40 MM. L. R. AND C. TULASNE ON THE TREMELLINEOUS FUNGI 
those singular specimens might belong to a different type, he 
would give up his conjecture on seeing the conidiophorous nature 
and the typical or sporophorous structure sometimes united in the 
same subject (see the Ann. des Sc. Nat. 3rd ser. t. xix. pp. 216- 
219, pl. xiii.). 
If we are not mistaken, we must consider very analogous 
to conidiophorous Dacryomyces a Tremellineous production that 
grows on the bark of the dead branches of Salix caprea. It 
appears also under the shape of little pulvinules, globose or 
irregular, scarcely as large as the seeds of the sweet pea, and of 
a red carmine colour. The whole mass of these pulpous cor- 
puselés is composed of ovoid, smooth, transparent cells soldered 
to each other by the ends, forming ramified monilia, and recalling 
to memory the Hormiscia and other well-known ferments. Such 
cells or conidia separate from one another very easily. 
We have only once found this fungus, in the damp woods of 
Chaville, near Versailles, in January 1865 ; we will here give a 
short technical description of it. 
DACRYOMYCES PURPUREUS f, pulvinulis exiguis, purpureis, erumpen- 
tibus, paucis gregariis, imo solitariis, primum compressis et acutis seu 
eristatis, postea autem deformibus et jove pluvio collabentibus, na- 
tura pulposis totisque fere e conidii seu cellulis ovatis, levibus, 
simplicibus ac primum catenatis, catenis vero seu monilibus abunde 
ramosis. 
Nascitur, hiberno tempore, ex emortuo fissoque cortice Salicis ca- 
pree et nobis semel hactenus obvius estin sylva umbrosa Cadville 
ad Versalias, anno S. 1865, mense Januario imeunte. 
Nuperrimo tempore eundem fungillum, ni nos omnia fallunt, 
iterum reperimus, nec quidem infrequentem, in asseribus pineis 
jamdiu sub dio degentibus, apud Venetos Armorice australis, 
Novembri mense (1870). 
VIII. Besides the characters before mentioned, the spores of 
the Tremellineous fungi have the power of sending forth, in ger- 
mination, either simple threads or secondary spores (sporidia). 
These are sometimes solitary, and resemble the mother spores 
except in being slightly smaller ; sometimes they are much smaller, 
of a peculiar shape, and very numerous, like those which occur 
in various Discomycetes, such as Pezize, Bulgarie, Dothidee, &c. 
(See our Selecta Fung. Carpol. t. 2 & 3.) 
IX. The Tremellineous fungi being so abundantly provided with 
reproductive bodies of various kinds (being in fact in this respect 
