XYLARIACEAE

Xylaria polymorpha (Pers.) Grev. dead man's fingers or black-finger mushroom [US; Illinois; Jackson County; Carbondale, T9S, R1W, S28; 450 feet] [gregarious to cespitose; growing on shallow horizontal roots of hardwood stump, southwest corner of Lindegren Hall, Southern Illinois University; August 8, 2001; Collected & identified by Chuck Walker; #IL239]