DACRYMYCES. 



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GENUS LXIL Ghiepinia (after Guepin). Fr. Elench. 



Gelatinous inclining to cartilaginous, free, different on 

 sides, variable in form, substipitate ; 

 hymenium confined to one side ; 

 sporophores linear, long-forked, 2- 

 spored ; spores curved. Fr. Hym. 

 Eur.p. 697. 



1. G. peziza Tul. Yellow, cup- 

 shaped, somewhat sessile, smooth 

 on both sides, adnate behind ; stem 

 slender. 



Very remarkable in having the hymenium 

 on the upper side. 



On wood. Shere. 



Name From its being like Peziza. Tul. 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. 1853, p. 224. Fr. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 697. Grevillea, vol. vi. p. 71. PI. 



97./. 19, 20. 



ii. p. 

 the 



30. 

 two 



C. Guepinia helvelloides. One- 

 half natural size. 



, a fungus). Dacrymyces. 



GENUS LXIII. Dacrymyces (5a/cpu, a tear; 

 Nees Syst. p. 89. 



Gelatinous, homogeneous, pervaded internally with septate 

 fibres; conidia linked together like 

 a necklace; sporophores clavate at 

 the end of the filaments, bifurcate 

 when mature ; spores septate. Tul. 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. 1853, /. n. / 19. /. 

 12. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 697. 



* Red. 



** Yellowish. 



*** Pallid or fuscous. 



* Red. 



1. D. macrosporus B. & Br. 



Rose-colour, gelatinous, tuberculated. 



Forming irregular gyrate and tuberculated 

 masses of a rosy colour, about 6 mm. 



(Yi in.) long, parasitic on old remains of CI. Dacrymyces sebaceus. Natural 

 Sph&ria stigma. It preserves its rosy tint size. Section five hundred times 

 when dry. natural size. 



