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*** Si?)lple, disti?ict. Calocera. 



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

 the base, linear, even when dry. 



A. truncorum, 12 mm.-2.5 cent. (%-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. ?i. 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. 1. 



7. C. glossoides Fr. — Light-yellow, 12 mm. ( l / 2 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 — yKioo-aa, the tongue ; 

 et6os, appearance. Tongue-like. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 681. Syst. Alyc. i. 

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



Genus LI 1 1.— 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. 681. 



Some species are simple, others much branched. 



1. P. subulata Fr.— Height 4 cent. (ij£ 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. p. 286. Linn. 1830. /. 11./. 4. B. & Br. n. 1588. 



