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cies. Massachusetts to North Carolina and in Wisconsin and 
Illinois. October to February. Rare. 
D. Ellisit is thicker and more pulvinate than D. deliquescens 
and has the hymenium more plicate-gyrose, broader spores, a 
whitish basal portion, visible upon dissecting away the outer 
bark, and it occurs on bark-covered limbs of frondose species; 
the aspect is suggestive of a Tremella. 
Specimens examined: 
Wisconsin: Madison, W. T'release (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 
5358). 
Under the name Dacryomyces fragiformis (Pers.), Ellis dis- 
tributed in Ell. & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 2607, an infrequent north- 
ern species of which the specimens were collected on dead limbs 
of yellow birch at London, Canada, by Professor J. Dearness. 
D. fragiformis was published by Persoon as Tremella fragiformis 
and described by him as a red species occurring on dead branches 
of pine; in his illustration the wood is decorticated. The orig- 
inal description and illustration present a fungus very different 
from our species on birch, which is of pezizoid aspect, with 
yellow hymenium and white stem, and is referable to Ditiola 
conformis Karst. 
Ditiola conformis Karsten, Notis. ur Sillsk pro Fauna et 
Flora Fennica Fórh. 11: 223. 1871; Finska Vet.-Soc. Bidrag 
Natur och Folk 48: 461. 1889; Soc. Sci. Fenn. Actis 18: 110. 
pl. 6.f. 80. 1891; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6:813. 1888. 
An Guepinia Femsjoniana Olsen in Brefeld, Untersuch. Myk. 
7:161. pl. 11. f. 3-5. 1888? 
Illustrations: Karsten, loc. cit. 
Type: Type distribution in Karsten, Fungi Fenn. Exs., 629. 
Fructifieations erumpent through the bark, stipitate, solitary 
and pezizoid or cespitose and becoming confluent and then 
forming pulvinate masses with hymenial surface plicate, cinna- 
mon-buff to ochraceous buff; stem expanding above, white- 
floceose; basidia bifurcate; spores yellow in spore collection, 
simple at first, then pluriguttulate, finally l-7-septate, 18-28 
x 7-9 Uu. 
