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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Calocera. Fr. 



This plant is gelatinous, somewhat cartilaginous when moist, horny when 

 dry, vertical, simple or branched, csespitose or solitary. 



The hymenium is universal ; the basidia round and two-lobecl, each lobe 

 bearing a single one-spored sterigma. The spores are inclined to be oblong and 

 curved. 



This genus resembles Clavaria, but is identified by being somewhat gelatinous 

 and viscid when moist and rather horn-like when dry, but especially by its two- 

 lobed basidia. 



Calocera cornea. Fr. 





Figure 399. Calocera cornea. 



Photo by C. G. Lloyd. 



This is unbranched, caespitose, rooting, even, viscid, orange-yellow or pale 

 yellow ; clubs short, subulate, connate at the base. The spores are round and 

 oblong, 7-8x5/.*. 



Found upon stumps and logs, especially upon oak where the timber is cracked, 

 the plants springing from the cracks. When dry they are quite stiff and rigid. 



Calocera stricta. Fr. 



These plants are unbranched, solitary, about one inch high, elongated, base 

 somewhat blunt, even when dry, yellow. 



Its habitat is very similar to C. cornea but more scattered. C. striata, Fr., 

 is very similar to C. cornea, but is distinguished by its being solitary, and striate 

 or rugose when dry. 



Typhula. Fr. 



Epiphytal. Stem filiform, flaccid ; clubs cylindrical, perfectly distinct from 

 hymenium, sometimes springing from a sclerotium ; hymenium thin and waxy. 



