KEY TO TULASNELLALES, CALOCERALES 



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TULASNELLACEAE. 



Tulasnella. 



CALOCERACEAE. 



TULASNELLALES. 



Same characters as the order 



TULASNELLACEAE. 



Receptacle effused, fleshy membranaceous, or 

 gelatinous, then cartilaginous. Hymenium 

 smooth, exposed from the first. Spores white, 

 producing sporidiola on germination; sterig- 

 mata very thick and stout. Growing on dead 

 wood, and fallen pine needles 



CALOCEBALES. 



Same characters as the order 



CALOCERACEAE. 



Receptacle more or less tubercular, or cup->> 

 shaped, entirely gelatinous. Hymenium I ^ 

 smooth, or plicate. Spores white, simple,) a M ?/ 068 - 

 septate, or muriform. Growing on dead wood] 

 Receptacle cup-shaped, or lobed, stipitate, or\ 

 substipitate, gelatinous, or cartilaginous ; stem | 

 firm, indurated. Hymenium smooth. Spores Y Ditiola. 

 white, elliptic-oblong, becoming 1-3-septate. 

 Growing on dead wood / 



Receptacle erumpent, convex, then plane, \ 

 sessile, gelatinous, or floccose. Hymenium 

 smooth, becoming plicate. Spores yellowish, Y Femsjonia. 

 oblong, becoming 8-10- , or more, septate. 

 Growing on dead, rarely living, wood / 



Receptacle upright, cylindrical, apex globose,^ 

 or elongate, stipitate, gelatinous, firm. Hy- 

 menium smooth, or rugosely plicate, con- [- Dacryomitra. 

 fined to the upper portion of the receptacle. 

 Spores white. Growing on dead wood 

 Receptacle upright, cylindrical, simple, on 

 branched, gelatinous-coriaceous, cartilaginous! ^ , 

 when dry. Hymenium smooth, amphigenous. j 

 Spores white. Growing on wood / 



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