MYCOLOGICAL NOTES FOR 1920 167 
found for the first time in Pennsylvania on January 29, 1921, 
on a fallen log of Pinus Strobus. The dried plants appear as 
small scaly growths, dark in color, but when wet they swell 
up and take on a more waxy appearance and gelatinous texture. 
Fresh specimens measure I-2 mm. in diameter, or by confluence 
as much as 3 mm. The color is a waxy yellow in young speci- 
mens, verging to olivaceous or brownish when dried.. The 
fructification is almost disk-shaped, being considerably flattened, 
and the upper surface may be smooth or thrown into serpentine 
folds. The hymenium is composed of the usual bifurcate 
basidia (TEXT FIG. 7), each with two spores. The spores (TEXT 
FIG. 5) are short-cylindric though often narrowed at one end, 
hyaline, one-celled, and measure 10-12 x 3-4 p. The hyphae in 
Fics. 5-8. DACRYOMYCES HYALINA Quél. 
5. Mature spores. 6. Hypha with clamp connection. 7. Mature 
basidia. 8. Hypha with scabrous wall and clamp connection 
the trama vary from 4 v. to 6 w in diameter and the walls of the 
larger ones appear scabrous. Branching and anastomoses are 
common, but cross walls are not abundant. Contrary to the 
usual condition in the-Tremellales and the Dacryomycetales, 
clamp connections are found on the hyphae, though not abundant. 
On the older scabrous hyphae they are rather inconspicuous 
(Text FIG. 8) but on the younger hyphae they are not difficult 
to locate (TEXT FIG. 6). 
Good figures of this plant were recently published by Lloyd 
(Myc. Notes, No. 58, p. 828. 1919), who reports the species 
from North Carolina. The name employed to designate the 
species is open to criticism. The plants seem to be specifically 
distinct from D. deliquescens, which they resemble microscopical- 
ly as to spores and basidia, since the latter seems to lack the large 
