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86 Cincinnati Society of Natural Hisforx. 



From the Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, July-October, 1888. 



77rs^-^6- 



THE MYCOLOGIC FLORA OF THE MIAMI VALLEY, 



OHIO. 



Bv A. P. Morgan. 



(Continued fr< m \'ol. X , p. 202.) 



Class I. — Hymenomycetes. (Concluded.) 



(Read by Title August 7, 1888.) 



Order V. — Clavariei. 



Hymenium not discrete from the hymenophore, amphigenous 

 Fungi somewhat fleshy, vertical, simple or branched; never 



coriaceous or incrusting like those Thelephora; wliich are similar 



in form. 



As other fleshy fungi, very limited in number in this region. 



TABLE OF GENERA OF CLAVARIEI. 



1. Clavaria. Fungi fleshy, simple or branched. 



2. Calocera. Fungi cartilaginous-gelatinous, horny when dry. 



3. Typhula. Minute fungi, subclavate, witti a filiform stipe. 



Genus I. — Clavaria, Linn. 



Fungi fleshy, branched or simple, subterete and without a dis- 

 tinct stipe. Hymenium contiguous, dry, homogeneous. 



'=^ Branched. 



A. Spores white. 



a. Terrestrial, 1-7. 



b. Lignatile, 8, 9. 



B. Spores ochraceous. 



c. Terrestrial, 10-13. 



d. Lignatile, 14, 15. 



** Simple. 



^ e. Csespitose,- 16-18. 



■^ f. Distinct, 19, 20. 



'^\ • I. Ramaria. Branched, the branches tapering upward. 



^ A. Spores white or pallid. 



y a. Growing on the ground. 



