Fruit-body lacking a well-developed stem, either reduced to a small lobe or entirely absent 2 2. Fruit-body flattened or disc-shaped, often with warts or veins on the surface; spores more or less sausage-shaped _Exidia_ Fruit-body brain-like or with irregular bumps, sometimes lobed or irregular and encrusting 3 3. Fruit-body brain-like or with bumps or bosses; spores rounded or ovoid _Tremella_ Fruit-body encrusting woody or herbaceous material; spores ellipsoid _Sebacina_ =Dacrymycetales= (Basidia resembling the shape of a tuning-fork) 1. Fruit-body club-shaped or coral-like _Calocera_ Fruit-body top-shaped or with irregular bumps 2 2. Fruit-body top-shaped _Femsjonia_ Fruit-body cushion- or brain-like, or with irregular bumps _Dacrymyces_ ~Dacrymyces stillatus~ Nees ex Fries _Fruit-body_: 3-6 mm. _Description_: Fruit-body: cushion or brain-like, often irregular, lacking any evidence of stem, yellow or orange, gelatinous, covered entirely by spore-bearing tissue. Spore-print: yellowish. Spores: long, cylindrical or oblong, and slightly curved and 12-15 × 5-6 µm in size; they characteristically have 2 to 4 cross-walls dividing the interior of the spore (see below). Cystidia: absent. _Habitat_ & _Distribution_: Common on all sorts of old wood, particularly on fence-posts, wooden railway-sleepers and other worked timber outside, e.g. sides of summer-houses and garden sheds. It is also found on twigs and branches in woods and copses. _General Information_: This fungus is found throughout the year, but it is much more obvious under damp conditions when it is strongly gelatinised and very soft; when dry it almost disappears. The tissue bearing the basidia (perfect state) is yellow, when orange there is a predominance of asexually produced spores called arthrospores (conidia). _D. deliquescens_ is only another name for the same fungus. There are several species of _Dacrymyces_ with which _D. stillatus_ can be confused, but can only be separated with certainty by using a microscope. The Coral-spot fungus, frequently found in gardens, produces gelatinous, pink protuberances on wood especially that of sycamore, and may easily be mistaken for species of _Dacrymyces_. It consists entirely of asexually produced spores (conidia) of the Ascomycete _Nectria cinnabarina_. The perfect state appears late in the year as grouped, small, blood-red flask-shaped fruit-bodies containing envelopes of spores. It is quite unrelated to _Dacrymyces_.