180 
blackish brown, frosted with glistening crystals of oxalate of lime; 
hymeniumconcave, even, naked,blackish brown; basidia clavafe, tetras- 
perous; spores subglobose or broadly pyriform, smooth, pale brown, 
7 by 5yu. 
Peziza tela , Berk. & Curt., Grev., Vol. Ill, p. 156 (1875). 
Tapesia tela , (B. & C.) Sacc., Syll. Vol. viii, No. 1539. 
On wood. Lower Carolina. (Type in Herb. Berk., Kew, No 7724.) 
The present species, owing to its dark color and gregarious habit, also 
being furnished with a dense, white, broadly effused, superficial my¬ 
celium, suggests the genus Peziza when examined under a low power, 
but is a true Cypbella. 
DACRYOPSIS, Mass., ( wov.gen .) 
Small subgelatinous fungi, fertile portion capitate, sharply defined, 
terminal on a more or less elongated stem composed of parallel, simple 
or branched septate hyphae; at the apex of the stem the hyphae are very 
much interlaced, forming a compact expanded layer from which origin¬ 
ates in the first instance numerous slender gonidiophores spreading on 
every side to form a more or less capitate head; gonidia minute, one- 
celled, forming a dense layer; basidia cylindrical, bifurcate, aseptate, 
springing from the interlaced layer of hyphae at the apex of the stem, 
either contemporaneous with, or later than, the gonidiophores ; spores 
simple or septate. 
Coryne , Berk., Grev. Vol. II, p. 33 (in part). 
Ditiola , Berk., Ann. Nat. Hist., Ser. 2, Vol. II, p. 267, PI. ix, Fig. 4. 
Tremella , Sacc. Syll. Vol. vi, p. 780 (in part). 
Coryne , Sacc. Syll. Vol. ym, p. 641 (in part). 
During the gonidial stage the structure is identical with that of the 
form-genus Tubercularia , the stem is often more elongated than in the 
last-named genus, but in Dacryopsis nuda even this unimportant differ¬ 
ence disappears. The basidia and spores closely resemble those met 
with in Dacryomyees, to which genus the present is closely allied, differ¬ 
ing in the structure of the stem and in the arrangement and form of the 
gonidiophores. 
The gonidial phase of Dacryopsis nuda is morphologically almost in¬ 
distinguishable from the form species known as Tubercularia vulgaris, 
Tode, but it is well known that the latter is the gonidial condition of 
the ascigerous fungus called Nectria cinnabarina , Fr., hence it is seen 
that two structures almost indistinguishable in the gonidial form may 
be conditions of ascomycetous and basidiomycetous fungi, respectively. 
Again, it is known that the gonidial condition of various species of 
Nectria belongs to such morphologically distinct form genera as Tuber¬ 
cularia, Fusarium, Volutella, etc., consequently it appears to beat least 
indiscreet to assume, much more to assert, that because a gonidial form 
presenting certain morphological features has been clearly proved to 
be a condition of some higher fungus belonging to a given genus that 
