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becoming miiriform. Chains of conidia resembling the" basidio- 

 spores in form often occur in immense numbers in the substance 

 of the fungus. 



Dacryomyces ddiquescens, Duby, Bofc. Gall., p. 729 ; Sacc, Syll. 

 vi, no. 8472 ; Cooke, Austr. Fung., p. 209. 



Gelatinous, roundish or irregular and variously gyrose, yellow, 

 almost translucent and subdeliquescent, basal portion root-hke, 

 emerging from the matrix, patches 1-4 mm. broad ; spores 

 hyaline, cylindrical, obtuse, slightly curved, 3-septate, 15-17 

 X 6-7 fj-. 



On decaying wood. Northern Island, New Zealand. Tas- 

 mania, Europe, Siberia, United States. 



Forming little gelatinous pale-yellow pustules on dead wood, 

 often very abundant in rainy weather. 



65. Guepinia, Fries. 



Cartilaginous or sub gelatinous, erect, substipitate, spathulate or 

 expanded, one surface fertile, the other sterile and minutely 

 velvety. 



Guepinia, Fries, Elench., ii, p. 30. 



Small, thin, and flexible ; distinguished from others with 

 similar basidia by the differentiation into a sterile and fertile 

 surface respectively ; spores curved. Chains of conidia some- 

 times produced on the sterile side of the pileus. 



Guepinia spathularia, Fries, Epicr., ii, p. 32 ; Fl. N.Z., ii, p. 185 ; 



Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, p. 614; Cooke, Austr. Fung., p. 210; 



Sacc, Syll. vi, no. 8520. 



Csespitose ; pileus erect, spathidate or irregularly flattened, 

 thin, soft and tough, sterile side pale, pubescent, as is also the 

 short rooting stem ; hymenium orange, wrinkled ; up to 5 cm. 

 high, usually smaller ; spores elliptical, becoming septate, 

 10 X 6 |U. 



On dead wood. Northern Island, New Zealand. Victoria. 

 Queensland, New South Wales, Ceylon, Java, India, United 

 States, Cuba, Brazil. 



Very tough when growing, often springing out of cracks 

 in wood, extending for some inches and growing more or less 

 into each other, hence becoming very irregular in form. General 

 form more or less battledore or fan shaped, with a stem 1-2 cm. 

 long, especially when springing from cracks in the wood, a very 

 common place of growth, and under such circumstances the 

 plants are often closely crowded into rows following the crack 

 for several inches. Altogether larger and differing from G. 

 pezizceformis in the crowded habit. 



