194 Transactions British Mycological Society. 



the past 15 years. Specimens, however, were forwarded by 

 Mr. C. G. Lloyd from Sweden and Mr. W. B. Allen from 

 Germany. 



35. C. FiSTULOSA Fr., Syst. Myc. i. p. 479; Lind in Ann. 



Myc. V. 1907, p. 272. 



C. fistiuosa Holmsk., Beata niris, 1790, p. 15, tab. 6; C. 

 pilipes Miill., Flor. Dan. tab. 1076, fig. i; C. Ardenia Sow., 

 Col. Fig. tab. 215; C. strigosa Schum., Enum. PI. Saell. 1801, 

 p. 403; C. macrorhiza Sw., Vet. Ak. Handl. 1811, tab. 6, fig. i. 



Illustrations: Holmskiold, Fung. Dan. i. 1799, tab. 6; 

 Harper in Mycologia, x. 1918, tabs. 3, 4, figs. A, B; Flora 

 Danica, tab. 1076, fig. i, tab. 1256; Sowerby, loc. cit.; Migula 

 in Thome, Flora von Deutschl. iii. 2, i, tab. 24 b, fig. 2. 



Plants simple, solitary or two to three together, erect, tough, 

 narrowly clavate, 5-8 cm. high or more; smell and taste none. 

 Clubs at first yellowish, then date-brown, cylindrical or clavate, 

 often twisted, smooth, hollow with age, occasionally branching 

 at the apex. Stem with whitish fibrils. Flesh not distinct in 

 colour. Internal structure characterised by possessing a system 

 of laticiferous hyphae, unseptate, frequently branched, 6/x in 

 diameter, contents granular. Basidia conspicuous, about 40/x 

 long, contents finely granular; sterigmata 4, erect. Spores 

 hyaline, smooth, pip-shaped, with often irregular outline, 

 10-17 '^ 7~9l^ (average 13-15 x Sfx.), contents guttulate or 

 granular. 



Habitat. On fallen branches lying amongst dead leaves. 

 Rare. 



According to Lind, in Denmark this species occurs chiefly 

 on branches of beech, whereas C. contorta is usually on alder. 

 Harper, however, finds C. fistulosa always on sticks buried 

 amongst leaves in coniferous woods. Both writers agree that 

 the spores of C. fistulosa are smaller than those of C. contorta, 

 and this observation is borne out in the British specimens 

 examined. 



36. C. CONTORTA Fr., Syst. Myc. i. p. 478; Lind in Ann. 



Myc. V. 1907, p. 272; Cotton in Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. 

 ii. 1906, p. 165, and iii. 1910, p. 266. 



C. cojttorta Holmsk., Beata ruris, 1790, p. 29, tab. 12; 

 Tremella ferruginea Schum., Enum. PI. Saell. 1801, p. 443. 



Illustrations: Holmskiold, loc. cit. tab. 12; Flora Danica, 

 tab. 1852, fig. i; Harper in Mycologia, x. 1918, tab. 4, fig. C; 

 Boudier in Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. xxxiii. 1917, tab. i, fig. 5. 



Plants erumpent, 2-3 cm. high, contorted, irregularly^ 

 branched; smell and taste none. Clubs pale yellowish-drab, 



