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cerebriform on the surface as is the case in several species of T'remel- 
linaceae. The specimens from Michener are undoubtedly the same 
as the fungus collected at Lake Dunmore. 
Of specimens of T. fuciformis Berk. there is in Herb. Curtis one 
from Cuba marked “Ad lign. corrump. Sept. C. Wright (233). This 
specimen has a certain general resemblance to C. reticulatum, but a 
microscopic examination shows that it is a much thinner and more 
delicate species; the hyphae are not closely compacted and the hy- 
menium is looser and thinner. Furthermore, although the specimen 
is by no means all that could be desired, one can see that the tips are 
not cylindrical-tapering and fimbriate as in C. reticulatum, but com- 
planate and, as was remarked by Berkeley in the original description, 
recall in their habit species of Chondrus. The expression, flabelli- 
formi-dilatata, used by Berkeley does not apply certainly to our plant. 
There have been few references in mycological literature to Corti- 
cium tremellinum since its original publication. In Grevillea 20, 
13, Sept. 1891, the var. reticulatum is called by Cooke Corticium 
reticulatum; the original name, C. tremellinwm and its variety, are 
retained in Saccardo’s Sylloge 6, 632, 1888, and by Massee in Jour. 
Linn. Soc. 27, 146, 1890, and O. Kuntze in Rev. Gen. Plant. 2, 873, 
1891 changed the name to Terena tremellina. References to Тте- 
mella fuciformis are more numerous. There may be mentioned here 
Patouillard, Essai Taxonomique 21, Duss, Champignons Guadeloupe 
et Martinique 9, and Hennings, Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenburg, 40, 
113, 1898 where the species is reported as occurring in hot houses at 
the Botanical Garden of Berlin. A. Moeller in Protobasidiomyceten 
115 et seq., 1895, gives a detailed account of T. fucijormis found by 
him in Brazil. Although he had been unable to examine a type 
specimen of the species, there can be no reasonable doubt that the 
fungus studied by him was the true T. fuciformis. He mentions the 
great resemblance in habit to Chondrus and his photograph, PI. I, 
f. 5, shows that it is not our plant. Apparently also the spores are 
ovoid and not of the same shape as in C. reticulatum. 
In North America T. fuciformis has Been reported by Atkinson, 
Mushrooms, 206, f. 207, 1901, by R. Campbell, Canadian Ree. Sci. 
9, 98, 1903, and by Brown and Fernekes, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc. 
2, 55, 1902. Whether the species referred to by the writers above 
named is the T. fuciformis of South America and the West Indies or 
the C. reticulatum of Pennsylvania and Vermont I am not at present 
