Pistillaria 



CLAVARIACE/E 



443 



1997a. P. fulgida Fr. (from its shining colour ; fnlgeo, to shine) a. 

 Cl. lanceolato-clavate, subacute, white or pale orange below, 



yellow or orange above. 

 " On the bractere of Dipsacits pilosus," Sowerby. J in. 



Fig. in. A, Pistillaria puberula Berk., natural size. B, ditto, X 4. 

 c, basidium and spores, X 500. 



1998. P. eulmigena Fr. ex Mont, (from its habitat, grass-stems ; 



culmus, a haulm, gigno, to bear) a b c. White. 

 CL ovato-clavate, obtuse, hyaline-pellucid. St. distinct, very 

 short, cartilaginous when dry. 



Stems and leaves of grasses, Secale, Triticitm, Dactylis gloinerata. Oct.- 

 Nov. in. 



1999. P. quisquiliaris Fr. (from its habitat, sweepings, rubbish, etc., 



quisquilitf) a b c. Whitish. 

 Cl. ovato-clavate, somewhat compressed, rarely bifid, soft when 



fresh, rigid when dry. St. short, often springing from a 



sclerotium. 

 Fern-stems, oak, wych-elm, grass, willow-herb, Charopkyttum. April-Nov. 



Jin. 

 1999a. P. ovata Fr. (from the ovate shape) a. 



Cl. obovate, ventricose, subdepressed, hollow, white. St. very 



short, glabrous, pellucid. 

 Dead stems and leaves, birch, bramble, poplar, elm, willow. \ in. 



2000. P. puberula Berk, (from the tomentose stem ; pubes, downy) 



a b c. White. 

 CL ovate, ventricose. St. short, distinct, attenuate upwards, 



pellucid, fibrous, tomentose. 



Ferns, stems and leaves of herbaceous plants ; rare. Sept. -Oct. T a 5 in. 

 2000a. P. pusilla Fr. (from its very small size ; pusillus^ small) a. 

 Small, linear, attenuate upwards, stem scarcely distinct, white. 

 Dead leaves. Feb. J-f in. 



