DITIOLA. FEMSJONIA. DACRYOMITRA 743 



2535. D. merulina (Pers.) Rea. (= Guepinia merulina (Pers.) Quel.; 

 Guepinia peziza Tul. sec. Pat.) Quel. Jur. et Vosg. i, t. 20, 

 fig. 6, as Tremella lutescens Pers. 



Merulina, like the genus Merulius. 



R. 1-3 cm., yellow amber, cup-shaped, oblique, often irregular, and 

 with linear folds on the outside; margin thin, waved. St. concolorous, 

 slender. Flesh yellowish, diaphanous, gelatinous, then firm. Spores 

 white, "oboval, or oblong, depressed at the side, 9-13 x 5-6 /A, 1-3- 

 septate. Conidia rough, subglobose, 9-12/z, formed on the exterior 

 of the receptacle. Hyphae swollen at the ends, 5-6/i in diam., with 

 Opuntia-like branches" Bourd. & Galz. Dead branches, and wood, 

 especially beech. Dec. Feb. Uncommon. 



2536. D. obliqua (Massee) Rea. Obliqua, slanting. 

 R. 4 mm. high, orange red, concave, oblique, often like a rabbit's 



ear. St. concolorous, short, oblique. Flesh gelatinous, then horny. 

 Spores white, elliptical, slightly curved, 12 x 5-6/A. Gregarious. 

 Dead wood. Nov. Rare. 



Femsjonia Fr. 

 (Femsjonia, belonging to Femsjo.) 



Receptacle gelatinous, or floccose, heterogeneous, erumpent, con- 

 vex, then plane, obconic, sessile. Hymenium smooth, becoming 

 wrinkled. Basidia cylindrical, with two long, pointed sterigmata. 

 Spores yellowish, boat-shaped, simple, and multi-guttulate, then be- 

 coming oblong and multi-septate. Growing on wood. 



2537. F. luteo-alba Fr. Luteus, yellow; alba, white. 

 R. 215 cm., bright golden yellow, erumpent, convex, then plane, 



obconic, sessile, somewhat rooting, disc becoming wrinkled with age, 

 white tomentose beneath. Flesh yellowish, subgelatinous near the hy- 

 menium, floccose below, firm. Spores yellowish, boat-shaped at first 

 and multi-guttulate, 12-21 x 7-8/t, becoming oblong, and 8-10-or 

 more-septate, 18-22 x 7-8 /j,. Basidia cylindrical, 75-80 x 5-7 /A, with 

 two long sterigmata, 35-40ju. Hyphae with clamp connections. Fallen 

 branches of oak, and birch. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



Dacryomitra Tul. (= Dacryopsis Massee). 



(Sd/cpvov, a tear; i^Lrpa, a turban.) 



Receptacle gelatinous, or subgelatinous, firm, erect, cylindrical, 

 apex globose, or elongate, stipitate. Hymenium smooth, or rugosely 

 wrinkled. Basidia cylindrical, with two long sterigmata. Conidiophores 

 present, or absent, accompanying, or preceding the basidia. Spores 

 white, oblong, or elliptical, smooth, simple, or transversely septate. 

 Growing on wood. 



