1920] The Lower Basidiomycetes of North Carolina 175 



The plant is distinctly viscid when wet. The stalk sits flat on the 

 wood to which it is attached by a fiat, tongh, whitish plate which en- 

 ters the wood vertically. Quite young plants are filiform at first, 

 the head not apparent. 



This agrees perfectly with D. diibia as figured and described by 

 Lloyd (Myc. Notes 52:742, fig. 1114. 1917). Lloyd does not state on 

 what kind of wood his plant grows, but the European D. glossoides 

 is said to grow on beech. This is apparently the only serious discrep- 

 ancy in the habit or structure of that species and ours. Our plant is 

 much more gelatinous than Dacrijopsis nucla. 

 .3969. On a pine log, woods back of athletic field, January 17, 1920. Painting. 



DACRYOPSIS 



Plant stalked and rooted, the stalk short, smooth or granular, sub- 

 cartilaginous, capped above by a rounded or horizontally flattened, 

 smooth or onl}' slightly convoluted, viscid, toughly gelatinous head. 

 Often compounded by branching of the root or stalk. Spores elon- 

 gated, divided into two or four cells before sprouting. Basidia as in 

 Dacrymyces. We have but one species (but see note under Ditiola 

 radicata). For D. gyrocephala (B. & C.) Massee, from South Caro- 

 lina, and for other species of Daeryopsis see Jour. Myc. 6:181. 1890. 



Dacryopsis ceracea n. sp. 



Plates 50 and 65 



Plant 4-6 mm. high, mostly compound from a flattened, tough, 

 whitish rooting base, branched at once into a few stout stems which 

 expand and crimp above where they are capped and covered by a 

 glabrous, shining hymenium, which is deep wax-yellow and descends 

 irregularly from the tip only about 2 mm. at most. Stem finely granu- 

 lar, dull, distinctly demarked from the hymenium and a little paler. 

 Spread of the largest clump in our collection 1,3 x 1.9 cm. ; a few simple 

 plants stand alone with the unbranched stems capped with the smooth 

 hymenium. Tips thick, bluiitl}' rounded, about 1.5 mm. tliit-k. Tex- 

 ture gelatinous, elastic, subtranslucent, the rooting base tougher. 

 The base penetrates cracks in the bark and flattens out on the wood 

 below. TJie hymenium is scarcely more convoluted than is neces- 

 sary to follow the wavy apex it is situated on. In ii few of the broader 

 tips the hymenium is depressed and a little convoluted in the center. 

 The plant has the habit of Spdrassis Ilcrhstii on a minute scale. 



