Typhula CLAVARIACE^E 44 1 



sometimes hidden beneath a thin bark or membrane and easily 

 overlooked, brown, dark-brown when dry, sometimes absent. 



Leaves, sticks, poplar, alder, ash, sunflower ; common. Sept. -Nov. I in. 

 The sclerotium is Sclerotium scutellatum A. & S. 



1986. T. phacorrhiza Fr. (from the lentil-like base ; Gr. phakos, a 



lentil, r/iiza, a root) a b c. 

 CI. linear, cylindrical, pallid to ivory and orange. St. linear, 

 confluent with club, elongate, flexuous, yellowish, pilose at the 

 sometimes fuscous base. Scl. \ in. or less, pale brown or 

 buff, reddish-brown when dry. 



Woods, hedgerows, gardens, herbaceous stems, leaves, moss, plane, hazel, 

 alder, ash, apple, sometimes on earth ; uncommon, but sometimes found 

 in considerable abundance in patches. Oct. -Nov. 4^ in. Must not be 

 confounded with 1973 or 1992. The sclerotium is Sclerotium scutellatwn 

 A. & S. and S. complanatum Tode. 



1987. T. inearnata Fr. (from the flesh colour; incarnatus, flesh- 



coloured) a c. 

 CI. cylindrical, obtuse, rarely forked, flesh-colour or white, more 

 or less tinged with salmon-pink above. St. continuous with 

 the club, pilose downwards. Scl. \ in. or less, compressed, 

 fuscous. 



Dead herbaceous stems ; uncommon. 3^ in. Closely allied to 1986. The 

 sclerotium is Sclerotium fulvum A. & S. 



1988. T. gyrans Fr. (from the twisted habit; gyro, to turn in a 



circle) a b c. White. 

 CI. cylindrical. St. filiform, gyroso-undulate, pubescent. Scl. 

 -Jjj in., pallid to orange and brown, becoming fuscous. 



Straw, twigs, leaves, alder, poplar ; uncommon. Oct. i in. The sclerotium 

 is Sclerotium complanatum Tode. 



1989. T. museicola Fr. (from its habit, living on mosses ; muscus, 



moss, colo, to inhabit) a c. White. 

 CI. elongate, cylindrical, obtuse. St. thin, smooth. Scl. ^ in., 



even, pallid. 

 Larger mosses ; uncommon, ij in. 



b. Leptorrhizce. 



1990. T. Grevillei Fr. (after Dr. Robert Kaye Greville) a b c. 



White. 

 CI. thickened, obtuse. St. capillary, pilose white. 



Dead leaves ; frequent. Oct. \ in. Only distinguished from 1988 by the 

 absence of a sclerotium. 



1991. T. gracillima White ex B. & Br. (from the very slender habit ; 



gracilis, slender). White. 

 CI. elongate. St. very slender, curved, smooth. 

 Various herbaceous plants, f in. 



