Dacryomyces deliquescens. A. H. R. Buller. 229 
of wood both hard and soft, but especially on coniferous woods. 
Massee says that the fruit-bodies are 1-4 lines wide. These 
measurements seem to me a little too large. As Massee says, 
the fruit-bodies are yellow. However, I find that the fruit- 
bodies most exposed to the light are the yellowest, and that 
those which grow under logs and boards and in other very dark 
situations are relatively very pale yellow and sometimes almost 
colourless. 
Massee*, in his “British Fungus-Flora,’”’ describes the red 
fruit-bodies of Dacryomyces deliquescens as follows: 
“Dacryomyces stillatus Nees. 
Gelatinous, rounded, convex, more or less plicate, persistently 
orange; spores cylindrical, curved, and multiseptate, 18-22 x 
7-8 p. 
Dacryomyces stillatus. Nees, Syst., p. 89, f. 90; Cke., Hdbk., 
P. 352. 
On pine and other decaying wood. Distinguished from 
D. deliquescens by its rather small size, firmer substance, 
deeper orange colour, and larger, multiseptate spores. Usually 
barren.” 
Massee describes these red fruit-bodies as being more or less 
plicate. My experience is that they are mostly hemispherical 
and irregularly humped or obtusely tuberculate rather than 
plicate. He also says: “‘spores cylindrical, curved, multiseptate, 
18-22 x 7-8,” but he fails to tell his readers that by ‘spores’ 
he means not basidiospores, but oidia embedded in the gela- 
tinous outer layer of the fruit-body. Each oidium has at least 
one septum across it, but the oidia hang together in chains and 
show all stages of separation from one another. Only the chains 
of oidia are multiseptate. The width of the oidia I find to be 
2-4 and not 7-8. They are but rarely as wide as the basidio- 
spores. The 2-celled oidia are 12-15 long, but chains of 
these oidia imperfectly separated from one another may be 45 
or even 60, long. The oidia are usually curved or undulate 
and are sometimes more or less Y-shaped. In each cell there 
are usually two small central rounded bright spots, so that the 
chains of cells are guttulate. The oidia on the exterior of the 
fruit-body produce a few tiny oval conidia about 2y long. If 
a red fruit-body be touched into a drop of water on a slide, 
some of these conidia can usually be found in the drop among 
the oidia, and occasionally one may find them attached to their 
oidia. Massee says that the fruit-bodies are “usually barren.” 
Exactly what is meant by this is not clear. As a matter of fact 
the red fruit-bodies always produce a crop of oidia and never 
any basidiospores. 
* G. Massee, loc. cit., p. 67. 
