346 TEEMELLINI. 



1019. Tremella xnorifoxmis. Berli, " Mulberry Tremella." 



Conglobated, sinuatecl, mulberry-black, opaque, firm. — Berk. 

 Outl.p. 287. Eng. Bot. Ed. ii. t. 2451. Price^f. 21 ? Dacrymyces 

 moriformis. Fr.Epicr.p.h^2. Eng.El. y. p. 21d. 



On the ground. Rare. [Low. Carolina.] 



Sessile in roundish or oblong tumid, sinuous masses of various size, not 

 unlike mulberries in appearance, except being coal black. Internally of a 

 deep rich purple, substance fleshy, attached by strong central roots. When 

 dried between paper a violet stain is communicated to whatever the plant 

 touches.— *S'//i(VA. 



1020. Tremella albida. Hud, « Whitish Tremella." 



Expanded, tough, undulated, even, -or somewhat gyrose, 

 pruinose, whitish, at length brownish. — Fr.Epicr.p. 589. Eng. 

 Bot. t. 1111. Bull. t. 386, f. A. Eng.Fl.Y.p.216. Berk. Outl.p. 

 287. Price, f. 50. Bon. t. UJ. 246. 



On dead branches. Common. [United States.] 



It bursts through cracks in the bark, and then spreads itself in horizontal 

 or clustered, rounded obtuse, scalloped masses, white, semi-pellucid, ex- 

 tremely gelatinous, and tender when young, afterwards turning yellowish. — 

 Smith. 



1021. Trexnella intuznescens. Sow. " Contorted Tremella." 



Subcjespitose, rounded or conglomerate, soft, brown, when dry 

 blackish-brown, obsoletely punctuate, somewhat tortuous and 

 lobed. — Fr. Epicr.p. 589. Berk. Outl.p. 288. Eng. Bot. Ed. ii. 

 ^. 1870. Eng.Fl.Y.p.2ll. 



On trunks of fallen trees. Apethorpe. [United States.] 



In perfection in very wet weather only, when it forms numerous soft and 

 pulpy clusters, twisted and tumid, like the intestines of some animal, of a 

 darkish dull brown, but with a shining surface, obscurely dotted ; inside 

 paler and almost Avhite, except that when cut longitudinally brown vertical 

 streaks are discernible near the surface. — <SVrt.i<A. 



1022. Tremella indecorata. Somm. "Dingy Tremella." 



Sessile, rounded, moist, convex, plicate, opaque, blark-brown, 

 dingy. — Fr. Epicr.p. 589. Kl. exs. no. 822. Ann. N.H. no. 725, 

 810*. Berk. Outl.p. 283. 



On willows. Mossburnford. 



Dark pitchy brown when dry, dirty cinereous when swoUen with moisture. 

 ^M. J. B. 



