), very densely 

 crowded, tense and straight, equal except at the attenuated base, 

 sparingly branched. Branches growing into each other, whitish- 

 cinereous ^ multifid at the apex, awl-shaped, smooth, becoming 

 yellow. 



Tough. Not thicker than a fine thread. 



On wood. Burnham Beeches, 1874. 



Name subula, an awl. Awl-shaped. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 682. Syst. Myc. 

 iii. /. 286. Linn. 1830. t. n.f. 4. B. & Br. n. 1588. 



