68 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Phillips to be the conidial stage of Peziza eleetrica, Phil, and 

 Plow. inGrevillea, June, 1880. 



Dacryomyces sebaceus. B. & Br. 



Gelatinous but firm, cup-shaped, whitish, spores cylin- 

 drical, slightly curved, multi-septate, 12-13 X 7-8 /a. 



Dacryomyces sebaceus, B. and Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., no. 1305 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk.. p. 351. 



On branches. Conspicuous in wet weather, 2-4 lines 

 broad. 



Dacryomyces torta. Massee. 



Gelatinous, rounded, depressed, gyroso-tuberculate, yellow 

 or orange; spores cylindrical, curved, 3-septate, 12 x 4-5 [x. 



Dacryomyces torta, Mass. 



TremeUa torta. Berk., Outl., p. 288. 



On decorticated oak branches. Distinguished from Da- 

 cryomyces deliquescens by the smaller spores. From 3-4 lines 

 across. 



Dacryomyces {?) vermicularis. B. & Br. 



Minute, grey, worm-shaped, sporophores globose, 12*5 yu, ; 

 spores globose, pallid rufous, 5 /x. diameter. 



Dacryomyces (?) vermicularis, B. and Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., 

 no. 1700. 



On rotten wood. No specimen exists in Berkeley's her- 

 barium, hence it remains doubtful as to the correct posi- 

 tion of the present species, which does not appear from the 

 brief description to agree with Dacryomyces as at present 

 understood. 



DACRYOPSIS. Massee. (figs. 5, 6, p. 5(5.) 



Small, subgelatiuous, stipitate, fertile portion capitate, at 

 first covered with conidiophores ; conidia terminal at apex of 

 conidiophores or short lateral brauchlets ; conidia minute, 

 hyaline, continuous, forming a dense stratum; basidia cylin- 

 drical, bifurcate, aseptate, springing from the interlaced 

 hyphao at the apex of tlie stem, either contemporaneous with 

 or later than the conidia. Spores elongated, colourless, con- 

 tinuous, or septate. 



