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FAM. II. 



CLAVARIEAE. 



Fleshy, not coriaceous ; erect, simple and club-shaped or 

 TarioiTsly branched ; hymenium covering the whole of the 

 sporophore. 



Distinguished from the Thelephoreae, as Lachiodadium 

 (not British), that grow erect, and are branched and Clavaria- 

 like by being soft and fleshy and not subcoriaceous, and also 

 in having the hymenium completely surrounding the hymeno- 

 phore, and not confined to one side, as in Lachnocladium. 



KEY TO THE GENEBA. 



* Very much, hranched, branches compressed, plate-lihe, crisped. 

 Sparassis. 



** Club-shaped and simple or variously branched, branches 



terete. 



f Stem distinct from hymenophore. 

 Typhula. 



ff Stem not distinct from hymenophore. 



Clavaria. — Fleshy, simple or branched, branches terete. 



Pistillaria. — Minute, club-shaped, simple, rigid when 

 dry. 



Ptenila. — Small, branches very numerous and very slen- 

 der, forming a brush-like tuft. 



