TYPHULA. 89 



Typhula phacorrhiza. Fries. 



Simple, 1-3 in. high, slender, springing from a compressed 

 brownish sclerotium ; glabrous, brownish, and often flexuous 

 below, pallid above ; spores 8-9 X 4-5 p. 



Typhula phacorrhiza, Fries., Epicr., p. 585 ; Stev., Brit. 

 Fung., p. 304, fig. xciv. 



On dead leaves, herbaceous stems, &c. The stem is some- 

 times minutely velvety at the base. Fertile portion not at 

 all thickened. 



Typhula incarnata. Lasch. 



Whitish, more or less tinged with pink above, cylindric- 

 clavate, 1-2 in. high, base minutely strigose, springing from 

 a compressed brownish sclerotium ; spores subglobose, 4 X 

 5ft. 



TypTiula incarnata, Lasch, in Fries' Epicr., p. 585 ; Stev., 

 Fung. Brit., p. 305. 



On dead herbaceous stems, &c. Slightly thickened gradu- 

 ally upwards, apex obtuse, rarely forked. Allied to T. 

 phacorrhiza, but clearly distinguished by the form and size 

 of the spores. 



Typhula gyrans. Fries. 



White; stem very thin and thread-like, often gyrose, 

 pubescent; club cylindrical, or subovate, thicker than the 

 stem ; springing from a small brownish sclerotium ; spores 

 subglobose, 5 x 6 p.. 



Typhula gyrans, Fries, Epicr., p. 585 ; Stev., Brit. Fung., 

 p. 3(5. 



On dead stems of grasses, &c. Whole fungus f in. high ; 

 stem very thin, straight or variously waved or gyrose. 



Var. Grevillei. VV hite, unbranched, club thickened, obtuse, 

 stem hair-like, pubescent ; not springing from a sclerotium. 



Typhula Grevillei, Fr., Hym. Eur., p. 685; Stev., Fung., 

 p. 305. 



On dead leaves, &c. 



Typhula muscicola. Fries. 



White, 2-3 in. high, base thin, gradually expanding into a 

 cylindrical, obtuse club up to 2 lines in thickness ; spores 

 5-6 x 3 u. 



