Dacrymyccs. ] FUNGI. 219 



1. N. encephala, Willd. (common Ncematelia) ; nearly sessile 

 pulvinate plicato-rugose pallid flesh-colour, at lengtli brownish. 

 Fr. Syst. ISLjc. v. 2. p. 2-27. Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 456 — T, 

 encephala, Willd. in Bot. Mag, 1. t. 4./. 14. {fide Fr.). Alb.^- 

 Sc/iw. Consp. p. 301. 



On pine wood. Apj)in, Cupt. Carmichael.—" Solitary or clustered 

 mere or less pulvinate, 4 — G lines broad and thick, firm. When fresh 

 of a dead flesh colour, when dry reddish-brown : nucleus large, hard, 

 white, base stem-like." Fr. I. c. The specimens referred to the present 

 species were undetermined, and I am not therefore able to assert posi- 

 tively that it is what is intended by authors: the nucleus is more than 

 twice as large as in N. nvcleata, Schwetn. Besides this authority for 

 its admission into the British Flora, there is that of the editor of the 

 Fun{^i in* Loudon's Hortus Britunnicus. 



40. Dacrymyces. Necs. Dacryrayces. 

 Receptacle gelatinous, homogeneous, filled within with sub- 

 erect ^occ/, and inspersed sporidia. Named from du-/.pv, a tearj 

 and /JLVAT)',, afimgics, 



1. Z). morifdrmis, Smith, {Midherry Dacrymyccs) ; clustered 

 into a globular form, sinuated black opaque fleshy, within deep 

 purple. Fr. St/st. jSIyc. v. 2. p. 229. — 7V. moriformis, Eng. 

 Bot. t. 2446. iVilh. v. 4. ;;. G7. Part. v. 2. n. 888. 



On exposed wrought wood and sticks. Summer and early autumn. 

 Between Hoodly gate and Measham, Surrey, Mr. C. E. Sutcerby. 

 Gorcot llall, Purton. — '* Sessile, in roundish or oblong tumid sinuous 

 masses of various size, not unlike mulberries in a[)pearance, except 

 being coal-black. Internally of a rich deep purple. Substance fleshy, 

 attached by strong central roots. When dried between paper, a violet 

 stain is conmiunicated to whatever the plant touches." Sm. I. c. Placed 

 by Fries in the genus Dacri/nujccs and conse([uently retained in that 

 genus here; but in the absence of all information as to its structure, 

 it ap[)ears to me to be much more probably a true TrcnicUa. 



2. D. violdceus, Relh. (violet Dacrymyccs) ; small compact 

 somewhat compressed gyrose violet. Fr. Syst. Myc. v. 2. p.. 

 259. — I/elv. violacea, Rtlh. ed. 3. p. 552. — Tr. violacca, Wit/t. 

 T. 4. p. 72. Pers. Syn. p. 623. 



• I t:\K.- tilt' jiivscut opp.irtuiiity of statin?; that it is from no iiisunicieiit 

 api)r«'ii,ition u\ the valiiiMif thu list of Fniini roiitaiiu-d in Lmitlon's ext^ellent 

 Ilort'ia Jlritauhirns. tliat I have not unifmrnly fiitcnd in tlnir jdaccs siarics 

 wliich rtst uuon its aiilhority ulone. JJut as lh«M»' is no ostensilth' imtxiu 

 an»jn«MaliIr fur its inrlivi«lual forrt-ctness, though its t;«'n«'ral rturt'ctnoss is 

 hcyond nil donlit, and as 1 am nwan? that in the list thtre arc sevnal sjunries 

 which \\. re entncd l.y l)v. (ireville, thron^^h \> liose hands it passed, on uiJT 

 own anthoiiiy, some of whi.h a fuller knowlediro of the snl«je.t has c.nvinn'd 

 inr were wroii;;ly determined, and the same thini; may have taken jdace in 

 <ither rases, 1 have thought it on the whole not de>iriihl»« to insert species nii- 

 sup|K>rte<i hv any express anthority. 'Mie number, however, omitted is very 

 small. \\ h'ere Jjeiora apjn ar, of" which 1 have either gathered no »i>eries 

 myself", or possess no specimens collected l»y <»thers, 1 have tleviated Irom my 

 rnlp. Ill its «)wn. province, .Mr. London's list must always he v.-\ltinble, m 

 giving a fair, though nccfssnrily imperfect, sketch, of British Mycologjr. 



