728 AURICULABIA. EOCRONARTITJM. STILBUM 



2482. A. polytricha (Mont.) Pat. (= Hirneola polytricha Mont.) 

 Jungh. Fl. Crypt. Jav. Ins. t. 13, as Exidia purpurascens. 



TroXvOpii;, with much hair. 



R. 2-8 cm., greyish, cup-shaped, hemispherical, then expanded and 

 ear-shaped, sessile, or extended behind into a short, oblique stem; 

 margin undulate, densely covered on the outside with long, obtuse, 

 greyish or tawny hairs, 400 x 5-9 fj,. Hymenium pale, then brownish 

 purple, and finally becoming blackish, smooth. Flesh pale, or brownish, 

 subgelatinous, then horny, tough, elastic, thick. Spores white, sub- 

 reniform, "20-22 x 8/z," Sacc.; basidia cylindrical, 85-90 x 6-7 p, 

 3-septate. Wooden fire blocks. April Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



Eocronartium Atkinson 

 (= Clavaria p.p. ; Helicobasidium sec. Pat.). 

 (970)9, dawn; cronartium, the genus Cronartium.) 

 Receptacle subgelatinous, tough, filamentous, erect, filiform, or subu- 

 late. Hymenium smooth. Basidia cylindrical, transversely 3-septate. 

 Spores white, continuous, producing a mycelium on germination. 

 Growing on mosses. 



2483. E. muscicola (Pers.) Fitzpat. (= Typhula muscicola (Pers.) Fr.) 

 Pers. Obs. Myc. n, t. 3, fig. 2, as Clavaria muscicola Pers. 



Muscus, moss; colo, I inhabit. 



R. 5-7-5 cm. high, white, simple, filiform, clavate, club cylindrical, 

 attenuated into a thin, long, smooth st., obtuse, 2-4 mm. thick. Flesh 

 white, thin. Spores white, " fusoid, curved or inequilateral, granular, 

 18-24 x 3-5-5 ju," Atk. Basidia cylindrical, "curved, or more or less 

 sinuous, 25-40 x 6-9/x, 3-5-septate. Sterigmata flexuous elongate, 

 usually 10-20 x 3-4ja" Atk. Mosses. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



Stilbum (Tode) Juel. 



(o-Tt'X/3&>, I shine.) 



Receptacle erect, globose, stipitate. Hymenium consisting of 

 branched threads terminated by a basidium. Basidia short, pear- 

 shaped, transversely 1-septate. Spores white, elliptical. Growing on 

 dead wood. 



2484. S. vulgare (Tode) Juel. Tode, Fung. Mecklenb. t. 2, fig. 16. 



Vulgare, common. 



R. 1-2 mm. high, white, then yellowish, globose. St. concolorous, 

 becoming thinner upwards, fibrous, smooth. Spores white, "ellip- 

 tical, hyaline, 8 x 5-6 /n" Massee. Rotten wood, oak cupules, etc. 

 Sept. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



