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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
Division a.—Hymenomycetes 
(Hymenium or spore-bearing surface exposed) 
This division of Autobasidiomycete or higher basidiomycete 
fungi comprises the following orders: Dacromycetales, Exobasidiales, 
Thelephorales, Clavariales and Agaricales. 
Order 1. —Dacromycetales. —This order includes the “weeping 
fungi.’’ One of the most common is Dacromyces deliquescens which 
Pig. 142. —Coral-like fruit-bodies of Clavaria flava. (Harshberger, from Photo 
by W. H. Walmsley.) 
occurs as a gelatinous body of bright red color on dead wood. The 
basidiospores are formed during a wet period and the fungus swells 
up in the water forming a slimy mass. In addition to basidiospores 
the mycelium may break up into oidiospores, if the wet period is 
prolonged. In consisting of slimy gelatinous masses the “weeping 
fungi” approach the Tremellacea but are distinguished from them 
