1921] 
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usage, with the entire gathering of material in fresh, vegetative 
condition before him. In the specimens constituting the type, 
the fructifications while small for a Tremella, as published by 
Peck, are large for a species of the Dacryomyces deliquescens 
group, being up to 7 mm. long, 14-14 mm. broad, now fuscous 
in dried condition and ochraceous drab and with surface wrinkled 
when softened by wetting; basidia cylindric, 30 x 4 v, with 2 
obtuse, divergent sterigmata, 444-6 x 1/4 w; spores continuous 
at first, mostly 1-septate, but becoming 3-septate, 9-13 x 3-4 
u, curving below into a tapering, oblique base. 
On Populus and Salix. Vermont and New York. Septem- 
ber and November. Probably rare. 
Specimens examined: 
Vermont: Middlebury, E. A. Burt. 
New York: Albany, C. H. Peck, type (in N. Y. State Mus. 
Herb.). 
Still another species of the D. deliquescens group with large 
fructifications of the aspect of those of D. subochraceus but 
with broader, less curved spores was published independently 
by Coker and by Bresadola in 1920. This species has spores 
of the same dimensions and form as those of D. deliquescens but 
fructifications larger, drying paler, and occurring on frondose 
wood only, agreeing in these features with D. subochraceus. 
The description by Coker was published a few weeks earlier 
than that by Bresadola, hence the name of this species, if not 
too close to D. subochraceus, is 
D. Ellisii Coker, Elisha Mitchell Scientif. Soc. Jour. 35: 167. 
pl. 23. f. 11; pl. 50; pl. 63. f. 8. 7 Jl. 1920. 
D. Harperi Bresadola, Ann. Myc. 18: 53. 31 Ag. 1920. 
Illustrations: Coker, loc. cit. 
Gregarious, bursting through the bark and forming sub- 
globose or pulvinate, crumpled, firmly gelatinous masses, orange 
or wine-colored, fading to olive-buff and drying sepia and with 
surface plicate-gyrose, the base whitish and buried in the bark; 
spores hyaline under the microscope, noted by Coker as orange 
in spore collections, 12 x 5-6 y. 
Dried fructifications 3-5 x 2-3 mm., and 2 mm. high. 
On bark of dead limbs of alder, oak, and other frondose spe- 
