1 86 TREMELLINE^. 



T. violacea. Morgan. 

 Effused in form of a beautiful violet gelatinous mass. 

 Common on recently cut maple stumps. 



Genus II. BXIDIA. Fr. 



Gelatinous, margined, fertile above, barren below. 



:^. glaudulosa. Fr. Witches' Butter. 



Blackish, flattened, undulated, soft at first and when moist, 

 becoming film-like when dry. 



On dead oak branches all through the Valley. 



Genus III. HIRNBOI^A. Fr. 



Gelatinous, cup-shaped, horney when dry. Hymenium 

 wrinkled, without papillae, outer surface velvety. 



H. Auricula- Judge. Jews' Ears. 

 Gelatinous, concave, lobed, thin, tomentose beneath, 

 brownish, when covered with the white spores cinereous. 



Common on decayed logs. When growing from the side of a trunk 

 the lobes have the appearance of a human ear. 



Genus IV. GUEPINIA. 



Gelatinous, inclining to cartilaginous, free, different on the 

 two sides, variable in form, substipitate. Hymenium confined 

 to one side. 



