720 CLAVABIA. TYPHULA 



matous in transverse section, cells av. 10/z in diam." Cotton. Iso- 

 lated, or in twos or threes. Amongst short grass in woods, pastures, 

 shady lawns, and in flower-pots. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2451. C. Crosslandii Cotton. 



Charles Crossland, the well-known Yorkshire mycologist. 

 R. 2-3 cm. high, 13 mm. thick, greyish white, or grey, becoming 

 darker with age, cylindrical, apex usually pointed, brittle. Stem 

 hardly distinct. Flesh somewhat darker than the hymenium. Spores 

 white, pip-shaped, 4-5 x 2-5-3 /z; basidia 20-25 x 4 5 /A, with 4- 

 sterigmata, contents granular. Internal structure pseudoparenchy- 

 matous in transverse section, cells 5-8 /n in diam. Isolated, or fascicu- 

 late. Amongst short grass in woods. Sept. Rare. 



2452. C. tenerrima Massee & Crossl. (? = Clavaria acuta (Sow.) Fr. 

 sec. Cotton.) Tenerrima, very delicate. 



R. 1-5-4 cm. high, 1-2 mm. thick, hyaline or shining white, simple, 

 cylindrical, flexuose, smooth, subattenuated above, but by no means 

 acute, not narrowed at the base, stuffed, firm. Spores hyaline, verru- 

 cose, subglobose, apiculate, 8-9 p; basidia with 4-sterigmata. Gre- 

 garious but distinct at the base. Amongst short grass. 

 C. uncialis Grev. = Pistillaria uncialis (Grev.) Cost. & Dufour. 



***Rosy. 



2453. C. incarnata Weinm. Incarnata, flesh colour. 

 R. 1-4 cm. high, 2-3 mm. thick, flesh colour, or rosy, cylindrical, or 



compressed, pointed, or blunt, pruinose, base whitish, hairy, solid. 

 Flesh purple, sometimes white, firm. Spores white, broadly elliptical, 

 or pear-shaped, 10 x 6-7 p, 1-guttulate; " basidia 35-40 x 7-8(-10)/Lt, 

 contents finely granular, with 4 erect sterigmata. Hyphae loosely 

 interwoven, frequently septate, cells 50-100 x 5-10/i, with trumpet- 

 shaped expansions in the subhymenial layer, pseudoparenchymatous 

 in transverse section" Cotton & Wakef. Gregarious. Bare soil in 

 woods. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



Typhula (Pers.) Fr. 

 (Typha, the reed-mace.) 



Receptacle fleshy, waxy, or tough, erect, simple, very rarely 

 branched, cylindrically clavate, with a long, thin stem, often springing 

 from a sclerotium. Hymenium smooth, confined to the clavate portion 

 of the receptacle. Spores white, oblong, ovate, subglobose, pip- 

 shaped, or subcylindrical, smooth; basidia clavate, with 2-4-sterig- 

 mata. Cystidia none, or inconspicuous. Growing on dead leaves, 

 herbaceous stems, twigs and wood. 



