724 PISTILLARIA. PTERULA 



Flesh white, tough. Spores white, "elliptical, 5 x 3/x" Massee. Dead 

 stems of herbaceous plants, especially umbellifers. May Nov. Un- 

 common. 



2471. P. puberula Berk. Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 334, fig. 2, as Clavaria 

 obtusa. Puberula, somewhat downy. 



R. 26 mm. high, white, obovate, ventricose ; stem short, distinct, 

 equal, or attenuated upwards, pellucid, tomentose. Flesh white, be- 

 coming firm. Spores white, "elliptical, 5 x 3/x" Massee. Dead 

 bracken stems. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2472. P. pusffla (Pers.) Fr. Pusilla, very small. 

 R. -52 mm. high, white, linear, or slightly thickened upwards, 



nodding when dry, smooth, even, with no distinct stem. Flesh white, 

 soft, then firm. Spores white, oblong elliptical, 10 x 4^t; basidia with 

 2-sterigmata. Dead leaves. Sept. Feb. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



****Purple. 



2473. P. purpurea W. G. Sm. Purpurea, purple. 

 R. 2 mm. high, purple, obovate. St. whitish. Spores white, 4 x 3/x. 



Damp rotten leaves. Rare. 



Pterula Fr. 



(irrepov, a feather.) 



Receptacle firm, tough, filiform, branched, or simple, branches 

 equal. Hymenium smooth. Spores white, oval, elliptical, or pip- 

 shaped, smooth; basidia with 2 4-sterigmata. Cystidia none, or in- 

 conspicuous. Growing on the ground, or on wood. 



2474. P. subulate Fr. Subulata, awl-shaped. 

 R. 3-4 cm. high, whitish cinereous, densely branched, tense and 



straight, equal, except at the attenuated base, tough. Branches be- 

 coming yellow, growing into each other, multifid at the apex, awl- 

 shaped, smooth, not thicker than a fine thread. Spores white, "oval, 

 8-10 x 5-7 /LI" Rabenh. Densely tufted. On wood amongst pines 

 and in gardens. Uncommon. 



2475. P. multifida Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 200, fig. 2. Multifida, many cleft. 

 R. 2-5-5 cm. high, pallid whitish, then dirty pale yellowish, and 



finally brownish, almost black when dried, very much branched, very 

 delicate, flaccid, but slightly tough. Branches tense and straight, not 

 much thicker than a hair, heaped as if swept together, subfastigiate, 

 apex spear-shaped, or crisped. Spores white, pip-shaped, or elliptical, 

 depressed on one side with a lateral apiculus, 6 x 3/i, contents 

 granular. Dead branches and running over pine needles. Sept. 

 Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



