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FUNGUS-FLORA. 



umbilicate, sessile, produced laterally, one on each of the cells 

 of a basidium. 



Pilacre, Fries, Syst, Orb. Veg. 1, p. 364 ; Brefeld, Unter- 

 such. vii. Heft., p. 27. 



FIGURES ILLUSTRATING THE PILACBEAE, ALSO THE 

 TEEMELLINEAE IN PART. 



Fig. 1, Pilacre Petersii, natural size ; Fig. 2, section of same, mag. ; 

 Fig. 3, cluster of transversely septate basidia of same, bearing lateral 

 spores ; highlyjnag. ; Fig. 4, Tremellodon gelatinosum, a small specimen ; 

 nat. size ; Fig. 5, basidium of same, with the four long, stout steriginata 

 bearing spores ; highly mag. 



Pilacre faginea. B. & Br. 



Gregarious, up to ^ in. high, head about 1^ lines across, 

 whitish with a brown tinge ; stem blackish ; threads of gleba 

 tortuous, spores subglobose, yellow-brown, 5 //.. 



Pilacre faginea, B. and Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 380, t. xi. 

 fig. 5 ; Sacc. Syll. 4, n. 2748. 



On rotten beech-wood. 



Pilacre Petersii. B. & C. (figs. 1, 2, 3, p. 48.) 

 Stem 2-3 lines high, -whitish, head 2-3 lines across ; spores 

 circular and sub-umbilicate, brown, 5 p. diameter, 



