Matiola paludosa Fr. in oak laces, in a marshy stream at Newwood 6 April 1839. Receptacle ovate, inflated, obtuse, closely constricting at its base the distinct stem. Spores preprimes, pilous orange, ovate, obtuse, stem inconspicuous obtuse. Stem upwards 4 or 5 inch in height, tapering towards the tip where it is acute, but at the base for 1/3 of the way up with numerous hairs, of which some are rigid, subulatulated, shorter, others longer more curved the entire shagging appearing dark brown; the stem is divided into 2-3 distinct parts, at the top it expands into an ovate obtuse receptacle in which is the Hypocrium a yellowish-orange layer much thinner than the sides of the receptacle; their sides consist of parallel bundles of filaments interwoven, pale & similar to the stem. The Hypocrium consists of laterally adherent parallel filaments or tubes which divide into spindles is indistinct but yet sharply individual under an inferior lens: twisted then filaments may be seen to divide into linear granular spindles.