48 



rUNGUS-FLOKA. 



iimbilicate, sessile, j)roduced laterally, one on eacli of the cells 

 of a basidium, 



Pilacre, Fries, Syst, Orb. Veg. 1, p. 3G4 ; Brefeld, Unter- 

 sucli. vii. Heft., p. 27. 



FIGURES ILLUSTRATING THE PILACREAE, ALSO THE 

 TREMELLINEAE IN PART. 



Fig. 1, Pilacre Petersii, natural size ; — Fig. 2, section of same, mag. ; — 

 Fig. 8, cluster of transversely septate basidia of same, bearing lateral 

 spores ; highly|mag. ; — Fig. 4, Tremellodon gelatinosum, a small specimen ; 

 nat. size ; — Fig. 5, basidium of same, -with the four long, stout sterigmata 

 bearing spores ; highly mag. 



Pilacre faginea. B. & Br. 



Gregarious, Tip to } in. high, head about 1^ lines across, 

 whitish with a brown tinge ; stem blackish ; threads of gleba 

 tortuous, spores subglobose, yellow-brown, 5 yut. 



Pilacre faginea, B. and Br,, Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 380, t. xi. 

 fig. 5 ; Sacc. Syll. 4, n. 2748. 



On rotten beech-wood. 



Pilacre Petersii. B. & G. (figs. 1, 2, 3, p. 48.) 

 Stem 2-3 lines high, whitish, head 2-3 lines across ; spores 

 circular and sub-umbilicato, brown, 5 fx diameter. 



