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1015. Tremella foliacea. P. " Foliaceous Tremella." 



Ceespitose, flaccid, even, diajDlianons, undulated, flesli coloured 

 cinnamon; base plicate ; spores subelliptic. — Bull. t. 4:06, f. A. 

 a. Berh. Outl.p. 287. T.ferruginea^Eng. Bot. 2nd Ed. t. 1452. 

 Eng. Fl. v. p. 215. Ann. N.H. no. 13. 



On old stumps. [United States.] 



Very variable in colour, sometimes deep red-brown and sometimes violet. 

 *' Pliable and tender, becoming thin, shrivelled and shapeless when dry, re- 

 viving, though imperfectly, on the re-applicalion of moisture; segments 

 obtuse, lobed, and waved ; surface finely pubescent or granulated ; the gran- 

 ulations pale, giving the plant a velvet-like gloss, with brown, irregular 

 specks, perhaps of a fructification among them." — Eng. Bot. 



1016. Tremella lutescens. Fr. " Yellowish Tremella," 



Caespitose, tremulous, undulato-gyrose, white, then yellowish; 

 lobes crowded, entire. — Fr. Epicr.p. 588. Pers. Ic. ^* Desc. i. 8,/. 

 9. Bull. ^.406, CD. t. 499,/: U.V. Berk. Outl.p. 287. Price./. 

 44. Bisch.f. 3403. Bail. t. 22. 



On old stumps. [United States.] 



Sect. 2. Cerehrince. 



1017. Tremella mesenterica. Retz. " Orange Tremella." 



Expanded, ascending, somewhat tough, plicato-undulate, 

 smooth, orange. — Fr. Epicr.p. 588. Jacq. Misc.i. t. 13. Schceff. 

 ^.168. Eng. Bot. 2nd Ed. t. 709. Bull. 1. 17 4.. Huss.i.t.27. Ann. 

 Sc. Nat. {1863), xix.t.U. Eng. Fl.Y.p.216. Berk. Outl.p. 2S7. 

 Card. Chron. (lS60),p. 963 Jg. Price,/. 26. Bot. Zeit. 1859, t. 

 11,/. 22. 



On sticks in woods, &c. Common. [United States.] 



Varying considerably in size and form, sometimes quite flat and thin, but 

 generally ascending and strongly lobed and plicate; when full grown con- 

 sisting of branched, easily discernible filaments, surrounded by a dense 

 stratum of spores. (Fig. 94.) 



1018. Tremella vesicaria. Bidl. " Bladdery Tremella." 



Firm, bladdery, much waved and wrinkled, erect, pallid, very 

 viscid within ; sporophores globose; spores broad, oblong. — 

 Bull. t. 427, f. 3. Berh. Outl.p. 287. Eng. Bot. Ed. ii. t. 2451. 

 Ann. N.H. no. 724. 



On the ground. Rare. [Pennsylvania.] 



Spores -0004 X "00025 in. 



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