454 



TREMELLINACE^: 



Dacryomyces 



SUBFAMILY III. DACRYOMVCETOIDE^E 



Basidia cylindrical or clavate, divided at the apex into two long 

 sterigmata, not septate, except in Femsjonia, where the basidia and 

 sterigmata become septate with age. Species 2030 2041 



CIV. DACRYOMYCES Nees. 

 (From the tear-like habit ; Gr. dakru, a tear, mukes, a fungus.) 



Small, pulvinate, gelatinous, homogeneous, somewhat plicato- 

 gyrose, everywhere covered with the hymenium. Basidia terminating 

 normal hyphag, tereti-clavate, bifurcate at the apex when mature. 



Fig. 119. A, Dacryomyces deliqiiesccns Duby. One-half natural 

 size. B, basidium and sj. ores ; c, spore germinating and producing 

 sporidiola. X 500. 



Spores cylindric-oblong, curved, at maturity or during germination 

 variously septate or muriform. In the conidia-bearing sporophores 

 the conidia, which more or less resemble the spores in size and 

 form, are produced in chains. (Fig. 119.) 



The species grow on dead wood. Species 2030 2036 



Rose-coloured. 2030 



Orange, yellow or yellowish. 2031 2033 



Pallid or fuscous. 2034 



2030. D. maerosporus B. & Br. (from the long spores ; Gr. makros* 



long) a b c. 



Gelatinous, tuberculate, minutely gyroso^granular. 

 Branches, in cracks, on remains of Sphceria stigma. Dec. -Apr. Connate 

 chains 2 x in. 



