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iiiecl it as Tremella enata B. & C, which is certainly different if Curtis' 

 No. 2456 can be said to represent it (see page 149) . Lloyd has seen our 

 plant and says : ' ' This is not sure to me for it is too permanent and 

 the spores of deliquescens are not orange but pale yellow." The species 

 is certainly different from D. minor (D. deliquescens) which grows on 

 decorticated w^ood, has much paler spores, and less orange and less 

 complex fruit bodies without distinct roots and which become very 

 inconspicuous when dry. It does not seem impossible that Dacrijopsis 

 Ulicis (Plour.) Sacc. may be our D. EllisH. The appearance is much 

 the same and the spores 4-celled, 5 x 15-18/a. (See note under Dac- 

 ryopsis ceracea). From D. dbietinus and D. aurantius, the 

 other conspicuous yellow or orange forms, it differs in growing on de- 

 ciduous wood and in the much shorter spores; from the latter it dif- 

 fers also in smaller size, but is like it in having a toughish, contracted, 

 white rooting base. 



3861. On branches of peach in a brush heap, December 9, 1919. Photo. Type. 

 3918. On decaying maple limb, December 21, 1919. Spores orange, smooth, 



sausage-shaped, some bent, 5.5-7.4 x ll-lifi. Spores sprouting on slide 



with from one to four sprouts, some three-septate. 

 3982. On decaying oak log, January 18, 1920. Spores bent-elliptic, 4.8-6 x 



10.5-12^, soon divided into four cells. 

 4003. On fallen oak limb, January 22, 1920. 



4035. On decaying maple limb with bark, January 25, 1920. Spores sausage- 



shaped, 4.8-6.7 X 12-15/i, 4-celled before sprouting. 



4036. On piece of decayed oak, January 25, 1920. Painting. 



4120. On bark of decaying birch limb, February 14, 1920. Spores 4-5 x 12-14.8jOi. 

 4170. On a corticated oak branch, February 23, 1920. 



6. Dacrymyces minor Pk. 



?D. deliquescens (Bull.) Fr. 

 ?D. lacrymalis Pers. 

 fD. hyalinus Quelet 



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Plant forming \evy small subspherical pustules about 1-2 mm. in 

 diameter, at times crowded into somewhat larger masses ; the surface 

 sparingly convoluted or even, a little viscid, not with an obvious root ; 

 color of most a dull, translucent, light amber or smok}^ amber and 

 usually with a slight olive tint especially when young, some plants 

 mixed with the others are a more conspicuous yellow-amber; texture 

 rather firmly gelatinous. 



