DACBYOMYCES 741 



**Yellow, or orange. 



2526. D. deliquescens (Bull.) Duby. Bull. Hist. Champ. Fr. 455, 

 fig. 3, as Tremella deliquescens. Deliquescens, dissolving. 



R. 2-12 mm., yellow, or orange, somewhat round, convex, then 

 lens-shaped, immarginate, at length twisted, sessile, sometimes stipi- 

 tate and root-like. Flesh pale, gelatinous, hyaline. Spores white, 

 cylindrical, curved, 8-22 x 4-7 ju, becoming 3-septate, "each com- 

 partment producing 1-2 ovoid sporidiola, 3-4 x 2 /z; basidia 20-45 x 

 3-5 IJL. Hyphae l-S^u, in diam." Bourd. & Galz. Dead wood and fallen 

 branches. Jan. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



var. hyalinus (Pers.) Bourd. & Galz. (= Dacryomyces hyalinus (Pers.) 

 Quel. ; Tremella albida Huds. sec. Quel.) Hyalinus, transparent. 

 Differs from the type only in being at the first entirely hyaline, then 

 opaline. Birch. Sept. May. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2527. D. stfflatus (Nees) Fr. Nees Syst. t. 90. Stillatus, distilled. 

 R. 2-8 mm., yellow, then orange, colour persistent, globose, then 



umbilicate and Peziza-like, somewhat confluent, at length plicate, 

 sessile, or substipitate, white villose at the base, often yellow pruinose. 

 Flesh paler, gelatinous, then firm. Spores white, or yellowish, " ovoid, 

 or oblong, rarely depressed, 18-25 x 7-10/z, 1-pluri-guttulate, gutta 

 yellow, finally 1 -septate; basidia 50-60 x 7-1 2 /n, filled with orange 

 granules. Hyphae 1-5-3/x, in diam., with small clamp connections" 

 Bourd. & Galz. Dead pine branches. Jan. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



2528. D. chrysocomus (Bull.) Tul. Bull. Hist. Champ. Fr. t. 376, 



fig. 2. as Peziza chrysocoma. ^/overo?, gold; KG/JUT], hair. 



R. 2-3 mm., golden, orbicular, spherical when young, immarginate, 

 soon collapsing, pezizoid, at length flattened, persistently even. Flesh 

 paler, gelatinous, then cartilaginous, firm. Spores yellowish, "oblong 

 oval, or subelliptical, incurved especially towards the base, 12-24 x 

 6-9 p., becoming larger and 10-septate; basidia 45-85 x 4-6 JM. Hyphae 

 1-5-4 fj, in diam., with clamp connections" Bourd. & Galz. Coniferous 

 branches. Jan. Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2529. D.tortus (Berk.) Massee.(==TraweWatorto Berk.) Tortus, twisted. 

 R. 48 mm., yellow, or orange, rounded, depressed, gyroso-tubercu- 



late. Flesh paler, gelatinous, firm. Spores white, cylindrical, curved, 

 12 x 4-5 ju, 3-septate. Dead oak branches. Oct. May. Not un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



2530. D. succineus Fr. (= Peziza electrina Phill. & Plowr.) Boud. 

 Icon. t. 181. Succineus, amber colour. 



R. -5 mm., yellow amber, punctiform, globose, gregarious, forming 

 patches 3-6 cm. ; margin minutely toothed, paler on the outside. 



