DACRYMYCES. 



3*7 



Genus LXIL— Guepinia (after Guepin). Fr. Elench. ii. p 



Gelatinous inclining to cartilaginous, free, different on the two 

 sides, variable in form, substipitate ; 



hymenium confined to one side; (r^"""^ 



sporophores linear, long-forked, 2- \ \ 



spored ; spores curved. Fr. Hym. \ \ 

 Eur. p. 697. 



1. G. peziza Tul. — Yellow, cup- 

 shaped, somewhat sessile, smooth 

 071 both sides, ad n ate behind ; stem 

 slender. 



Very remarkable in having the hymenium 

 on the upper side. 



On wood. Shere. 



Name — From its being like Peziza. Tul. 

 A?in. Sc. Nat. 1853, p. 224. Fr. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 697. Grevitlea, vol. vi. p. 71. PI. 

 97./. 19, 20. 



30. Guep 



ima. 





<&$*■" 



C. Guepinia helvelloides. 

 half natural size. 



One- 



Genus LXIII. — Dacrymyces (5a/cpu, a tear; /xvkvs, a fungus). Dacrymyces. 



Nees Syst. p. 89. 



Gelatinous, homogeneous, pervaded internally with septate 

 fibres; conidia linked together like 

 a necklace ; sporophores clavate at ^ 

 the end of the filaments, bifurcate n 

 when mature ; spores septate. Tul. 

 A?z?i. Sc. Nat 1853, /. 11. f. 19. /. 

 12. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 697. 



* Red. 



** Yellowish. 



*** Pallid or fuscous. 



* Red. 



1. D. macrosporus B. & Br. — 



Rose-colour, gelatinous, tubcrculated. 



Forming irregular gyrate and tubcrculated 

 masses of a rosy colour, about 6 mm. 



{Vi, in.) long-, parasitic on old remains of CI. Dacrymyces sebaceus. Natural 

 Sphceria stigma. It preserves its rosy tint size. Section five hundred times 

 when dry. natural size. 



