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soft, shapeless jelly: no taste or odor; tiesh concolorous. In drying 

 fading down to small amber or raisin-colored droplets. 



Spores (of No. 3832, spore print) deep orange, smooth, long-ellip- 

 tic, mostly bent, 5.5-7.4 x 18.5-25.9/a, not divided into cells when first 

 shed as a spore print, bnt later (in abont a week) divided into about 

 eight cells. Basidia forked into two long prongs. 



dommon on decorticated pine and cedar wood. This differs from 

 D. Ellisii in the mnch longer spores with more nnmerons cells. From 

 the good description by Persoon (Obs. Myc, p. 78. 1796) there can be 

 no donbt that we have his plant. It is more than likely that 

 D. stiUafus Nees is the same, bnt he did not say that it grew on 

 coniferous Avood. His figure is tolerably good for our plant (S3^st. d. 

 Pilze, p. 89 (18), PI. 22, 1858). Plants in the Curtis Herbarium under 

 the latter name from Alabama (Peters) and South Carolina (Ravenel 

 and Curtis) are like our plants, but specimens from Fries so labelled 

 in the Curtis Herbarium are doubtfully the same and seem rooted 

 (no spores to be found). Fries says that D. tortus grows on rotten 

 pine wood and refers to Bulliard's T. deUquescens as the same. 

 This has led to the impression that D. deUquescens grows on pine, 

 a supposition which to me is more than doubtful (see remarks under 

 D. minor). In the Curtis Herbarium are collections called D. tortus 

 on pine and Taxodium from Society Hill, S. C. (Curtis), also one 

 from Ravenel. These all seem to be the same as my plant. Karsten 

 gives the spores of D. stiUatus as 18-22 x8/x; Hennings (Engler and 

 Prantl, Pflanzenfamilien) as 18-28 x 8-12/^. Dacrymyces involutus, 

 also on pine, has shorter spores, is rooted, and is otherwise 

 quite different. Bref eld's conception of D. stillatus would exclude 

 our plant. He has it on corticated coniferous wood (often on P. syl- 

 vestris), bursting through the bark in lines, more reddish than in his 

 D. deUquescens, having a firm white root in the bark; spores large, 

 8-10-eelled, 12 x 25-30/a. His plant is evidently near our D. aurantius 

 Schw. if not the same. 



3832, On decorticated pine logs south of athletic field, December 7, 1919. Photo. 

 3956. On a pine rafter on a grape arbor, January 17, 1920. Spores 5.5-7 x 



15-20^, mostly divided into about eight cells. 

 3965. On pine, January 17, 1920. 

 •4074. On partly decorticated pine branch, February 4, 1920. Spores 5.5-7.4 x 



17.4-23;u. 

 4132. On decorticated cedar pole in Arboretum, February 21, 1920. 



Frequent on pine wood. Schweinitz. 



