454 



TREMELLINACEiE 



Dacryomyces 



Subfamily III. DACRYOMYCETOIDE^E 



Basidia cylindrical or clavate, divided at the apex into two long 

 sterigmata, not septate, except in Femsjonia, where the basidia and 

 sterigmata become septate with age. Species 2030 — 2041 



CIV. DACRYOMYCES Nees. 

 (From the tear-like habit ; Gr. daknt, a tear, vmkes, a fungus.) 



Small, pulvinate, gelatinous, homogeneous, somewhat plicato- 

 gyrose, everywhere covered with the hymenium. Basidia terminating 

 normal hyphae, tereti-clavate, bifurcate at the apex when mature. 



Fig. 119. — A, Dacryomyces deltqitescens Duby . One-half natural 

 size, b, basidium and spores ; c, spore germinating and producing 

 sporidiola. X 500. 



Spores cylindric-oblong, curved, at maturity or during germination 

 variously septate or muriform. In the conidia-bearing sporophores 

 the conidia, which more or less resemble the spores in size and 

 form, are produced in chains. (Fig. 119.) 



The species grow on dead wood. Species 2030 — 2036 



Rose-coloured. 2030 



Orange, yellow or yellowish. 2031 — 2033 



Pallid or fuscous. 2034 



2030. D. maerosporus B. & Br. (from the long spores ; Gr. makros y 

 long) a b c. 

 Gelatinous, tuberculate, minutely gyroso-granular. 

 Branches, in cracks, on remains of Sfhceria stigma. Dec. -Apr. Connate 

 chains 2 x J in. 



