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TEEMELLINI. 



Order VI. TREMELLINI. 



Whole plant gclatmous, with the exception occasionally of the 



nucleus. Sporophores large, simple or divided. Spicules elon- 

 gated into threads. — Berk. Outl.p.2^Q. 



Immarginate. Hymenium universal Tremella. 



Margined. Hymenium superior Exidia, 



Cap-shaped. Hymenium wrinkled Hirneola. 



Nucleus solid. Hymenium universal Nmmatelia. 



Homogeneous. Sporopliores clavate, bifurcate . . . Dacrymyces. 



Inflated. Hymenium smooth, then collapsed .... Apyrenium. 



Effused, thin, maculaeform Hymenula. 



Patellseform. Hymenium discoid Dltiola. 



Gen. 49. 



TREMELLA, Fr. 



Gelatinous, tremulous, im- 

 marginate. Hymenium not 

 papillate, surrounding the 

 whole of the fungus. — Be7'k. 

 OutLp.2S6. [Fig.U.) 



Fig. 94. 



Sect. 1. Mesenteriformes. 



1013. Tremella fimbriata. Pers. " Fringed Tremella." 



Csespitose, erect, corrugated, blackish-olive ; lobes flaccid ; 

 margin incised, undulato-fimbriate. — Fr. Epicr. p. 588. Bull. t. 

 272. Hoff/n.t.l,/.!. Eng. Fl.y.p.21b. Berk. Outl. p.2S6. 



On dead branches. Rare. 

 Of a soft, gelatinous consistence, almost watery within. 



1014. Tremella frondosa. Fr. " Large pale Tremella." 



C^espitose ; very large, even, pallid-yellow ; base j)licate ; 

 lobes gyroso-undulate. — Fr. Epicr. p. 588. Bull, i.499,/. T. Ann. 

 N.H. no. SIO. Berk. Outl. p. 2S7. 



At the base of living trees. Rare. "Wothorpe, 

 When fresh of a peculiar pale pinkish-yellow, often attaining a very large 



size* 



