742 DACRYOMYCES. DITIOLA 



Hymenium darker, velvety with the projecting sterigmata. Flesh 

 subgelatinous. Spores white, oblong, slightly curved, 7-15 x 4-5 p; 

 basidia with two long sterigmata. Fallen oak branches and pine 

 leaves. Rare. 



***Pallid, or fuscous. 



2531. D. sebaceus B. & Br. B. & Br. Ann. Nat. Hist. no. 1305, t. 18, 

 fig. 2. Sebaceus, like tallow. 



R. 4-8 mm., whitish, somewhat round, cup-shaped. Flesh white, 

 gelatinous, firm. Spores white, ovato-triangular, 14 x 6-8/z. Hyphae 

 often clavate above. Ash, and maple twigs. Jan. May. Uncommon. 

 (9.9.) 



2532. D. venniformis B. & Br. B. & Br. Ann. Nat. Hist. no. 700, 

 t. 3, fig. 1. Vermis, a worm ; /orma, shape. 



R. 1 mm., grey, worm-shaped. Sporophores 14//,, spores 6/z. Rotten 

 wood. April Sept. Rare. 



Ditiola Fr. 

 (819, twice; touXo?, down.) 



Receptacle gelatinous, subgelatinous, sometimes becoming horny, 

 always firm and becoming indurated in the stem ; cup-shaped, tuber- 

 cular, or globose, sometimes branched, or lobed; stipitate, or sub- 

 stipitate. Hymenium discoid, unilateral, smooth. Basidia cylindrical, 

 with two long sterigmata. Spores white, oblong, cylindrical, ellip- 

 tical, or elliptic cylindrical, smooth, simple, or 1-3 transversely 

 septate. Growing on wood. 



2533. D. radicate (A. & S.) Fr. (= Femsjonia luteo-alba Fr. sec. Quel.) 

 Eng. & Prantl. Pflanz. Fam. 1**, p. 98, fig. 63, M-Q. 



Radicata, rooted. 



R. 2-8 mm., orange, tubercular, then nail-shaped with a distinct 

 stem, convex, slightly viscid; margin obtuse. St. 3-6 x 2-3 mm., at 

 first whitish, soon concolorous, rooting. Flesh paler, subgelatinous 

 above, firm below. Spores white, oblong, cylindrical, rounded at both 

 ends, 9-10 x 4/x, becoming 1-3-septate; basidia cylindrical. Hyphae 

 with clamp connections. Dead coniferous branches. Oct. March. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2534. D. Ulicis Plowr. (= Femsjonia luteo-albaFT. sec. Lloyd.) Trans. 

 Brit. Myc. Soc. I, t. 2, figs. 2-6. Ulex, furze. 



R. 1-5-5 mm., pale lemon yellow, becoming darker, head globose, 

 then flattened and wrinkled, at first slightly villose with a thin, white, 

 hyaline tomentum. St. -5-1 mm., sometimes absent, hyaline-villose 

 when young. Spores white, elliptico-cylindrical, 15 x 5/z, 4-5-guttu- 

 late, then cylindrical, with an oblique, large apiculus at the base, 

 15-18 x 5/Li, 3-septate. Dead furze stems. Jan. Uncommon. 



