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Genus 47. Exidia.* Fr. 

 Tremulous, margined and glandular above, barren beneath. 

 Exidia glandulosa, Fr. Leigh Woods. Eng. Bot., ts. 24:-18 and 

 2452. Huss. i., t. 42. 



E. Recisa, Fr. Eng. Bot., t. 1819. Batheaston. 

 Two out of three British species. 



Genus 48. HmNEoLA.t Fr. 

 Gelatinous, cup-shaped, homy when dry ; hymenium more or less 



wrinkled ; interstices even, without papilloe ; outer surface 



velvety. 



Hirneola Auricula-Judce. B. Outhues, pi. 18, fig. 7. Huss. i., 

 t. 53. Common on elder, &c. 



Our only British species. 



Genus 49, NiEMATELiA.:}: Fr. 

 Nucleus solid, heterogeneous, covered with a gelatinous stratum, 



which is everywhere clothed with the hymenium. 



Nisematelia Encephala, Fr. On larch. Wild. Bot. Mag. i., t. 4, 



fig. 14. 



N. Virescens, Cd. On Gorse, Wraxall, Somerset. 



Two out of three British species. 



Genus 50. Dacrymtces. 1| Ntes. 



Homogeneous, gelatinous ; conidia disposed in moniliform rows ; 



sporophores clavate, at length bifurcate. 



Dacrymyces Deliquescens, Duhy. Batheaston. 



D. Sebaceus, B. and Br. § 



* Exidia, from exudo, I exude. 



t Hirneola, from hirnea, an earttem vessel. 



X Nsematelia, from nema, gelatine or a thread, and eileo, I involve. 



II Dacrymyces, from dakroun, a tear, and mukes, a fungus. 



§ Dacrymyces Sebaceus may be thus characterized. Albidus, sebaceus 



subrotundus, 2 — 4 lineas latus, coelo pluviali tantum conspicuus. Sporis ovato- 



triangularibus 0,0005 unc. Ang. longis 0,0002 — 0,0003 latis. E. filamcntis 



varie-ramosis, superne scepe clavatis orientibus. FUamentis hie illic in 



conidia globosa solventibus. D. ccesio Sommerf proximus. Ad virgulta 



fraxinea et acerinea. Heme, Batheaston, 1868. Besides the spores above 



described other bodies occur resembling those of a Fusisporium, which appear 



to grow from the same threads, but may possibly be parasitic on tho 



