448 



TREMELLINACE^E 



Exidia 



2005. E. reeisa 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. i\ in. 



b. Spicularice. 



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

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



and 8 to io 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 Pezizce or Bulgaria inquinans in appearance. Translucent when quite 

 fresh. "Witch's Butter." 



2007. E. albida Bref. (from the whitish colour ; a/bus, dead white) 



a b c. 

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



ivory or lavender. 

 Branches, birch, beech, alder, pine, hawthorn. Sept. -May. 1^ in. 



C. UL0C0LLA Bref. 



(From its glue-like consistency and appearance ; 

 Gr. onloS) shaggy, kolla, glue.) 



Sporophore convex, pulvinate, gyrose, cerebriform, gelatinous, 

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



Fig. 115. — a, Ulocolla saccharina Bref. One-half natural size. 

 b, basidia and spores ; c, spores germinating and producing 

 sporidiola ; d, sporidiola germinating. X 500. 



