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III. HoLOCORYNE. Mostly simple, distinct at the base. 



19. C. piSTiLLARis, Linn. Simple, large, fleshy, stuffed, obo- 

 vate-clavate, obtuse, yellow, then rufescent. 



On the ground in woods; rare. Very large, solitary or only a 

 few together; the club attaining a length of 6 inches or more and 

 a thickness of about an inch at the summit, the color rather vari- 

 able growing darker with age. 



20. C. MUCiDA, Pers. Gregarious, minute, simple or sparingly 

 ramose-incised, even, naked, white, becoming yellowish, glabrous, 

 substipitate. 



On old damp logs; very common in all seasons. Usually grow- 

 ing on a thin greenish stratum, C/ilorococcus, very small, scarcely 

 exceeding half an inch in height. 



Genus II. — Calocera, Fr. 



Fungi gelatinous-cartilaginous, horny when dry, vertical, sub- 

 cylindric, simple or branched, viscid, without a distinct stipe. 

 Hymenium amphigenous, sporophores two-forked; spores oblong, 

 curved. 



1. C. PALMATA, Schum. Branched, tremellose-tough, orange- 

 yellow, compressed, dilated upward, divided ; the branchlets 

 subterete, divaricate, obtuse. 



On oak wood; rare. About half an inch in height, with a 

 flattened stem, branched and forked toward the summit. 



2. C. CORNEA, Batsch. Ca^spitose, rootmg, even, viscid, yellow- 

 orange ; clubs short, subulate, connate at the base. 



On old wood; common. About one-quarter of an inch in 

 height, consisting of many single individuals fused together at the 

 base; rooting in the cracks of the wood and growing out of them. 



3. C. STRiCTA, Fr. Simple, solitary, elongated, blunt at the 

 base, linear, yellow even when dry. 



On old wood ; common. One-half to i inch in length ; encircled 

 at the base by a white delicate tomentum. It differs from the pre- 

 ceding species in its scattered mode of growth and slender habit ; 

 two or three individuals occasionally spring from the same spot, 

 but they are never extensively confluent. This is evidently the 

 same species as Clavaria albipes, Mont., described in the Annales 

 lies Sciences Naturelies, October, 1842, p. 14. It was collected at 

 Columbus, Ohio, by Mr. Sullivant and communicated to Montagne 

 through Dr. Asa Gray. It appears as Calocera albipes in Berkeley's 

 Notices N. A. Fungi under No. 303. 



