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also of the opinion that it liTOws on both kinds of wood, and notes its 

 occurrence on Quercus, Carpinus, and Pinus sylvestris (Ann. Myc. 

 1:115. 1903.) Brefeld (I.e. p. 141) describes D. deliquescens care- 

 fully, and there are no serious discrepancies between his plants and 

 our D. minor. He gives the spores as faintly yellow, 5 x 15 ; the plants 

 growing on deciduous wood and seated directly on the wood, not on 

 bark. Bresadola gives the spores of D. deliquescens as 12-15 x 5-6/^. 

 It seems even less doubtful that Tremella lacrymalis Pers. is 

 not ditiferent from D. minor. Persoon's figure (Icon. Fung. PI. 10, 

 fig. 3, 1803) looks about right, the plants growing on deciduous wood, 

 the largest one about 4 mm. broad. He describes it as rounded to 

 somewhat irregular, pezizoid, small, pellucid, yellow. Occasional on 

 putrescent wood. He refers to Bulliard's Tremella deliquescens as 

 related (Syn. Fung. p. 628. 1801). Brefeld describes a new species 

 D. lutescens verj- near D. deliquescens but dififering in the absence of 

 fruiting bodies which bear gemmae, in the clear orange color, and 

 the larger spores, 10 x 28/x. Dacrymyces cerehriformis Bref . is some- 

 what similar to the two preceding, but is smaller, prefers birch, and 

 has 4-celled spores more curved than the other two, 8 x 25-28/x. There 

 are still two other little species described by Brefeld, one D. longi- 

 sporus, scarcely larger than a pin head, found on old fences ; it is pale, 

 yellow, spores 12- to 15-celled, 15 x 35-40/x ; the other, D. ovisporus, 

 a remarkable form with oval spores, 15 x 20-25/a, which are divided 

 into many cells by walls in all directions. Otherwise the species, he 

 says, cannot be distinguished from the preceding and occurs with it. 



3926. On an old oak chip, December 22, 1919. 



3941. On twig of deciduous tree, December 22, 1919. 



3945. On Ligustrum chinense in Arboretum, January 16, 1920. Many of the 



young cushions have an olive tint added to the amber. Spores about 



4.8 X 12.5, not divided into cells when first shed. 

 4012. On a fallen branch of osage orange (Madura), January 23, 1920. Spores 



creamy yellow, curved, 4-5 x 10-13, mostly divided into four cells which 



soon sprout, forming either small sporidia or mycelial threads. 

 4105. On a decorticated branch of osage orange, February 13, 1920. Spores 



3.7-5 X 10-12.5. Photo. 



4165. On corticated dog^vood branch, February 23, 1920. Growing mostly in 



lines across the twigs through circumcissile cracks in the bark. Washed 

 out to almost hyaline. Spores 6-7.4 x 13-15.5, 4-eelled. 



4166. On decorticated oak branches, February 23, 1920. 



4181. On decorticated sycamore wood, February 26, 1920. Spores 3.7-5 x 9.3-11.2, 



4-celled. 

 4200. On crepe myrtle, March 5, 1920. 



