1921] 
BURT—TREMELLACEAE, DACRYOMYCETACEAE, AURICULARIACEAE 379 
appear a single, many-lobed mass with no differentiated base 
as in the illustration in Coker's pl. 48. 
Dacryomyces palmatus (Schw.) Burt, n. comb. Plate 3, fig. 2. 
Tremella palmata Schweinitz, Am. Phil. Soc. Trans. N. S. 4: 
186. 1832; Sacc. Syll Fung. 6: 782. 1888; Coker, Elisha 
Mitchell Scientif. Soc. Jour. 35: 151. 1920.—Dacryopsis pal- 
mata (Schw.) Lloyd, Myc. Writ. 6. Myc. Notes 64: 989. pl. 
159. f. 1762. 1921.—Dacryomyces chrysosperma Berk. & Curtis, 
Grevillea 2: 20. 1873; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 801. 1888.—D. 
aurantius Farlow, Appalachia 3: 248. 1883; Coker, Elisha 
Mitchell Scientif. Soc. Jour. 35: 163. pl. 23. f. 10; pl. 48; pl. 
63. f. 6, 7. 1920.—An Dacryomyces flabellum Ellis & Everhart, 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. 1894: 324. 1894? 
Illustrations: Coker, loc. cit.; Lloyd, loc. cit.; Gilbert, Wis. 
Acad. Trans. 16: 1156. pl. 83. f. 25, 26. 1910. 
Type: in Herb. Schweinitz. 
Fructifications gregarious or cespitose and forming erect, 
gelatinous, rounded, brain-like, complicated masses with sur- 
face lobed and folded, slimy when wet, cad- 
mium-yellow to ochraceous orange and drying the 
same color, penetrating the bark by a whitish, 
S S radicated base; basidia forked ; spores colored like 
the fructification, curved, becoming 5-7-septate, 
Fig. 2. D. palm- 18-28 x 6-7u. 
atus. Spores of type Mass fructifications up to 2 cm. high, 1-2 em. 
= broad, and 1-5 cm. long. 
On coniferous stumps, logs, and brush. Canada to Louisiana 
and westward to British Columbia and Washington. July to 
March. Common in New England. 
Dacryomyces palmatus is distinguished by its large size, bright 
orange-yellow color, and large 8-celled spores. Old mass forms 
attain the size of a large T'remella; some specimens of this species 
were distributed from Schweinitz’s herbarium under the name 
Tremella aurantia. Young, gregarious specimens bear some re- 
semblance in aspect to Guepinia spathularia, especially when 
dried, but the spores of the latter are only 8-10 x 44% V and 
usually simple or finally becoming only 2-celled. 
