34 MM. L. R. AND C. TULASNE ON THE TREMELLINEOUS FUNGI 
After having attentively examined many ZTremelle, we cannot 
help suspecting that M. Fuckel is mistaken in imagining that 
Tremella foliacea Pers. is a conidiophorous form of Bulgaria in- 
quinans Fr.* Such an opinion, indeed, would lead one to affirm 
that this so-called Zremella foliacea is not a genuine Tremella at 
all, if M. Fuckel’s plant is the same as that described by Persoon ; 
but, on the other hand, we can hardly suppose that the epithet 
foliacea would have been applied to the genuine conidiophorous 
Bulgaria inquinans, such as we have seen and described it in the 
‘Annales des Sciences.’ 
We will here mention a peculiar Zremella which grows as a 
parasite on Spheria strumella Fr., and which, most probably on 
account of this, has acquired its strange name, although nobody, 
as far as we know, has ever remarked the habitual presence of 
this parasite on the old pulvinuli of the Spheria above mentioned. 
We do not mean to say that parasitic Tremelle have never been 
mentioned ; but several of those which have been so called seem 
rather of an ambiguous nature. No such doubt can exist about 
our Zremella neglecta; for by its organization it resembles com- 
pletely T. frondosa and T. albida. However, we must confess that 
we have never as yet seen its globose or quadripartite basidia 
producing sporophorous spicules. This gap will certainly be filled 
up some day, and there is therefore no reason why we should not 
give the following description of the new fungus :— 
TREMELLA NEGLECTAT, pulvinulis natura de more gelatinosis, glo- 
bosis, perexiguis, sordide albidis, strato mucoso crasso superne vestitis; 
basidiis (supra dicto strato retectis) breviter pedicellatis, globosis aut 
nonnihil pyriformibus, primum integris et obtusissimis, postea autem 
ad basim usque quadripartitis, divisuris tandem plus minus divaricatis, 
quadantenus sursum acutatis et verisimiliter in sterigma sporophorum 
singulatim productis. 
Parasitatur hiemali tempore in cespitibus obsoletis Spherie strumelle 
ribicole cujus rostris porrectis vulgo asperatur; quum autem am- 
plius crevit, eadem rostra immersa aut plus minus latitantia arcte 
fovet. 
Sexcenties vidimus in ramis et sarmentis emortuis Ribis rubri sylvestris 
circa Cadvillam Versaliorum, locis sylvarum opacis udisque. 
Fungillus, nisi adoleverit et jove pluvio favente intumuerit, «egre dignos- 
citur, szepissime vero latens adest ; semper matricem suam quasi stru- 
mosam efficere videtur. Hujusce conceptacula solita, non obstante 
Tremella insita, rite informantur, paucas autem sporas, ni fallimur, 
pleraque maturare valent. 
* See Fuckel, Symb. Mycol. p. 286. 
