GYROCEPHALUS — TREMELLODON. 65 



Naematelia virescens. Corda. 



Small, subgelatiuous, sessile, suborbicular, depressed, con- 

 torted, dingy green ; spores elliptical, apiculate, 18 X 11 /u. 



Naematelia virescens, Corda, Icon. iii. f. 90 ; Cke,, Hdbk., 

 p. 350. 



On In-anches of furze, &c. About i in, across, but size 

 variable, greenish. 



GYROCEPHALUS. Pers. (f. 10, p. 56.) 



Sporophore erect, substipitate, subspathulate, irregular, 

 tremelloso-cartilaginous : basidia globose, soon longitudinally 

 and crucially septate, sterigmata 2 or 4, elongated, thick ; 

 ^pores ovate-pirifurm, continuous, not producing sporidiola 

 on germination so far as is known. 



Gyrocephalus, Pers., Mem. Soc. Linn., Paris, iii., p. 77 

 (1824) : Sacc. Syll. vi. p. 795. 



Distinguished by being more or less distinctly stipitate, 

 sporophore flattened, spathulate, hymenium confined to one 

 surface only. 



Gyrocephalus rufus. Jacq. (fig. 10, p. 56.) 



Erect, cartilagineo-gelatinous, stem very variable in length, 

 subspathulate, or variously contorted or lobed ; orange with 

 a rosy tinge ; hymenium inferior, very smooth ; spores 

 elliptical, apiculate at the base, 12-15 x 8-10 /a. 



Gyrocephalus rufus, Jacq. Misc. 1, p. 143, t. 14. 



Guepinia helvelloides. Fries, Hyiu. Eur., p. 697. 



On the ground, also on fragments of wood, &c. Ex- 

 ceedingly variable, stem elongated or almost wanting ; pileus 

 spathulate, variously contorted, entire or lobed. One inch or 

 more in height. 



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TREMELLODON. Pers. (figs. 4-5, p. 48.) 



Gelatinous ; pileate ; hymenium inferior, covered with 

 acute gelatinous spines ; basidia subglobose, cruciately 

 divided, producing four stout, elongated sterigmata, spores 

 subglobose, continuous. 



Tremellodon, Pers., Myc. Eur. ii. p. 172 ; Stev., Brit. Fung., 

 p. 247. 



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