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Genus III. — Typhula, Pers. 



Fungi minute, tender ; stipe filiform, either heterogeneous and 

 distinct from the linear club, or springing from a sclerotioid hyber- 

 naculum. Hymenium waxy, sporophores forked, spicules elon- 

 gated. Fungi epiphytal. 



I. T. MUSCICOLA, Pers. Simple, filiform; the club cylindric, 

 obtuse, white, tapering into the slender, smooth stipe ; hyber 

 naculum even, pallid. 



Growing on mosses; not uncommon. One-half to i inch in 

 height. Our plant is smaller than the one described by Fries, but 

 it is referred to this species by several authorities. It was also 

 noted by Mr. Lea. Further than this the minute Clavariei appear 

 to be absent from the Miami Valley. 



Order VI. — Tremellinei. 



The whole fungus homogeneous, gelatinous, shrinking when 

 dry, reviving when wet, traversed internally by branched filaments 

 which termmate at the surface in sporophores; spores subreniform. 



TABLE OF GENERA OF TREMELLINEI. 



a. Hyvicniuni ovei' the whole oiitei- surface. 



I. Tremella. Gelatinous-distended, tremulous, immarginate, 

 not papillate. 



,2 ExiDiA. Gelatinous-distended, tremulous, submarginate, 

 papillose. 



3. N/EMATELiA. Convex, immarginate, a firm nucleus covered 

 by a thick gelatinous stratum. 



4. Dacrymyces. Gelatinous, homogeneous, conidia moniliform- 

 concatenate, spores septate. 



b. Hymenium on one side only. 



5. Hirneola. Cartilaginous gelatinous, the hymenium superior. 



6. Guepinia. Cartilaginous-gelatinous, stipitate, the hymenium 

 unilateral. 



Genus I. — Tremei.la, Dill. 



Fungi distended with jelly, tremulous, immarginate, not papillate; 

 sporophores globose, becoming four-parted, putting out from each 

 part an elongated free spicule terminated by a simple spore. 



