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382 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Examination of the spores should be made in case of speci- 
mens otherwise referable to D. abietinus, for I find by making 
microscopic study of specimens in published exsiccati and in 
herbaria that most of the specimens labeled D. stillatus have 
spores much smaller than the dimensions given above and are 
not more than 3-septate; such specimens are better referable to 
D. deliquescens, the species next to be considered. In the Mis- 
souri Botanical Garden Herbarium there is a specimen from 
Magnus under the name D. stillatus, and another from Berke- 
ley in Berkeley’s “British Fungi,’ No. 164, and another in Westen- 
dorp, ‘Herb. Crypt.’, 139; these specimens have somewhat the 
aspect of what they are labeled but are composed of intricately 
interwoven, coarse, vermiform hyphae with elongated cells con- 
taining many vacuoles and with spore-like bodies not differenti- 
ated from the hyphae; no basidia were found. These specimens 
are not distinguishable from the oidium stage of D. deliquescens, 
as illustrated by Tulasne! and by Falk.* 
Specimens examined: 
Exsiecati: Rabenhorst, Herb. Myc., 276; Ravenel, Fungi Car. 
4: 81. 
Sweden: Upsala, E. A. Burt. 
Germany: in Rabenhorst, Herb. Myc., 276. 
Italy: G. Bresadola. 
Vermont: Middlebury, E. A. Burt. 
South Carolina: Ravenel, in Ravenel, Fungi Car. 4: 81. 
D. deliquescens (Bull.) Duby, Bot. Gall. 2: 729. 1829; Berke- 
ley, Outl. Brit. Fung. 290. 1860; Fries, Hym. Eur. 698. 1874; 
Saec. Syll. Fung. 6: 798. 1888; Morgan, Cincinnati Soc. Nat. 
Hist. Jour. 11: 94. 1888; Bourdot & Galzin, Soc. Myc. Fr. 
Bul. 25: 34. 1909. 
Tremella deliquescens Bulliard, Herb. de la France 1: 219. 
pl. 465. f. 8. 1789.—Dacryomyces minor Coker, Elisha Mitchell 
Scientif. Soc. Jour. 35: 168. pl. 49. f. left; pl. 64. f. 1-2. 1920. 
Illustrations: Bulliard, loc. cit.; Coker, loc. cit.; Brefeld, Unter- 
such. Myk. 7. pl. 9; Falk, Cohn's Beitr. Biol. Pflanzen 8. pl. 12. 
1 Tulasne, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. III. 19: 216-219. pl. 13. f. 1-3. 1853. 
2 Falk, Cou) Beitr. Biol. Pflanzen 8: pl. 12. f. 3. 1902. 
