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the mycelium may break up into oidiospores, if the wet period is 
prolonged. In consisting of slimy gelatinous masses the “weeping 
fungi” approach the Tremellacea but are distinguished from them 
in the basidium being undivided in the former and divided in the 
latter. 
Order 2.- Exobasidiales. — This group is found growing parasitic- 
ally on shrubs especially those of the heath family. The mycelium 
Pig. 98. — Coral-like fruit-bodies of Clavaria flava. ( Harshberger , from Photo 
by W. II. Walmsley.) 
lives in the tissues of the stems, leaves, sepals and petals and pro- 
duces spongy ileshy yellowish or brownish galls which are popularly 
called “Azalea apples.” The galls are edible. They are covered 
with a hymenium. 
Order 3. Thelephorales, forms appearing on tree trunks as 
leathery incrustations or as bracts on the ground, old logs, etc. 
Order 4. — Clavariales, the coral or fairy club fungi. Fleshy coral 
or club-shaped forms, all of which are saprophytes found in woods 
