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threads flexuous, often suddenly curled over at the origin of the branches,— This description is taken from the Tas- 
manian specimens, but the Fuegian and Chilian plants appear to be the same thing, differing only in their brighter 
colour.—PrATE CLXXXIIL Fig. 6, structure of plant; 4 b, spores, more or less magnified. 
Gen. XXXIII. DACRYMYCES, Nees. 
Omnia Zremelle exceptis sporis septatis conidiis ma nis spermatiisque e sporis oriundis. 
H P gnis spe q po 
The hymenium is more or less indeterminate, as in Tremella, but the spores are se tate, and the spermatia 
P P pe 
grow on the spores. There are also large conidia, formed from the articulations of the terminal branchlets. (Name 
from daxpv, a tear, and puras, a fungus.) 
1. Dacrymyces deliquescens (Duby). 
Haz. On dead wood, Archer. 
The cells in the curved spores vary from four to six. 
2. Dacrymyces miltinus (Berk.); pusilla, cinnabarina, gyroso-lobata. (TAB. CLXXXIIL Fig. 7.) 
Haz. On hard, dry wood, Archer. 
Of a bright, red-orange, short, wavy, lobed. Spores oblongo-reniform, at length 6-septate, 1255-1800 inch 
long. Sporophores swollen.—The brighter colour, larger and more swollen sporophores, and 6-septate spores, dis- 
tinguish this species from D. deliguescens.— LATE CLXXXIIL Fig. 7; a, plants, maf. size; b, sporophores ; 
c, spore :—both magnified. 
3. Dacrymyces sclerotioides (Berk.) ; albus, orbicularis, centro depressus, pezizeeformis. (Tas. 
CLXXXIII. Fig. 8.) 
Has. On dead bark, J. D. H. 
About 1 line broad, white, orbicular, depressed in the centre, almost cartilaginous. Nucleus firm; ultimate 
apices of some of the branches clavate and septate.—This and the following species agree in the septate tips of 
some of the branches, corresponding with the deciduous tips in the asporous form of D. deliquescens. In neither 
have I at present found true spores.—PLATE CLXXXIII. Fig. 8; a, plants, nat. size; 6, c, structure, magnified ; 
d, ditto in D. seriatus. 
4. Dacrymyces seriatus (Berk.) ; erumpens, seriatus, albidus, sublutescens, irregularis, substra- 
tosus. 
Haz. On dead bark, Archer. 
Forming rows of confluent, small, dirty-white, subcartilaginous patches, which exhibit within three or four 
concentric lines of growth. ‘Tips of some of the threads clavate and septate. 
Gen. XXXIV. OCTAVIANIA, Fitt. 
Integumentum molliusculum, haud ægre solubile; trama e fibris byssaceis intexta. Spore spherice, 
demum echinate. 
A genus of Truffles, allied to Hydnangium, but differing in its more easily separable integument, fibrous not 
cellular trama, and globose spores. (Name from Ottaviani, an Italian mycophilist.) 
1. Octaviania Archeri (Berk.) ; obovata, pusilla, basi sterili satis magna, fibrillis nullis, trama 
compacta, sporis globosis echinate. 
Has. On sandy ground, Archer. 
Obovate, + inch high. Peridium very thin, passing into a thick sterile base, from which proceeds a little 
