88 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



several finely-pointed branchlets, greyish- white, becoming 

 pale amber; spores elliptical, 8-10 x 6-7 p. 



Pterula subulata, Fr., Hym. Eur., p. 682; Stev., Brit. 

 Fung. ii. p. 303. 



On wood. Forming dense tufts 12 in. high, consisting of 

 numerous crowded equal branches as thin as thread, becoming 

 rather horny when dry ; the branches frequently become 

 connected by cross portions or anastomose irregularly. 



Pterula multifida. Fr. 



Usually fasciculate, several individuals forming a dense 

 tuft ; branches very numerous, thin, subequal, much divided, 

 tips pointed, springing from a slender, more or less elongated 

 stem-like base, rather tough, whitish, becoming pale amber 

 and cartilaginous when dry, spores elliptical, 10 X 6-7 p.. 



Pterula multifida, Fr., Hym. Eur., p. 682 ; Stev., B. Fung., 

 ii. p. 304. 



On dead leaves, branches, &c. Tufts 1-2 in. high, com- 

 posed of densely-crowded, ascending, much-divided branches 

 as thin as a thread ; base sometimes thick, at others con- 

 sisting of several thin stems more or less confluent. 



TYPHULA. Pers. (fig. 5, p. 74.) 



Epiphytal. Club slender, cylindrical, rarely clavate ; stem 

 filiform, distinct from hymenium, often springing from a 

 sclerotium. 



TypJiula, Pers., Syn., p. 38, emended by Fries, Epicr., p. 584. 



Separated from Clavaria and Pistillaria by having the 

 stein distinct from the hymenium. Generally minute, slen- 

 der fungi in the typical species resembling the reed-mace, 

 TypJia, in miniature ; hence the generic name. 



Typhula erythropus. Fr. (fig. 5, p. 74.) 

 Simple, -f in. high, springing from a depressed, wrinkled 



blackish sclerotium ; stem in. long or more, very slender, 



dark red; club 2-4 lines long, white, cylindrical, slender; 



spores 6-6 x 2-2 5 /x. 



TypJiula erythropus, Fries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 495 ; Stev., 



Fung., p. 304. 



On dead herbaceous stems. The sclerotium is sometimes 



absent. Fertile portion not much if at all thicker than stem. 



