CLAVARIEAE. i .'J 



FAM. II. 



CLAVARIEAE. 



rieshj', not coriaceous; erect, simple and clut-sliaped or 

 variously branched ; hymenium covering the whole of the 

 sporophore. 



Distinguished from the Thelephoreae, as Lachnocladium 

 (not British), that grow erect, and are hraiiched and Clavaria- 

 like by being soft and fleshy and not subcoriaceous, and als') 

 in having the hymenium completely surrounding the hymeno- 

 phore, and not confined to one side, as in Lachnocladium. 



KEY TO TEE GENERA. 

 * Very much hranched, branches compressed, plate-like, crisped. 

 Sparassis. 



*• Club-shaped and simple or variously hranched, branches 

 terete. 



"f Stem distinct from hymenophore. 

 TyphiUa. 



f\ Stem not distinct from hymenophore. 



Clavaria. — Fleshy, simple or branched, branches terete. 



Pistillaria. — Minute, club-shaped, simple, rigid when 

 dry. 



Pterula. — Small, branches very numerous and very slen- 

 der, forming a brush-like tuft. 



