APYRENIUM CALOCERA. 71 



Apyrenium armeniacum, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., no. 1141, 

 pi. ii., f. 2 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 352. 



On oak chips, decaying fungi, &c. Smaller than A. ligna- 

 tite and more irregularly lobed. 



The conidial stage of Hypocrea gelatinosa. 



CALOCEKA. Fr. (fig. 11, p. 56.) 



Gelatinoso-cartilaginous, horny when dry, vertical, sub- 

 cylindrical, simple or branched, viscid, without a distinct 

 stem. Hymenium covering every part of the hymenophore ; 

 basidia terete, apex furcate or bilobed, each lobe bearing a 

 single 1-spored sterigma. Spores oblong, curved, septate on 

 germination and producing heads of ellipsoid sporidiola. 



Calocera, Fries, Syst. Myc. i. p. 485 ; Sacc., Syll. vi. 

 p. 732. 



In habit resembling tbe genus Clavaria, but distinguished 

 by being subgelatinous and viscid when moist, rigid and 

 horny when dry, and more especially by the furcate basidia. 



* Branched. 



Calocera viscosa. Fries, (fig. 11, p. 56.) 

 Branched, viscid and tough when moist, rooting, smooth, 



orange- yellow; branches straight, repeatedly forked; spores 



cylindric-oblong, apiculate, slightly curved, 9-10 x 4-5 p.. 

 Calocera viscosa, Fries, S. M. i. p. 486; Cke., Hdbk., 



p. 339. 



On pine stumps, &c. Generally tufted, 1-2 in. high, root 



pale, often very long and penetrating the wood. 



* Uribranched, caespitose. 



Calocera tuberosa. Fries. 



Caespitose, to\igh, simple, linear, sub-acute, yellowish ; 

 two or three springing from a thick, strigose, subglobose 

 rooting tuberous base. 



Calocera tuberosa, Fries, S. M. i. p. 486; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 339. 



On trunks. Clubs up to 2 in. high, slender. 



