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TREMELLINACE^E 



Femsjonia 



globose. Spores oblong, curved, becoming septate, at first colourless, 

 then orange-brown. (Fig. 120.) 



Growing on wood, erumpent, brightly coloured. 



Fig. 120. — a, b, Femsjonia luteoalba Fr., entire and in section One-half 

 natural size, c, basidia and spores ; d, detached spores, the mature spores 

 are septate. X 500. e, Guepinia Femsjoniava Olsen. Three spores, one 

 germinating and producing sporidiola. X 500. 



2036a. F. luteoalba Fr. (from the yellow disc and white exterior ; 

 luteus, yellow, albus, white) a b. 

 At first cup-shaped, becoming disc-shaped and plane, at length 

 convex and folded, disc bright brassy-yellow, with a narrow 

 white marg., under surface at first white-tomentose to brassy- 

 white, the tomentum soon passing away, rooting, erumpent. 



Branches, birch, oak. Sept. § in. in diam. Looks like 2035 on a large 

 scale. Guepinia Femsjoniana Olsen is perhaps the same as this. 



CV. GUEPINIA Fr. 



(After Jean Pierre Guepin.) 



Unequally cup-shaped, substipitate, versiform, cartilagineo- 

 gelatinous, the two surfaces diverse in structure. Hymenium uni- 

 lateral. Basidia linear, deeply bifurcate. Spores curved. Chains of 

 conidia produced on the tips of hyphse springing from the surface 

 opposed to the hymenium. (Fig. 121.) Species 2037, 2038 



