No. 3.] HYMENIALES OF CONNECTICUT. 75 



HYPOCHNACEiE. 



The plants of this family are mold-like or spider-web- 

 like in substance, and lack the close, membranaceous charac- 

 ter of other families. The tufts of basidia are placed closely 

 side by side over the surface of the mycelial tissue. 



No plants belonging to this family have been reported. 



