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Fructification coriaceous, branched, somewhat tomentose. Is hkely 

 to be confused with Clavaria or Thelephora ; our species is 

 bitter ....... Lachnocladium 



Fructification waxy then horny, stilT, Unear or subclavate or sub- 

 capitate ; stem short or obsolete ' . . . Pistillaria 



Fructification waxy, capitate ; head subglobose, hollow, thin- walled, 

 inflated ; stem filiform ..... Physalacria 



Fam. 6. TREMELLACEAE. 



A Basidia elongated or fusoid, transversely septate and plurilocular. 



Fructification coriaceous, like Stereum in form, eflfuso-reflexed ; 

 hymenium gelatinous, reticulate or ribbed . . Auricularia 



Fructification cartilaginous-gelatinous, usually cup-shaped or ear- 

 shaped, when dry coriaceous-horny ; hymenium gelatinous, 

 even or plicate ....... Hirneola 



Fructification capitate, stipitate, not gelatinous ; hymenium covered 

 by a peridium-like sheath when young ; spores globose, brown 



Pilacre 



B. Basidia globose or ovoid, when mature longitudinally and 

 cruciately 4-parted, rarely continuous. 



Fructification cupulate-truncate or efTused, often papillose, bearing 

 but one kind of spores ; spores reniform, continuous, becoming 

 2- to 4-celled on germinating .... Exidia 



Fructification pulvinate, gyrose, bearing but one kind of spores ; 

 spores reniform, continuous, becoming 2 -celled on germinating 



Ulocolla 



Fructification effused, incrusting ; hymenium gelatinous, heteros- 

 porous, producing at first ovoid conidia and at length reniform 

 basidiospores ....... Sebacina 



Fructification pulvinate or effused, cerebriform, heterosporous or 

 homosporous ; basidiospores, conidia and sporidiola globose or 

 ovoid, always continuous ..... Tremeila 



Fructification as in Tremella but with a fleshy-hardened mass in 

 its interior ....... Naeniatelia 



Fructification erect, spathulate, coriaceous-gelatinous ; spores ovoid- 

 pyriform, continuous ..... Gyrocephalus 



