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partly dried plants are more orange than fresh ones. Lloyd has seen 

 our plants and thinks them Arrhytidia flava Berk., which in a letter he 

 says is "certainly co-generic and possibly the same as D. corticoides." 

 See also Myc. Notes 61, fig. 1780. 1919. Patoiiillard also thinks the 

 species should be referred to Arrhytidia as it is not truly gelatinous. 

 This is also indicated by the fact that dried plants do not revive at 

 all well when moistened again. For variety conUjena E. & E. (spelled 

 canigena in error) on pine cones see Jour. Myc. 2:87. 1886. From 

 the description it would seem than D. confluens Karst. might well be 

 the same thing (Sacc. Syl. 6:801). I have retained our plant for the 

 present in Dacrymyces to avoid a multiplicity of closely related 

 genera. 



3972. On a decorticated, rotten pine log by patli to Meeting of the Waters, 



January 17, 1920. Photo. 

 ■±079. On a decorticated pine log near Meeting of the Waters, February 4, 1920. 

 4179. On decorticated pine, February 26, 1920. Spores curved-elliptic, orange, 



four-celled, 5-7 x 11-14.8/x. 



4. Dacrymyces pedunculatus (B. & C.) 

 Exidia peduncidata B. & C. 



Plates 23, 41 and 62 



Plants single or crowded and compounded into groups or rows 

 up to 3 cm. long, simple individuals 2-3 mm. broad, 1.5-6 mm. thick, 

 turbinate, rooted by a stout base, the flat top margined. Texture 

 rather softly gelatinous, the stem tougher ; color of raisins or a little 

 paler; surface dull, minutely granular under a lens. 



Spores (of No. 4158) very large, elliptic, 9.3-11 x 21-27/x,, eight- 

 celled soon after falling, orange with a tint of salmon, soon sprouting 

 into small, elongated sporidia 1.7-2 x 3.5-4.5/x, which may be borne in 

 groups. Basidia very large, 108-130/i, long, 9-9. 5/x thick. 



The simple plants are shaped about like a short horseshoe nail and 

 approach in form D. involutvs; the flattish top may have a few 

 wrinkles or be quite smooth. The root is about 2-4 mm. long and ends 

 in a paler but not white mycelium which runs between the bark and 

 wood. Compound groups are rooted by an elongated flat plate which 

 gives rise to a crowded and convoluted group of heads much as in 

 D. aurantius. The species is very distinct not only in the very large 

 spores and basidia but also in the color, which is about that of Exidia 

 gelatinosa. It is odd that the spores are so differently colored from 



