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1007. Pistillaria micans. Fr. " Glistening Pistillaria. " 



Obovate, obtuse, rose coloured ; stem short, attenuated, wliitisli. 

 — Fr. Epicr.p, 587. Kl. exs. no. 342. Hoffin. Germ. t. l^f. 2. Ehr. 

 Ber. t. 3,/. 2. Eng. Fl. v. p. 181. Bisch.f. 3138. 



On dead thistles. Rare. Cambridge. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Very minute, not a line high. 



1008. Pistillaria culznigena. 3font. " Grass-stem Pistillaria." 



Ovato-clavate, obtuse, pellucid, bvaliae ; stem distinct, very 

 short. — Fr. Epicr.p. 587. Mont. Ann. Sc. Nat. 1836, no. lb,t. 

 12, f. 2. Ann. N.H. no. 85. Berk. exs. no. 152. 



On stalks of grass. Jan. 



1009. Pistillaria quisquilaris. Fr " Fern-stem Pistillaria." 



Incrassated aboTe, subcompressed, whitish, soft when recent, 

 attenuated at the base, substipitate. — Fr. Epicr.p. 586. Sow. t. 

 331,/. 1. Kl. exs.no. 1312. Berk. exs. no. 25. Eng. Fl. v. p. 182. 



On fern stems. Common. 



Gregarious, 3-4 lines liigli, apes incrassated, sometimes flattened or bifid, 

 quite even and smooth. -^/'ie5. Often attached to a /S'c"/e/-o!'('('.//i. {Fig. 93.) 



1010. Pistillaria puberula. BerTi. " Fibrous Pistillaria." 



Obovate, ventricose, white ; stem short, distinct, pellucid, to- 

 mentose. — Berk. Outl. p. 286. Sow. t. 334, /". 2. F. ovata, Fr. 

 Epicr. p. 6S7. Eng. Fl.Y. p. 181. 



On dead Pteris. Rare. King's Cliffe. 



Very minute, scarcely one line high ; stem attenuated upwards, composed 

 of many confluent fibres ; receptacle obovate, bat not broadly so.— M.J. B. 



1011. Pistillaria pusilla. Fr. *' Little Pistillaria," 



Small, smooth, even, linear, white ; stem scarcely distinct. — 

 Fr. Epicr.p. 587. Pers. Com. t. 3,/. 6. Eng. Fl. \. p. 182. 



On Equisetum, &c. Weymouth. 



SHghtly thickened upwards, not 1 Hne high, nodding when dry.— J/. /. B. 



1012. Pistillaria furcata. Smith, " Forked Pistillaria. " 



Clubs waxy, then tough, white or yellowish, compressed, broad 

 at the apex, attenuated downwards, generally furcate and Cccspi- 

 tose. — W. G. Smith, in litt. 



In greenhouses. 



Clubs I5 in. high. 



