CHAPTER XXXI 



DACRYOMYCETALES 



This order is characterized by narrow basidia, apically forked and 

 bearing two basidiospores on long, gradually tapering sterigmata. They 

 ascend from simple forms in which the hymenia are resupinate to those 



Fig. 354. — Types of fructifications. 1. Ceracea Lagerheimii. 2. Dacryomyces delique- 

 scens. 3. Guepinia ferns joeniana. 4. Calocera cornea. 5. Dacryomitraglossoid.es. 6. Calo- 

 cera viscosa. (All approximately natural size; after Brefeld and Patouillard.) 



with stipitate fructifications and, in this respect, form a series parallel 

 to the Cantharellales. Their probable relationships are shown in the 

 diagram on page 530 in connection with the Cantharellales. Only a 

 single small family is known. 



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