e of the year after warm rains or in damp
places, on well decayed wood. The specimens in Figure 398 were
photographed by Prof. G. D. Smith, Akron, Ohio.

_Calocera. Fr._

This plant is gelatinous, somewhat cartilaginous when moist, horny when
dry, vertical, simple or branched, caespitose or solitary.

The hymenium is universal; the basidia round and two-lobed, each lobe
bearing a single one-spored sterigma. The spores are inclined to be
oblong and curved.

This genus resembles Clavaria, but is identified by being somewhat
gelatinous and viscid when moist and rather horn-like when dry, but
especially by its two-lobed basidia.

_Calocera cornea. Fr._

[Illustration: _Photo by C. G. Lloyd._

Figure 399.--Calocera cornea.]

This is unbranched, caespitose, rooting, even, viscid, orange-yellow or
pale yellow; clubs short, subulate, connate at the base. The spores are
round and oblong, 7-8x5u.

Found upon stumps and logs, especially upon oak where the timber is
cracked, the plants springing from the cracks. When dry they are quite
stiff and rigid.

_Calocera stricta. Fr._

These plants are unbranched, solitary, about one inch high, elongated,
base somewhat blunt, even when dry, yellow.

Its habitat is very similar to C. cornea but more scattered. C. striata,
Fr., is very similar to C. cornea, but is distinguished by its being
solitary, and striate or rugose when dry.

_Typhula. Fr._

Epiphytal. Stem filiform, flaccid; clubs cylindrical, perfectly distinct
from hymenium, sometimes springing from a sclerotium; hymenium thin and
waxy.

This is distinguished from Clavaria and Pistillaria by having its stem
distinct from the hymenium. It is a small plant resembling, in
miniature, Typha, hence its generic name.

_Typhula erythropus. Fr._

Simple; club cylindrical, slender, smooth, white; stem nearly straight,
dark red, inclining to be black, springing usually from a blackish and
somewhat wrinkled sclerotium. The spores are oblong, 5-6x2-2.5u.

This plant has a wide distribution, and is found in damp places upon the
stems of herbaceous plants.

_Typhula incarnata. Fr._

Simple; club cylindrical, elongated, smooth; whitish, more or less
tinged with pink above; one to two-inches high, base minutely strigose,
springing from a compressed brownish sclerotium. The spores are nearly
round, 5x4u.

This is a common and beautiful little plant and easily distinguished
both by its color and the size and