Dacryomyces TREMELLINACE/E 455 



2031. D. deliqueseens Duby (from its appearance as if dissolving ; 



deliquesce ) to dissolve) a b c. 

 Somewhat round, rooted, convex, immarginate, at length twisted, 



hyaline-yellowish, varying to sulphur, rarely to orange. 

 Dead wood, cut wood, pine, holly, ash, oak. Dec.-Mar. Connate chains 



i& X | in. 



2032. D. stillatus Nees (from the drop-like habit ; stillo, to drop) 



a b c. 



Somewhat round, convex, at length plicate, yellow to orange or 

 scarlet. 



Rotten wood, fir-poles, cut wood, pine, fir. Jan. -Dec. Connate chains 

 if X \ in. Distinguished from 2031 by being usually smaller in size and 

 brighter and more persistent in colour. 



2033. D. ehrysoeomus Tul. (from the colour as of golden hair ; Gr. 



chrusos, gold, kome, hair) a b c. 



Spherical, orbicular, immarginate, soon collapsing, pezizoid, at 

 length flattened, even, bright golden-yellow, varying greenish- 

 or buff-yellow or orange. 



Rotten wood, fir ; rare. T V in. Small in size, usually in large numbers 

 scattered over wood or bark. 



2034. D. sebaeeus B. & Br. (from a fancied resemblance to droppings 

 of tallow, sebum) a b c. 



Somewhat round, cup-shaped, steel-grey. 



Branches, ash, willow, pea-sticks. Jan. -April. Single plants about J in. in 

 diam. Curved chains \\ in. 



2035. D. tortus Fr. (from the twisted habit ; torqueo, to twist) a b c. 

 Round, depressed, gyroso-tuberculate, substipitate, yellow to 



orange, sometimes vermilion. 



Dead wood, rotten powdery bark, oak. Oct.-June. Single plant J in. 

 Connate groups in. 



2036. D. vermiformis B. & Br. (from a fancied resemblance to 



certain small worms; verwis, a worm, forma, form) a c. 

 Minute, worm-shaped, grey. 

 Rotten wood. April-Sept. Single plants ^ in. Vermiform chains f in. 



\D. succinius Fr., appearing as minute dots on pine leaves has 

 been shown by Phillips and Plowright to be the conidial stage of 

 Hymenoscypha dectrina Phill. & Plowr.] 



CIVA. FEMSJONIA Fr. 



(From Femsjo, the name of a place.) 



Cup-shaped, distended with firm jelly, different on the two sides, 

 disc thick, heterogeneous, even, not glandular. Sporophores immersed, 



