744 DACRYOMITRA. CALOCERA 



*Hymenium with basidia only. 



2538. D. glossoides (Pers.) Bref. (= Calocera glossoides (Pers.) Fr.) 



yXwcrcra, tongue; elSos, like. 



R. 3-12 mm. high, yellow, clavate, or pear-shaped, thickened, obtuse, 

 compressed, slightly viscid. St. concolorous, round, white floccose at 

 the base. Flesh concolorous, gelatinous, firm. Spores white, broadly 

 oblong, or elliptical, incurved, often attenuated at the base, 13-15 x 

 5-6/i, 2-3-septate. Dead oak branches. Sept. Dec. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



**Hymenium with conidiophores, and basidia. 



2539. D. nuda (Berk.) Pat. (= Ditiola nuda Berk.) Massee, Brit. 

 Fung. Fl. i, p. 56, figs. 56, as Dacryopsis nuda Massee. 



Nuda, naked. 



R 3-4 mm., reddish orange, head hemispherical, flattened below. 

 St. 3-4 x 2-3-5 mm., white, or tinged yellow, minutely tomentose. 

 Flesh subgelatinous. Spores white, elliptic oblong, with an oblique 

 apiculus, 14 x 5 /A, 3-septate; basidia cylindrical, 56-60 x 5-6//,. 

 Conidiophores linear, straight, aseptate, simple, or rarely with 1-3 

 short branchlets near the apex, 35-40 x 1-5/n; conidia elliptic oblong, 

 3 xl/x. Fir stumps. Sept. Rare. 



Calocera Fr. 



(/ca\o?, beautiful; epa<?, a horn.) 



Receptacle gelatinous coriaceous, cartilaginous when dry; erect 

 cylindrical, simple, or branched. Hymenium smooth, amphigenous. 

 Basidia with two long sterigmata. Spores white, or yellow, elliptical, 

 elliptic oblong, oblong, or comma-shaped, smooth, or punctate, simple, 

 becoming septate on germination. Conidiophores rarely accompanying 

 the basidia. Growing on wood, more rarely amongst leaves. 



*Branched. 



2540. C. viscosa (Pers.) Fr. Rolland, Champ, t. 104, no. 236, as 

 Calocera flammea (Schaeff.) Quel. Viscosa, sticky. 



R. 1-10 cm. high, golden-egg-yellow, becoming orange when dry, 

 branched, long rooted, viscid, even, linear. Branches concolorous, 

 round, or compressed, tense, straight, repeatedly dichotomous, apex 

 generally forked. Flesh yellow, gelatinous, then cartilaginous, firm. 

 Spores deep ochraceous, elliptic oblong, often depressed on one side, 

 10-11 x 4-5 n, 3-guttulate; basidia 40-50 x 5-6 /i. Coniferous stumps. 

 July Jan. Common, (v.v.) 



2541. C. palmata (Schum.) Fr. Pabnata, palmate. 

 R. 2 cm. high, orange, then yellow, branched, compressed, dilated 



upwards, divided. Branches concolorous, somewhat round, obtuse. 



