332 OUTLINES OF BRITISH FUNGOLOGY. 



On prostrate trunks. Batheaston. 

 7. C. glossoides, Fr. (p. 281) ; I in. 



Genus 53. PTERULA, Fr. 



Cartilaginous, filiform, arid, equal, without a distinct 

 stem ; hymenium pubescent, then smooth ; simple or 

 branched. 



1. P. subulata, Fr. ; \\ in. ; densely crowded, tense and 

 straight, thread-like, equal except at attenuated base ; 

 sparingly branched, branches growing into each other, 

 whitish cinereous, multifid at apex, awl-shaped, smooth, 

 becoming yellow. — Linn. 1830, /. 11, /. 4. 



On wood. Burnham Beeches. 



2. P. multifida, Fr. ; 1-2 in. ; pallid-whitish, then dirty 

 pale-yellowish ; very much branched, very delicate, flaccid, 

 slightly tough ; branches tense and straight, almost hair- 

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

 shaped at apex, same colour. 



On dead branches. 



Genus 54. TYPHULA, Fr. (p. 284). 

 I. PiiACORiiiiiz.*:. — Springing from sderotioid liyhernacula. 



1. T. erythropus, Fr. (p. 284) ; \ in. 



2. T. phacorrhiza, Fr. (p. 284) ; 3-4 in. Epping Forest. 



3. T. incarnata, Lascli. (p. 285). 



4. T. gyrans, Fr. ; white ; simple, very tender, somewhat 

 cylindrical ; stem thin, pubescent ; hybernaculum pallid, 

 becoming fuscous. — Batsch. f. 164. 



On straw, etc. Uncommon. The hybernaculum is 

 Sclerotium complanatum. 



5. T. musicola, Fr. (p. 285) ; 2-3 in. 



