lO 



Fructification dimidiate, gelatinous, with hymenium covering teeth 

 as in Hydnum ....... Tremellodon 



C. Basidia cyhndric-clavate, not longitudinally septate but merely 

 forked at the outer end and with each portion terminating at 

 its apex in a single sterigma. 



Fructification pulvinate, gyrose ; basidia 2-spored; spores cross- 

 septate or muriform when mature . . . Dacryomyces 



Fructification unequally cupulate, often stipitate ; basidia 2-spored 



Gucpinia 



Fructification erect, elongated, simple or branched, cartilaginous- 

 gelatinous, horny when dry; basidia 2-spored . Calocera 



Fructification globose-pulvinate, minute, subgelatinous ; hyphae 

 forked or branched, bearing conidia in chains. — Regarded as 

 probably the conidial stage of a species of the Tremellaceae, 

 but the basidiosporic stage is unknown . . Hormotnyces 



GASTEROMVCETES. 



A. Fructification above ground during the whole or the last of its de- 

 velopment, only rarely buried in the ground . . 7-9 



7' Fructification fleshy but with gelatinous portions ; receptaculum 

 breaking out and rising from a volva ; gleba consisting of hyme- 

 nial and tramal tissue, fleshy, then deliquescent and slimy 



Fam. 7. PHALLOIDEAE 



8. Fructification coriaceous, with a single or double pcridium and 

 having in the interior usually several, but rarely one, lenticular 

 or spheroidal sporangiola (peridiola) containing the hymenium; 

 interior never maturing as a powdery mass .... 



Fam. 8. NIDULARIACEAE 



g.' Fructification membranaceous-coriaceous, finally dehiscent in 

 most cases ; gleba fleshy and chambered at first, at length a 

 powdery mass . . . Fam. 9. LYCOPERDACEAE 



B. Fructification subterranean, very rarely groioing above ground. 

 10. Fructification fleshy but rather hardened, remaining closed ; 



gleba fleshy, cellular-cavernous, never a powdery mass ; capil- 

 litium none. Not yet found in Vermont 



Fam. 10. HYMENOGASTRACEAE 



