Pistillaria.] FUNGI. 181 



the base, drawn out and distorted from peculiar circumstances of 

 situation. 



3. T.erylhropus, Pers. (red-stemmed Typhula); simple, recep- 

 tacle smooth white stem dark red. Fr. Syst. Mi/c. v. \.p. 495. 

 ^Clav. gyrans, t, 1 12. With. v. 4. p. 316. Part. Midi. FL v. 2. 

 p. 694. V. 3. p. 471. — C. crythropus, Pers. Cotnm. p. 84. Syn, 

 p. 696. t. 2. f. 14. — Phacorhiza erythropus, Grev. Scot. Crypt. 

 FLt.4S. FL Ed. p. 415. 



On various decaying vegetable substances. Not uncommon. Ofterr 

 growing on some species of Sclerotium — 3 lines — 1 inch high. Stem 

 often flexuous. A variety of this, if not a distinct species, occurs now 

 and then on fallen leaves, 1 — 3 lines high, without any tuber, the stem 

 either white, like the receptacle, or brownish, but not red. In other 

 respects 1 can perceive no difference. 



4. T. tenuis, Sow. [slejider black Typhulci) ; gregarious simple 

 smooth black very slender incrassated above. Fr. Syst. Myc. 

 V. 1./?. 495. — Clav. tenuis, Sow. t. 386. y. 5. 



Tlotten wood. Mead Place, Lambeth, in a coal cellar in dan^p 



weather " It resembles a little black hair thickening upwards.'* 



Sow. I. c. 



5. T. Jilijonuis, Bull, (thread-like Typhula) ; somewliat 

 branched reddi^ih-brown, receptacles clavate whitish. Fr. Syst. 

 Nye. V. 1. p. 496.— Clav. Jiliformis, Bull. t. 448. /. 1. Sow. 

 t. 387. — Himantia lateritia, Pers. Syn. p. 704. 



On fallen leaves. — " Decumbent, creeping, free, subflexuous, brown, 

 cinereous brown or (generally) brick-red." Fr. I. c. According to 

 8ovverby it resembles Byssus barbata, E. B. [Ozonium auricumum). 



21. Pistillaria. Fr. Pistillaria. 



Receptacle slender, cylindrical, without any distinct stem. 

 Hymeniiun even, occupying the whole surface, but producing 

 sporules only in the upper part. Asci obsolete. — Name, from 

 the column or pistil-like form of the plant. 



1. P. micajis, Pers. ((jlittering red Pistillaria) ; ohovate or 

 clavate rose-coloured glittering with the sporules, stem very 

 short M'hite. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. \. p. 497. — Clavaria acrosper- 

 7nuni, IIof))n. Fl. Germ. t. 7.f. 2. — Clavaria inicans, Pers. Syn. 

 p. 604. 



On dead Thistles, Cambridge : 2i<v. JM. J. Btrhrhy. — Very minute, 

 not a line liigh. The 7*. rnbicuiida oi (li\ru\. in Hook. Jhrb., appears 

 to be a state of this species, which evidently, from the account of 

 Albertini and Schweintz, varies from obovate to snl)clavale. The 

 head, in the dry |)lant, nods, as described by those authors. The figure 

 in Sturnj's JJcutschl. II., by Corda (Sclcromytra coccinea) is very 

 niucii exaggerated. 



2. P. pubtrula, Berk, (smaller Fern Pistillaria) ; wliite, 

 receptacle obovute, stem subdistinct more or less pubescent. 

 Clavaria obiusa, How. t. 334. f. 2. 



