Tremellodon 



HYDNACE/E 



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Mr. Fred. Currey {Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. v. p. 181, 1861) was 

 the first to call attention to the cloven basidia in this species, and 

 to point out the resemblance in the fruit to some of the Tremellinacece. 

 Mr. George Massee {British Fungus Flora, vol. 1. p. 65) has placed 

 Tremellodon at the end of the Tremellinacece, but the nature of the 

 basidium and sterigmata is an insufficient reason for the removal, 

 and if adopted many other removals would have to be made. 



1746. T. gelatinosum Fr. (from the gelatinous substance) a b c. 

 Wholly translucent, grey-white. 

 P. fan-shaped, fleshy, dimidiate, substipitate, white-frosted with 



shining particles. St. when present, white-frosted above. 

 Taste pleasant. Rotten pine, sawdust ; rare. Sept.-Nov. 3! x l\ in. 



LXXII. SISTOTREMA Pers. 



(From the irregular arrangement of the spines and their interstices, 

 as if displaced ; Gr. seistos, shaken, trema, a pore.) 



Fileus fleshy, irregular or dimidiate. Hymenium inferior. Teeth 

 resembling broken, jagged gills, not radiate, readily separating from 



Fig. 87. — a, section of Sistotreiini confluens Pers., one-half natural 

 size ; b, teeth of ditto, X 3. 



the hymenophore. Stem central, excentric, flattened or almost 

 obsolete. Basidia 4-spored. (Fig. 87.) 



Closely allied to Irpex, but the latter is not fleshy and is usually 

 sessile or resupinate and seldom terrestrial. 



1747. S. confluens Pers. (from the confluent habit) a b c. Wholly 



white or whitish, becoming pale yellowish or brownish. 



P. horizontal, subdepressed, villous. St. attenuate downwards. 



Sp. decurrent. 



Gregarious. On the ground, investing sticks, leaves, moss, grass, etc., under 

 pines ; uncommon. Sept.-Nov. Group 2g x if in. 



2 C 



