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CALOCERA 



Plants frrowing on wood, upright, more or less terete throughout, 

 simple or often branched, small, rarely up to 6 cm. high, often in rows 

 from cracks; firm, tough, pliable, viscid, subgelatinous when very wet, 

 orange or yellow, the hymenium covering all the plant except the 

 whitish base (amphigenous). Basidia terete, elongated, forked into 

 two long prongs each of which bears a spore ; spores smooth, yellowish, 

 sausage-shaped, divided into two cells before sprouting. 



The hymenium is much denser than the inner flesh and is com- 

 posed of densely fascicled groups of horizontal basidia which do not 

 mature simultaneously. The plants resemble the Clavarias in form 

 and are separated from them by their tough and more gelatinous 

 structure, viscid surface and long-forked basidia. 



Key to the Species 



Growing on pine, gold or orange color, up to (5 em. liigli..('. riscosa (1) 



Growing on pine, yellow, minute, only up to 2 nun. high..';, cornea var. minima (3) 



Growing on deciduous woods (J. cornea (2) 



1 Calocera viscosa (Pers.) Fr. 



This plant has the form of a Clavaria, about 2-6 cm. high, slender, 

 stalked, several times branched, the tips acute ; color deep golden 

 yellow or orange yellow, orange when drj-, surface very viscid ; texture 

 tough and pliable, the base extending into a slender whitish root. 



Spores oblong, curved, smooth, probably light yellow, about 4.5 x 

 9-11/x, divided into two cells before sprouting. 



Not rare on pine stumps and usuall.y in rows from cracks. We 

 have seen it at Chapel Hill, but failed to make notes. The above de- 

 scription is therefore compiled from others. Distinguished from 

 C. cornea by growth on pine, larger size and deeper color. 



For good illustrations in color see Gillet, PI. 85 (118), fig. 1; and 

 Massee : Brilisli Fungi and Licliens. PI. 27, fig. 8. 



2. Calocera cornea (Batsch.) Fr. 



Plate ()5 



Cespitose and (tt'trn tuscd at base, fonniim cluiiips or extended 

 rows from cnicks in tlir liark, about 5-1.") nnii. high, cylindrical, pointed 

 at the tips, simple or a few times hraiielied or pronged like an antler 



