CLAVARIEI. 



Pteruia. 2. P. multifida Fr. Height 2.5-5 cent - ( z - 2 i n -X at the first 



pallid whitish then (especially when dried), dirty pale yellowish, 

 very much branched, very delicate, flaccid but slightly tough. 

 Branches tense and straight, not much thicker than a hair, 

 heaped as if swept together, somewhat fastigiate, spear-shaped 

 at the apex, of the same colour. 



On dead branches. Sept. 



Namemultus, many ; findo, to cleave. From the multitude of branches 

 into which it is cleft. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 682. Monogr. ii. p. 282. B. & 

 Br. n. 1304. 



Typhula. GENUS LIV. Typhula (Typha, the Reed-mace, which it some- 

 what resembles in miniature. Berk.} Pers. Fr. Epicr. p. 584. 



Minute tender fungi with a filiform stem, which is either 

 heterogeneous and distinct from the linear club, or springs from 

 a sclerotioid hybernaculum. Hymenium waxy, sporophores 

 forked, spicules elongated. Growing on plants. Fr. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 682. 



I. PHACORRHIZ^E (4>a*o?, a lentil ; pia, a root, from the sclerotioid root). 

 Springing from sclerotioid hybernacula. 



II. LEPTORRHIZ^: (\e7n-6s, slender; /*, a root). Radical tubercle (Sclero- 

 tium) not discovered or awanting. 



I. PHACORRHIZ^E. Springing from sclerotioid hybernacula. 



1. T. erythropus Fr. Simple, club 

 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) long, white, linear, 

 cylindrical, smooth; stem elongated, 

 12 mm. (y z in.), filiform, reddish- 

 black, hybernaculum depressed, 

 blackish. 



The hybernaculum (sometimes awanting) 

 is Sclerotium scutellatum. 



On dead stems of herbaceous 

 plants. Common. Autumn. 



XCIV. Typhula phacorrhlza. 

 One-half natural size. 



Name epuflpos, red ; TTOVS, a foot. Red- 

 stemmed. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 683. Syst. 

 Myc. \. p. 495. Berk. Out. p. 284. C. Hbk. 

 n. 999. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 952. Fl. Dan. 

 t. 2030. Bolt. t. 112. Grev. t. 43. 



2. T. phacorrhiza Fr. Pallid, be- 



