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Sometimes, however, patches of red and patches of yellow fruit- 

 bodies appear near to one another on the same piece of wood but 



FIG. 59. Dacryomyces deliquescens. Photographs showing yellow basidial and 

 red oidial fruit-bodies on the same pieces of wood. A, soft wood (Larix ?) ; 

 above the dividing line d d is a group of basidial fruit-bodies, 6, and below it 

 a group of oidial fruit-bodies, o. B, a piece of oak-wood bearing basidial fruit- 

 bodies, 6, mixed with oidial fruit-bodies, o. C, another piece of soft wood 

 (Larix ?) bearing basidial fruit-bodies, 6, above the dividing line dd, and 

 oidial fruit-bodies below. To the left basidial and oidial fruit-bodies are 

 mixed together. D, a piece of wood bearing a few small oidial fruit-bodies, 

 o, and basidial fruit-bodies, b, which have become fused together into large 

 gyrose masses during their development. Found at King's Heath, near 

 Birmingham, England. Photographed natural size. 



not intermingled ; and, finally, sometimes red and yellow fruit- 

 bodies appear on wood intermingled promiscuously. According to 

 Tulasne, yellow fruit-bodies may be found which have red spots 



