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Keeeptaoles stipitate or sessile, scattered or crowded, 
membranaceous or waxy. Jlymenium smooth or veined. 
Spores white 
Eeceptacles sessile, seated on a superficial felt-like, then 
floccose and fugacious mycelium, gregarious or fascicu- 
late. Hymenium smooth. Spores white 
Eeceptacles sessile, more or loss crowded, distinct, seated 
on or immersed in an effused membranaceous or floccose 
stroma. Spores white 
I.ike Cyphella but spores coloured, smooth or echinulate. . 
CLAVAEIACEAE. 
Eeceptacle erect, simple or branched, cylindrical, smooth or 
longitudinally striate, fleshy or subcoriaceous, generally 
putrescent. Spores white or ochracoous, smooth or rough. 
Growing on the ground or on wood 
Eeceptacle erect, simple, very rarely branched, cylindrically- 
clavate, witli a long, thin stem, often springing from a 
sclerotium, fleshy, waxy or tough. Spores white. Grow- 
ing on fallen twigs and dead leaves 
Eeceptacle erect, simple, very rarely forked, club-shaped, 
with a short, tliick, glabrous or villose stem, fleshy or 
waxy. Spores white. Growing on herbaceous plants . . 
Receptacle filiform, simple or branched, firm, tough. 
Spores white. Growing on the ground or on wood . . . . 
Cyphella. 
Solenia. 
Porothelium. 
Phaeocyphella. 
Clavaria. 
Typhula. 
Pistillaria. 
Pterula. 
