This is a common and beautiful little plant and easily distinguished both by its color and the size and form of its spores. If the collector will watch the dead herbaceous stems in damp places, he will not only find the two just described, but another, differing in color, size, and form of spores, called T. phacorrhiza, Fr. It has a brownish color and its spores are quite oblong, 8–9×4–5µ.
Lachnocladium. Lev.
Lachnocladium is from two Greek words meaning a fleece and a branch.
Pileus coriaceous, tough, repeatedly branched; the branches slender or filiform, tomentose. Hymenium amphigenous. Fungi slender and much branched, terrestrial, but sometimes growing on wood.
Lachnocladium semivestitum. B. & C.
Figure 400.—Lachnocladium semivestitum.
Pileus, much branched from a slender stem of variable length, expanded at the angles; the branches filiform, straight, somewhat fasciculate, smooth at the tips and paler in color.
This is quite a common specimen on our north hillsides. It is white and quite fragile. Found in damp places in August and September.