60 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Ulocolla saccharma, Brefeld. 

 Exidia saccharina, Cke., Hdbk., p. 349. 

 On fallen pine-trunks. The colour of crystallized sugar 

 when young, afterwards with a fulvous tinge. 



Ulocolla foliacea. Bref. 



Tufted and much lobed and waved, segments thin, 

 springing from a plicate base ; colour variable, diaphanous, 

 pinkish-cinnamon, rarely deep brown or even violet ; spores 

 reniform, 10-12 X 5-6 /a; conidia similar to the spores. 



Ulocolla foliacea, Brefeld. 



Tremella foliacea, Cke., Hdbk., p. 345. 



On stumps of pine and other trees, reaching to 1-2 inches 

 diameter. 



TREMELLA. Dill, (emended), (figs. 14, 15, p. 56.) 



Gelatinous, tremelloid, immarginate, generally smooth 

 (i.e. not papillose) ; basidia globose, longitudinally cruciately 

 (quadripartite, each quadrant of the basidium elongating 

 into a long, stout sterigma ; spores snbglobose, continuous ; 

 on germination a tube is formed that is covered with 

 broadly elliptical sporidiola ; conidia snbglobose, racemose 

 in sporiferous conceptacles in the sporophore, have occurred 

 in some species. 



Tremella, Dill., Hist. Muse, p. 41 ; Sacc. Syll. vi. p. 780. 



Sect. I. Mesenteriformes. 



Cartilagineo-gelatinous, lobes large, foliaceous, naked 

 (i.e. not pruinose with the spores). 



Tremella fimbriata. Pers. 



Very soft and gelatinous, tufted, erect, lobes flaccid, 

 corrugated, margins cut, blackish-olive, spores subpyriform. 



Tremella fimhriata, Persoon, Obs. 2, p. 97 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 344. 



On dead branches. Two to three inches high audthe 

 same in diameter when well developed. Easily recognised 

 by its dark colour. 



Tremella frondosa. Fries. 

 Gelatinous, tufted, large; lobes undulate and contorted. 



