The _long, club-shaped basidia_ bear _two tapering sterigmata_, which
develope remarkably large basidiospores (Fig. 162 II, XI) and form
_gymnocarpic_ fruit-bodies with hymenium. 1 order:
Order 1. =Dacryomycetaceæ.= This order comprises 4 genera of which the
first two develope the hymenium on the whole surface of the fruit-body,
but the two last only on its apex.
_Dacryomyces_: the folded, gelatinous, _Tremella_-like
fruit-bodies break out in winter on dried wood (hedges) in
the form of red or yellow drops. _D. deliquescens_ is very
common (Fig. 121). The following genera have cartilaginous
fruit-bodies.--_Calocera_ (Fig. 162), with club-like, simple,
or branched, _Clavaria_-like, fruit-bodies; the orange coloured
fruit-bodies of _C. viscosa_ grow aggregated together on the
wood of Conifers.--_Guepinia_ resembles a _Peziza_, and has
the hymenium only on the hollow upper surface.--_Dacryomitra_
resembles a _Mitrula_ (Fig. 162).