1921] 
BURT—TREMELLACEAE, DACRYOMYCETACEAE, AURICULARIACEAE 383 
f. 8. (oidium stage). 1902; Tulasne, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. III. 
19. pl. 12. f. 13-19; pl. 13. f. 1-8. (oidium stage). 1853. 
Fructifications gregarious, small, pulvinate, avellaneo-ochrace- 
ous, somewhat wrinkled, becoming more flattened and resin- 
colored in drying; spores even, curved, simple, becoming 1-3- 
septate, 10-14 x 314-5 u. 
Fructifications 1-5 mm. long, 1-3 mm. broad, usually only 
1-2 mm. in diameter. 
Usually on decorticated, partially decayed pine and other 
coniferous wood but sometimes on frondose species. Vermont 
to Alabama, westward to Missouri, and in Alaska. March to 
November. Common. 
Dacryomyces deliquescens is characterized by its small, smoky, 
ochraceous or pale greenish ochraceous fructifications with 
somewhat wrinkled surface and spores 10-14 u long and not 
more than 3-septate. In most of my American gatherings on 
pine the fructifications are smaller than European specimens. 
Peck compared one of my specimens with his type of D. minor 
and reported ‘‘The spores seem too large for this. Is it not small 
D. deliquescens?" 
Specimens examined: 
Exsiecati: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi, 333, under the name D. stillatus; 
Ravenel, Fungi Am., 135, under the name D. stillatus; Sydow, 
Mye. Germ., 555; de Thümen, Myc. Univ., 1209. 
England: Epping Forest, E. A. Burt. 
Sweden: Femsjó, E. A. Burt. 
Germany: Brandenburg, P. Vogel, in Sydow, Myc. Germ., 
555 
Vermont: Middlebury, 5 gatherings, E. A. Burt; Ripton, E. A. 
Burt. 
New York: Sartwell (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 5301, 5302); 
Westport, C. H. Peck. 
New Jersey: Newfield, J. B. Ellis, in Ellis, N. Am. Fungi, 333, 
and in de Thümen, Myc. Univ., 1209. 
South Carolina: Aiken, H. W. Ravens in Ravenel, Fungi Am., 
135. 
Alabama: Montgomery County, R. P. Burke, 538 (in Mo. Bot. 
Gard. Herb., 57371). 
