450 BRITISH FUNGI 



C. viscosa (PL XXMI, fig. 8). — \'iscid and tough wlien moist, 

 horny when dry, forking into many long, straight branches, clear, 

 deep orange, with a. long, white rooting base, 2-3 in. high. 



Common on decaying pine stumps. 



C. cornea. — Growing in small tufts, upright, tapering, rarely 

 with a short branch, pale orange-yellow, |-f in. high. 



Resembling slender orange spikes projecting from the dead 

 wood. Often growing in large quantities. 



C. stricta. — Somewhat resembling C. cornea, but growing singly 

 and not at all branched, |-i in. high. 



On trunks, yellow, rigid when dry. 



C. striata. — Simple ( =unbranched), about J in. high, tip sharp, 

 yellow, longitudinally wrinkled ^\•hen dry. 



Somewhat resembling C. cornea, but distinguished by being 

 solitary, and wrinkled ^\•hen dr}'. 



On trunks. 



C. glossoides. — Simple, solitary, yellow, somewhat gelatinous, 

 round and slender below, thickened and flattened above, tip blunt, 

 about \ in. high. 



On trunks. 



DACRYOrSIS 



Small, subgelatinous, shortly stipitate, the fertile portion capi- 

 tate or forming a head, which is at first covered with conidia, fol- 

 lowed by basidia bearing spores. 



Distinguished, under the microscope, from very similar-looking 

 fungi by the surface of the head at first bearing a crop of minute 

 conidia, borne on very slender threads or conidiophores. These are 

 followed by normal basidia bearing two spores each. 



D. nuda. — Gregarious. Head 1-2 lines across, hemispherical, 

 flattened below, reddish orange (conidia elliptic-oblong, 3x1 />i ; 

 spores ehiptic-oblong, 3-septate, 14x5 fj). 



On fir stumps. 



DiTIOLA 



Hymenium discoid, gelatinous, running down into a firm, stem- 

 like rooting base. 



This genus should perhaps be merged into Dacryopsis, but the 

 layer of conidia preceding the spores has not as yet been 

 observed. 



D. radicata. — Hymenium plane or sliglitly depressed, golden 

 yellow, running down as a stout, simple or branched, white, downy 

 rooting base (spores elliptic-oblong, i-septate, 8-12x4-5 /^). 



Rooting base i-§ in. long, hymenium 2-3 lines across, clear 

 yellow. 



On rotten wood, among fallen pine leaves, etc. 



