TYPHULA 721 



*Springing from a sclerotium at the base. 



2454. T. erythropus (Bolt.) Fr. Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. t. 43, as 

 Phacoriza erythropus. epvQpos, red; TTOV^, foot. 



R. 1-2 cm. high, club white, 4-6 mm. long, cylindrical, linear, 

 smooth. Stem reddish black, 12 mm., filiform, often twisted, springing 

 from an elliptical, brown, or blackish sclerotium (sclerotium some- 

 times wanting), clothed with concolorous hairs at the base. Spores 

 white, oblong, or subcylindrical, sometimes depressed on the side, 

 6-9 x 3-4/i. Dead leaves, and sticks, and dead herbaceous stems. 

 Sept. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



2455. T. phacorrhiza (Reich.) Fr. Stev. Brit. Fung, n, p. 304, fig. 94. 



<a/eo5, a lentil; pia, root. 



R. 2-5-7-5 cm. high, brownish, filiform, acute, paler and tomentose 

 at the base, flexuose, springing from a compressed, pallid, then fuscous 

 sclerotium. Flesh concolorous. Spores white, subglobose, 7-8 x 7jn, 

 with a large central gutta. Dead leaves, and herbaceous stems. Oct. 

 Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2456. T. incarnata (Lasch) Fr. Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. t. 93, as 

 Phacorhiza filiformis. Incarnata, flesh colour. 



R. 5-10 cm. high, whitish, fiesh colour upwards, filiform, cylindrical, 

 attenuated and hairy downwards, springing from a compressed, fus- 

 cous sclerotium. Spores white, "subglobose, 5 x 4/i," Massee. Dead 

 herbaceous stems. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



2457. T. gyrans (Batsch) Fr. yvpos, a circle. 

 R. 1-4 cm. high, white, very slender, subcylindrical, or subfusi- 



form, 3 5 mm. long; stem hyaline, diaphanous, filiform, pubescent, 

 springing from an elliptical, pallid, then fuscous sclerotium. Spores 

 white, "oblong, 56 x 2 /A" Pat. Straw, dead stems of grasses, and 

 twigs. Oct. Uncommon. 

 T. muscicola (Pers.) Fr. = Eocronartium muscicola (Pers.) Fitzpat. 



**No sclerotium at the base. 



2458. T. Grevfflei Fr. 



Dr Robert Kaye Greville, the eminent Scotch mycologist. 



R. 5-12 mm. high, white, club elliptical, 2-3 mm., obtuse. Stem 



filiform, pilose. Spores white, pip-shaped, or oblong with a lateral 



apiculus, 4-5 x 2/i. Dead leaves, especially alder, and poplar. Sept. 



Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



2459. T. filiformis (Bull.) Fr. Bull. Hist. Champ. Fr. t. 448, fig. 1, 

 as Clavaria filiformis. Filum, a thread ; forma, shape. 



R. 2-5-7-5 cm. high, club white, cylindrical, fusiform; stem date 



B. B. B. 46 



