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CLAVARIEI. 



Pteruia. 



2. P. multifida Fr.— Height 2.5-5 cent - (*- 2 m 0> at tne first 

 pallid whitish then (especially when dried), dirty pale yellowish, 

 very much branched, very delicate, flaccid but slightly tough. 

 Branches tense and straight, not much thicker than a hair, 

 heaped as if swept together, somewhat fastigiate, spear-shaped 

 at the apex, of the same colour. 



On dead branches. Sept. 



Na.me—multus, many ; fitido, to cleave. From the multitude of branches 

 into which it is cleft. Fr. Hym, Eur. p. 682. Monogr. ii. p. 282. B. & 

 Br. n. 1304. 



Typhula. Genus LIV. — Typhula (Typha, the Reed-mace, which it some- 

 what resembles in miniature. Berk.) Pers. — Fr. Epicr. p. 584. 



Minute tender fungi with a filiform stem, which is either 

 heterogeneous and distinct from the linear club, or springs from 

 a sclerotioid hybernaculum. Hymenium waxy, sporophores 

 forked, spicules elongated. Growing oti plants. Fr. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 682. 



I. Phacorrhiz;e (^axo?, a lentil ; pi'£a, a root, from the sclerotioid root). 

 Springing from sclerotioid hybernacula. 



II. Leptorrhiz/E (\en-To?, slender; pC£a, a root). Radical tubercle (Sclero- 

 tium) not discovered or awanting. 



I. — Phacorrhiz/E. Springing from sclerotioid hybernacula. 



1. T. erythropus Fr. — Simple, club 

 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) long, white, linear, 

 cylindrical, smooth; stem elongated, 

 12 mm. {% in.), filiform, reddish- 

 black, hybernaculum depressed, 

 blackish. 



The hybernaculum (sometimes awanting) 

 is Sclerotium scutellatum. 



On dead stems of herbaceous 

 plants. Common. Autumn. 



Name— epuflpos, red ; novs, a foot. Red- 

 stemmed. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 683. Syst. 

 Myc. i. p. 495. Berk. Out. p. 284. C. Hbk. 

 71. 099. »S. Mycol. Scot. n. 952. Fl. Dan. 

 t. 2030. — Bolt. t. 112. Grev. t. 43. 



XCIV. Typlnda phacorrhiza. 

 One-half natural size. 



2. T. phacorrhiza Fr.— Pallid, be- 



