1921] 
BURT—TREMELLACEAE, DACRYOMYCETACEAE, AURICULARIACEAE 387 
Dried fructifications 2 x 2-4 mm.; confluent masses 5-12 
x 5-7 mm.; stem up to 4 mm. long. 
On fallen decaying branches of Betula lutea in mountain 
forests (reported by Karsten on Alnus incana). Ontario, Ver- 
mont, and New York. August, February, and March. Rare. 
Reference of our specimens to Ditiola conformis has been 
confirmed by comparison with the type distribution by Karsten 
cited above; and they agree well with the description and illus- 
tration by Karsten although in America forming pulvinate 
masses by confluence of the hymenial portions of a cluster of 
fructifications. They are certainly cogeneric with Ditiola radi- 
cata, which I collected abundantly in Sweden but have not yet 
found in the United States. 
Specimens examined: 
Exsiccati: Karsten, Fungi Fenn. Exs., 629; Ell. & Ev., N. Am. 
Fungi, 2607, under the name Dacryomyces fragiformis. 
‘anada: Ontario, London, J. Dearness, in Ell. & Ev., N. Am. 
Fungi, 2607. 
Vermont: Ripton, Abby Pond, E. A. Burt, and Lost Pleiad 
Pond, E. A. Burt. 
New York: Catskill Mts., C. H. Peck (in N. Y. State Mus. 
Herb.). 
As Tremella stipitata, Peck described a species which has 
furcate basidia and spores simple at first but becoming 1-sep- 
tate. The presence of a stem places this species in the genus 
Dacryomitra, as follows: 
Dacryomitra stipitata (Peck) Burt, n. comb. Plate 3, figs. 3, 4. 
Tremella stipitata Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Rept. 27:100. pl. 
2.f. 22, 28. 1875; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 6: 788. 1888; as Coryne 
Coker, Elisha Mitchell Scientif. Soc. Jour. 35: 150. 1920.— 
An Dacryopsis ceracea Coker, Elisha Mitchell Scientif. Soc. 
Jour. 35:175. pl. 50. f. 1; pl. 65. f. 8, 4. 1920? 
Illustrations: Peck, loc. cit. 
Type: in N. Y. State Mus. Herb. 
“Head small, tremelloid, subglobose or irregular, glabrous, 
