66 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Hydnum, Cke., Hdbk., p. 298. 



A very remarkable genus, with the gelatinous consistency, 

 basidia, and spores of the Tremellini, but superficially re- 

 sembling the genus Hydnum in the distinct spines present on 

 the hymenium. 



Tremellodon gelatinosum. Pers. (figs. 4-5, p. 48.) 



Gelatinous, tremelloid, dimidiate or fan-shaped, 1-3 in. 

 across, thick, extended behind into a lateral thick, stem-like 

 base, pileus brownish with opalescent shades, very minutely 

 granular ; hymenium watery-grey ; teeth stout, acute, 12 

 lines long, whitish ; spores subglobose, 7-8 /A diam. 



Tremellodon gelatinosum^ Pers., Myc. Eur. ii. p. 172; Stev., 

 Fung., p. 247. 



Hydnum gelatinosum, Cke., Hdbk., p. 298. 



On pine stumps and on the ground. Gregarious, very 

 variable in form and size but unmistakable, being our only 

 tremelloid fungus with true spines. 



DACRYOMYCETEAE. 

 DACEYOMYCES. Nees. (figs. 12, 13, p. 56.) 



Gelatinous, homogeneous, rather plicato-gyrose, every- 

 where covered with the hymenium; basidia terminating 

 ordinary hyphae, tereti-clavate, bifurcate at the apex when 

 mature ; spores cylindric-oblong, curved, at maturity or 

 during germination variously septate, sometimes becoming 

 muriform ; in conidia-bearing sporophores the conidia, which 

 more or less resemble the spores in size and form, are pro- 

 duced in chains. 



Dacryomyces, Nees, Syst., p. 89 ; Sacc., Syll. vi. p. 796. 



Minute gelatinous fungi occurring on dead wood, often 

 of an orange or yellow colour. 



Dacryomyces macrosporus. B. & Br, 



Gelatinous, tuberculate, rosy; spores cylindric-oblong, 

 becoming 3-5 septate, constricted at the septa. i 



