furcate

Furcate, fur′kāt, adj. forked: branching like the prongs of a fork—also Fur′cated.—ns.

Furcā′tion, a forking or branching out; Fur′cifer, a genus of South American deer with furcate antlers.—adjs.

Fur′cular, furcate: shaped like a fork.

Fructification wholly plasmodiocarpous, snow-white, small, 2–6 mm., flat and thin; the outer wall double, membranous within, calcareous-crystalline without; columella none; capillitium simple of rather thick, vertical, brown threads, sparingly united laterally, and only occasionally furcate at the ends, especially above; spores minutely spinulescent, violaceous pale, 12–15 �.

Sporangia fasciculate, confluent on a persistent hypothallus, dark fuscous; peridia very fugacious; stipes united at the base, erect, furcate; spores large, brown, globose.