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PHACORIZA ERYTHROPÜS.
Pink-Stemmed Phacoriza.
C l a s s a n d O r d b r CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, Linn—N a t . O r d . FU N G I, Link, Juss. &c.
GEN ERIC CHARACTER.
Hymenium clavatum vel JUiforme cum stipite plerumque plus minusve cmfiuens.
Stipes tubérculo radiculi insidens.
Hymenium (fructifying surface) club-shaped or filiform, generally more or
less confluent with the stem, which arises from a small radicular tuber.
S PE C IF IC c h a r a c t e r .
P h a c o r h i z a e r y t h r o p u s ; minuta, gregaria ; hymenio loevi, albo, lineari ; stipite
elongato, filiformi, rubente, et tuberculi cèntro insidente.
P. minute, gregarious ; hymenium smooth, white, linear ; stem elongated filiform,
red, arising from the centre of a small tuber.
P h a c o r h i z a erythropus, Grev. Fl. Fdin. ined.
C la v a r i a e rythropus, Pers. Comment, p. 84.—Syn. Fung. p. 606— Mycol.
Furop. V. 1. p. 1 9 1 Alb. et Schrv. p. 293.— De Cand. Fl. Franç. v. 6.
p. 28.—Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. 1 . p. 658.
Clavaria gyrans. Bolt. Fung. t. 112.— With. Bot. Arr. ed. 6. v. 4. p. 430.—
Purt. Midi. FL v. 2. p. 694. et v. 3. p. 471.—B,elh. Fl. Cant. ed. 3. p. 562.
T vphula erythropus, Fries, Obs. Mycol. v. 2. p. 297-—Syst. Mycol. v. 1.
p. 495.
H ad. In woods and shady places, on dead leaves, sticks, and straws, often
with the tuber within the hollow of the latter. Woods at Balmuto; in
the autumn.
Whole plant never more than an inch high, often not more than half, gregarious.
Hymenium smooth, white, linear or linear-oblong, about one-third
of the height of the plant. Stem erect, often flexuose, filiform, much
finer than the hymenium, but passing suddenly into it, pink-red, arising
from the centre of a small, circular, depressed, b u t convex tuber, which
is often concealed within the sheaths or culms of dead grasses. The tu ber
is dark-brown, somewhat rugose, and little more than a line in
diameter.
P ersoon, in the first part of his Mycologia Europcca,
has instituted a new genus, under the name of Phacorhiza,
of a plant very nearly allied to Clavaria, discovered by Dr
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