1920] The Lower Basidiomycetes of North Carolina 167 



the plant, but several good prints make the color certain. It will be 

 remembered that in Tremella colorata Peck states that the spores are of 

 the same raisin color as the plant. There is fortunately in existence 

 in the Curtis Herbarium a good collection of Exidia pedunculata 

 B. & C. (Society Hill, S. C, No. 3750), which I find on examination 

 is certainly this. They are on pine with same shape and color, thick 

 spores unmistakablj' the same but averaging somewhat shorter than in 

 our specimens. They are 8-celled, 7-10 x 16-22/x,. 



4158. On a fallen, corticated branch of Pinus Taeda, February 21, 1920. 

 4185. On a corticated pine branch, StroAvd's lowgrounds, February 25, 1920. 

 Photo. Spores 9.7-14x20.5-27^. 



5. Dacrymyces Ellisii n. sp. 



Plates 23, 50 and 63 



Plants bursting through the bark and forming small, flattish, 

 smooth or crumpled pustules about 2-6 mm. wide which are sometimes 

 crowded into somewhat larger masses up to 15 mm. wide ; the pustules 

 lie flat on the substratum but are the expanded tops of tough, whitish 

 stalks which are hidden by the bark into the cracks of which they de- 

 scend for several mm. and finally fade into the white mycelium ; sur- 

 face damp, somewhat viscid, firmly gelatinous, orange or wine-color, 

 fading to pale or sordid yellowish. 



Spores (of No. 3861) deep orange, smooth, sausage-shaped, bent, 

 a part of them divided into about four cells when shed, 5-7 x 10.5-13. 3/x. 



The species is somewhat scarce in American herbaria and seems 

 to have no settled name. It occurs in the Curtis Herl)arium (IMassa- 

 chusetts, Sprague, bark of oak) under the name D. deliquescens, but it 

 cannot be that species. Others so named in the same herbarium are 

 different, one from IMassachusetts seeming to be D. ahietinus. 1 have 

 tried to find out wiiat D. sijrinfjae really is but have not succeeded. 

 The Flora Danica figure (PI. 1857, fig. 3) does not help much. 

 DacrymyccH s)jriu(jicola is different (see p. 171), Plants at the New 

 York Botanical Garden on magnolia labelled D. diplocarpus E. & E., 

 bill jippiin'iitly never published, have spores 3-septate, 4-5xll-13/x 

 and seem the same as ours. They were sent by Ellis to Patouillard 

 who said he did not know it. A similar collection by Ellis on magnolia 

 bark is labelled I>. si/riiiydc. Another collection on oak of the same 

 tiling from West \'ii-ginia (Xiittall) was sent to Massee who detenu- 



