THE CORAL FUNGI 



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This is distinguished from Clavaria and Pistillaria by having its stem distinct 

 from the hymenium. It is a small plant resembling, in minature, Typha, hence 

 its generic name. 



Typhula crythropus. Fr. 



Simple ; club cylindrical, slender, smooth, white ; stem nearly straight, dark 

 red, inclining to be black, springing usually from a blackish and somewhat wrinkled 

 sclerotium. The spores are oblong, 5-6x2-2.5/11. 



This plant has a wide distribution, and is found in damp places upon the 

 stems of herbaceous plants. 



Typhula incarnata. Fr. 



Simple ; club cylindrical, elongated, smooth ; whitish, more or less tinged with 

 pink above ; one to two inches high, base minutely strigose, springing from a 

 compressed brownish sclerotium. The spores are nearly round, 5x4^. 



This is a common and beautiful little plant and easily distinguished both by 

 its color and the size and form of its spores. If the collector will watch the dead 

 herbaceous stems in damp places, he will not only find the two just described, 

 but another, differing in color, size, and form of spores, called T. phacorrhiza, Fr. 

 It has a brownish color and its spores are quite oblong, 8-9x4-5^. 



Lachnocladium. Lev. 



Lachnocladium is 

 from two Greek 

 words meaning a 

 fleece and a branch. 



Pileus coriaceous, 

 tough, repeatedly 

 branched ; the 

 branches slender or 

 filiform, tomentose. 

 Hymenium amphi- 

 genous. Fungi slen- 

 der and much 

 branched, terrestrial, 

 but sometimes grow- 

 ing on wood. 



Figure 400. Lachnocladium semivestitum. 



