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more or less uneven with gyrose convolutions, yellow, often 
changing to orange or reddish brown in drying; 
stem distinet, firm, solid, nearly equal, yellow, often 
tinged with brown at the base, rarely throughout 
c» 9 its whole extent, sometimes divided at the top into 
Q two branches, each bearing a head" ; basidia forked, 
(| about 25 x 21% u, bearing two divergent, obtuse 
Fig. 4. D. stip- sterigmata about 6-9 x 2 w; spores hyaline, even, 
itata. Basidium Simple at first, becoming 1-septate, 7-9 x 3 y. 
and spores of — Fructifieations 1-2 em. high. 
type X 005. “On decaying wood in swamps. Forestburgh, 
New York. September. 
“The texture of the stem is very unlike that of the head. The 
color of the stem generally fades to whitish or pallid in drying. 
The stem is sometimes slightly recurved at the top and appears 
to penetrate the receptacle as in the genus Spathularia. Barren 
stems occur obtusely pointed at the apex and destitute of a 
head." 
I have the impression that I saw at one time an ample col- 
lection of the above species from New Hampshire in Farlow 
Herb., but I could not locate these specimens recently when 
desiring to make sure that their microscopic characters were 
like those of Peck’s type. Dacryomitra dubia as understood by 
Coker appears distinct by its much larger spores. Authentic 
D. dubia Lloyd, communicated by Miss Hibbard to Lloyd, 
should be compared with D. stipitata. 
A stipitate species related to the preceding was originally 
published as Exidia pedunculata B. & C. and has recently been 
transferred to Dacryomyces by Coker, but I can not reconcile 
the illustrations and description of his specimens with the type 
of Exidia pedunculata in its dried condition in Curtis Herbarium; 
it seems to me that Dacryomyces pedunculatus Coker is a very 
different species, for the original specimens of the former have 
slender, sulcate stems 144 mm. in diameter, standing up 1-2 mm. 
above the woody substratum and bearing at the top of each a 
small fertile head about 1 mm. in diameter, the general aspect 
of the whole fructification somewhat resembling that of a stipi- 
