TYPHULA. 89 



Typhula phacorrhiza. Fries. 



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

 trownish sclerotium ; glabrous, brownish, and' often flexuous 

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



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. Lasoh. 

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

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

 a compressed brownish sclerotium; spoies subglobose, i X, 



Typhula incarnata, Lasoh, in Fries' Epicr., p. 585 ; Stev,, 

 Fung. Brit., p. 306. ■ 



On dead herbaceous stems, &c. Slightly thickened graduf 

 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 gyrosei 

 pubescent; club cylindrical, or subovate, thicker. than ihe 

 stem ; springing from a small brownish sclerotium ; spores 

 subglobose, 5 x 6 /i. . 1 



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

 p. 31 5. 



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

 stem very thin, straight or variously waved or gyrose. 



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

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



Typhula Grevillei, Fr., Hym. Eur., p. 686; Stev., Fung., 

 p. 305. 



On dead leaves, &c. 



Typhula muscieola. Fries. 

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

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

 6-6 X S IX. 



