448 



TREMELLINACE/E 



Exidia 



2005. E. recisa Fr. (from its appearance as if cut back ; recido, to 



cut short) a b c. 

 Very soft, warm yellow-brownish or brownish-vinous. Disc 



truncato-plane, ribbed, papillose, somewhat repand, rough with 



dots beneath. St. very short excentric. 

 Branches, willow, poplar, plum ; common. Sept. -Dec. \\ in. 



b. Spicularice. 



2006. E. glandulosa Fr. (from the glandular hymenium) a b c. 

 Effused, thick, somewhat plane, undulate, sometimes pendulous, 



and 8 to 10 inches long, the upper hymenial surface papillose 

 and somewhat veined, the lower surface next to the matrix 

 crape-like to the touch and lustreless, black, blackish, purple- 

 slate or olive-blackish. 



Tasteless. Branches, oak, willow, Ailanthus, lime, alder, walnut. 

 Aug. -Mar. 5^ in. When young somewhat cup-shaped and like one of 

 the Peziza or Bulgaria inqninans in appearance. Translucent when quite 

 fresh. " Witch's Butter." 



2007. E. albida Bref. (from the whitish colour ; albns, dead white) 



a b c. 

 Tough, undulate, subgyrose, pruinose, white or faintly shaded 



ivory or lavender. 

 Branches, birch, beech, alder, pine, hawthorn. Sept. -May. ij in. 



C. ULOCOLLA Bref. 



(From its glue-like consistency and appearance ; 

 Gr. oulos, shaggy, kolla, glue.) 



Sporophore convex, pulvinate, gyrose, cerebriform, gelatinous, 

 rather large. Basidia globose, soon longitudinally quadri-partite. 



Fig. 115. A, Ulocolla saccharins. Bref. One-half natural size. 

 B, basidia and spores ; c, _ spores germinating and producing 

 sporidiola ; D, sporidiola germinating. X 500. 



