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TREMELLINACEiE 



Tr em diet 



2024. T. elavata Pers. (from its somewhat clavate shape) a. 



Incrassate, fleshy-red, becoming black at base. 



Solitary, simple or connate. Branches. Average size of single growth 

 f X J in. Possibly a form of T. sarcoides With., and, if so, a condition of 

 Ombrophila sarcoides Jacq., one of the Discomycetes. 



[T. sarcoides With, is an early condition of Ombrophila scarcoides Jacq. 

 T. foliicola Fuck, is not a Tremella ; it forms small gelatinous tufts or 

 spots on the leaves of Rubus fricticosus in company with Phragmidium . 

 T. brassiccEcola B. & Br. is probably a form of Hypocrea rufa Fr. ; it 

 grows on and in cabbage stumps.] 



CII. NjEMATELIA Fr. 



(From the gelatinous substance which surrounds the nucleus ; 

 Gr. naima, gelatine, ei/eo, to roll or wrap round.) 



Subgelatinous, firm, convex, with a firm fleshy central solid 

 portion called the nucleus, not shrivelling when dry. Basidia 

 subglobose, longitudinally quadripartite. Spores broadly elliptical, 

 continuous. (Fig. 117.) 



Fig. 117. — A, b, Ncpmatelia encephala Fr., entire and in section. 

 One-half natural size, c, basidium with surface view, b, and spores ; 

 d, spore germinating and producing sporidiola. X 500. 



Readily distinguished by the presence of the central solid 

 nucleus, which is composed of interwoven hyphae and covered with 

 a thick gelatinous spore-bearing stratum. Growing on wood, 

 sometimes on moss, rarely terrestrial. Species 2025 — 2028 



2025. N. encephala Fr. (from the contained nucleus; Gr. en, 



within, kephale, the head) a b c. 



Somewhat sessile, pulvinate, plicato-rugose, pallid flesh-colour, 



salmon or salmon-whitish, nucleus hard, large, white. 



Solitary to connate. Branches, rails, pine, larch ; frequent. Sept. -Mar. 

 i in. Connate for 4 in. 



